Francois Brill

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Good Morning!

I'm an all-hands-on-deck product interface designer. I thrive when I have the opportunity to create something that is simple, beautiful & easy to use. Before I show you my work, let me tell you a bit more about what I enjoy doing.

What I Do

UX Design
User Research, Brainstorm, Product Design, Interaction Design, IA.
UI Design
Interface Design, Visual Design, Animation, Branding, Design Systems.
Front-end Development
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, NextJS, Gatsby, WordPress, GraphQL, Firebase.
Creative Leadership
DesignOps, Team Mentorship, Presenting & Speaking, Design Culture evangelism.

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Client Work

Creating well thought out experiences with pixel perfect user interface execution for clients is how I spend most of my time. Below are some of the projects I am most proud of.

Building a custom eCommerce experience to get you the best bed

The Mattress Warehouse is a long standing household name for buying the best quality beds for the best prices online in South Africa. Our challenge was to make it faster, more visually appealing and to create our own checkout funnel to control the process.

Development

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Helping Sales pull the Trigger on new Leads

Getting a single source of truth on customer data, stock availability and pricing are the most difficult challenges on a day-to-day basis. This is what we set out to fix in a 1 week design sprint process.

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Finding the right commercial property can be easy

5th Avenue are the leaders in the leasing and sales of commercial and industrial property. With some of the best stock inventory in the industry, we had to figure out how to show a potential customer the best options for their needs as fast as possible.

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Enquiry distribution system to get you on a cruise faster

The Cruiseabout EDS system aggregates all enquiries from the website into one concise platform. It’s sole purpose is to aid sales consultants in assisting their customers to book the best cruise holiday. All while we track it through the entire funnel to provide the necessary information back to the business with regards to performance and sales targets of consultants.

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A new take on Air Travel

Wunderlust Travel is a start-up taking the travel industry by storm. I helped establish the visual design and creative direction of the product in the marketplace. We had a number of visual explorations to get to the final look and feel that sets this service apart from the competition…

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Modernising on demand delivery

1Fetch is a Same day, on-demand, instant motorbike courier service. We helped them do a complete rebrand from branding, to a new website, mobile app and back office system to manage their drivers and orders…

Branding

Development

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Products I've Made

I've also been in the driver seat to create some products from scratch. I was responsible for the concept, UX & UI Design, Development, establishing product-market-fit as well as ensuring there is continuous growth and expansion of features on the roadmap.

Flexisite – Build your own Static site

Flexisite is a platform that builds headless static websites. It allows you to be up and running within minutes, something that used to take 4 weeks can take 4 hours with Flexisite in place.

Branding

Development

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Asset Management and process optimisation for Craft Breweries

KegTracker is a product I built from the ground up, from UX, UI to developing the whole solution (front-end and backend). I’m taking KegTracker through the typical product lifecycle and we’re continuously updating and expanding the feature set.

Development

Branding

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Articles

Writing original articles based on my perspective and experiences over the years has provided me with the opportunity to learn and grow. My articles have been features in publications like UX Collective and Muzli by InVision.

The start of a new era for Responsive Web Design

Francois Brill

7 min

22 October 2021

There is a new era of Responsive Web Design on the horizon. We get to a fundamental shift in how we build interfaces approximately once a decade, and we're just about at that point where the industry is being pushed through to the next phase to provide us with purpose built tools for the new challenges we face.

Define your process for building better products

Francois Brill

10 min

01 October 2021

Weather we build something from scratch or we keep adding to existing products, there’s a lot to consider. As the saying goes, we “eat the elephant — one bite at a time”. But how does that work, exactly? Surely some processes are more efficient, inclusive and repeatable than others.

Why would we care about user onboarding?

Francois Brill

7 min

21 January 2021

Craft your user onboarding experience to help users achieve their desired outcomes. Retention resonates from nailing this!

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Contact

I would love to hear from you, so please feel free to reach out and let's start a conversation.

f@brill.co.za +27825005099

Good Morning!

What I Do

UX Design

UI Design

Front-end Development

Creative Leadership

Client Work

Building a custom eCommerce experience to get you the best bed

Helping Sales pull the Trigger on new Leads

Finding the right commercial property can be easy

Enquiry distribution system to get you on a cruise faster

A new take on Air Travel

Modernising on demand delivery

Products I've Made

Flexisite – Build your own Static site

Asset Management and process optimisation for Craft Breweries

Articles

The start of a new era for Responsive Web Design

Define your process for building better products

Why would we care about user onboarding?

Why the fuss about “static” sites?

Building products with the right inputs, outputs and outcomes

Building products in an age of ambiguity

Finding your feet as a UX designer in the post-commodity design world

A new operating model to succeed in the digital world

(Asking the right) Questions is the starting point of Innovation

Rediscover your creativity by being playful

How Design Thinking impacts the way teams work

A Design Thinker’s Toolkit

Taking a user-centric approach to design for micro-moments in a multi device world

Contact