Cy van der Spuy | Senior Product Designer

Hey I'm Cy,

a Senior Product Designer that cares more about impact than pixels.

I’m based in sunny Cape Town,
South Africa.

Open to relocation, hybrid, and remote work

I use
human-centred design to untangle complex problems.

Adaptive problem-solver

Systems thinker

Designing for joy

Cross-functional collaborator

Experience in

Telcos, NPOs, B2B, and B2C

Using ML and AI for fast insights and protyping

No code front-end development with AI

7 years in product design

Recent highlights

Tackling youth unemployment through better data

Role: End to end design lead

Design value: Solving business funding challenges by decluttering task flows

Building a design system for scale & web accessibility

Role: End to end design lead

Design value: Saves time shipping products and creates consistent brand experience across features

◉ In progress

Lightning collaboration with AI prototyping

Role: End to end design lead

Design value: Using machine learning design tools to design at scale faster
*In depth case study

Design is powerful. It helps us spot and solve for complex problems giving us more time to be human ⎯ Having fun, growing, and spending time with loved ones.

If I'm not designing I'm out in the ocean, my local art gallery, or walking my cat Ramona around my street.