Lindie Botes PORTFOLIO 2018/19
Hello!
My name is Lindie.
I’m a multidisciplinary designer who creates impactful, user-centered and delightful products and graphics.
01 | A B O U T
Lindie Botes Resume (please email lindie-b@hotmail.com for a full CV) 1994/08/04
+27 63 743 4433
Education 2013
— 2016
behance.net/lindiebee
Work experience JA N 2 0 1 7
— PRESENT
University of Pretoria
Service designer, Praekelt Consulting
BA Information Design Hons. (Cum Laude)
User testing and research, app wireframing, prototyping and design, client presentations and user testing.
Skills & capabilities S O F T WA R E
Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Zeplin, InVision, Keynote, Google Suite, Premiere Pro, Microsoft Office, Wagtail CMS, basic Cinema 4D and Fontlab capabilities
CO U R S E S
Information Design Imaging and Visualization Visual Culture Studies & Art History Marketing and Consumer Studies
FEB 2018
Top Information Design Student Award 2 0 1 6 Top Illustration Student Award 2 0 1 4 Golden Key International Honors society member
2012
2015, 2016, 2017
Exhibitions & contests
— PRESENT
Lecturer & thesis supervisor, University of Pretoria Multilingual thesis supervising and support; guest lecturer of UI/UX fundamentals to 3rd year students — 2016
Co-founder, Wikitongues Social media, videography, cross-cultural relations DEC 2015 (1 MONTH)
Graphic design intern, Landor Associates Tokyo Packaging design, idea generation, research, presentations
E X H I B I TO R
Golden Bee Int’l Biennale of Graphic Design 2 0 1 7 INDEF Incheon Design Fair 2 0 1 7 Nelson Mandela art exhibition at Duncan Yard 2 0 1 2 PHSG Art Exhibition; Overall body of work award 2017
JUNE 2015 (3 WEEKS)
Graphic Design Festival Scotland 2 0 1 4 Morisawa Type Design Competition 2017
Graphic design, branding, illustration, typography UI/UX design and research Feersum Engine Chatbot programming Basic HTML & CSS Video editing, motion graphics Public speaking, workshop running Data consolidation and presentation LANGUAGES
English, Afrikaans, Korean PROFICIENT: Japanese (N3), French INTERMEDIATE: Mandarin Chinese BEGINNER: Malay, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Arabic FLUENT:
Graphic design intern, COMPOUND.inc Tokyo Packaging and logo design, meeting minutes 2013
FINALIST
SKILLS
Hobbies
— PRESENT
lindiebotes.com
Languages, film photography, painting, hiking, badminton
Language tutor, YouTuber, brand partner for Language brands 02 | R E S U M E
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UI/UX design
UI/UX DESIGN BRANDING & PACKAGING PHOTOGRAPHY GRAPHICS & ILLUSTRATION
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PREFERENTAL REBRAND & APP/WEB DESIGN
02 MTN GROUP APP DESIGNS
03 | CO N TE N TS
Preferental Rebrand, website and app design Visual design: Lindie Botes
2017
Illustration: Amy Harrisson
Creative direction: Rebecca Riley
Intern designer: Rudo Zijena
ABOUT
Preferental (previously MyRentr) is a startup that manages the relationship between landlords renters. They approached us for guidance on rebranding, UX and app development. We workshopped with the client and what follows is a brand new logo, website and app interface.
Old MyRentr logo
Rebranded logo
0 4 | U I / UX D E S I G N
0 5 | U I / UX D E S I G N
MTN Group Self-service & Mobile Money app designs Creative direction: Kgosi Kekana UX lead: Sid Sooklal
2018
Lead designer: Lindie Botes
Junior designer: Amy Harrison
PROBLEM
Users can purchase data based on price, size or validity, a function previously unavailable
MTN Group is a mobile provider operating in 22 countries. MTN has a self-service and a Mobile Money app, but users complain about a complicated experience and lack of design consistency within the countries. G OA L
Easy switch to Mobile Money app
Create a single design system for both apps, and through improved usability and design, increase app adoption, retention and user satisfaction.
Tooltips for new users
PROCESS
User research was done in 5 countries, which informed pain points, personas, user needs and journeys. Regular prototype testing and iteration resulted in a user-first design solution.
Dynamic content tiles change according to tasks the user performs the most
0 6 | U I / UX D E S I G N
R E S U LT S
80%
70%
62%
25%
improvement of speed of
improvement in the interpretation
quicker to pay utility bills on
improvement in time taken
buying airtime or data on
and clarity of information in
Mobile Money in comparison
to locate and view usage
the self-service app
financial statements
to the previous app
balance summary
07 | U I / UX D E S I G N
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Branding & editorial 01 FERO MAGAZINE
UI/UX DESIGN BRANDING & EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY GRAPHIC & ILLUSTRATION
02 LOGO DESIGNS 03 ISTD NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 04 SUSU TEA PACKAGING
0 8 | CO N T E N TS
Fero Magazine Branding and editorial design
2017
Editor & executive director: Alain Munga
ABOUT
Fero is a magazine about people in innovation and design. As the sole designer and art director on the magazine, I designed the logo, magazine cover and pages. The style is minimal and clean, as to give attention to the content and photography.
0 9 | E D I TO R I A L D E S I G N
Logo design Various logo designs
2015 to 2017
ABOUT
A collection of logos for commissions, personal work and university projects.
11 | LO G O D E S I G N
SUSU corn & barley tea Packaging design & 3D render
2016
ABOUT
SUSU is a tea brand selling corn and barley tea (fictional). The minimalist glass bottle design and geometric design targets a youthful market, and helps save the environment because all the materials are recyclable! I used the Chinese character for “tea” as a part of the logo design. The name Susu comes from the Korean “oksusu”, meaning corn.
12 | PAC KAG I N G D E S I G N
Country of peace International Society of Typographic Design Student Brief
2016
For the 2016 International Society of Typographic Design brief, I selected the topic about the Nobel Prize. I chose to shine a spotlight on the four South African Nobel Peace Prize laureates. Their speeches are placed into a booklet and data gathered from speech analysis is depicted in the form of an infographic. With the concept of “sending peace to the world” and “South Africa, country of peace”, I created postcards and postage stamps as well.
13 | E D I TO R I A L D E S I G N
14 | E D I TO R I A L D E S I G N
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35mm film & digital collage
UI/UX DESIGN BRANDING & EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY GRAPHIC & ILLUSTRATION
01 35mm PHOTOGRAPHY 02 PHOTO COLLAGES
15 | CO N T E N TS
35mm film photography Taken with Minolta X-700 in Tokyo, Japan
2015 to 2017
16 | FI LM PH OTO G R A PH Y
Digital collage Some works exhibited at INDEF and Golden Bee Biennale of Graphic Design
2016
17 | D I G I TA L CO LLAG E
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Graphic & illustration 01 JAPANESE POSTER SERIES
UI/UX DESIGN BRANDING & EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY GRAPHIC & ILLUSTRATION
02 DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION 03 KOREAN POSTER SERIES
18 | CO N T E N TS
One poster a day Self-initiated Japanese poster series
August 2017
For one month, I made one poster each day in Japanese. The goal was to explore layout, colour and digital type in a different language and style. Four posters passed the first round of judging at the Scottish Graphic Design Fair in 2017.
19 | POST E R D E S I G N
Digital illustration Illustrations for personal work and clients
2017 to 2018
21 | I LLU STR AT I O N
Korean posters Self-initiated poster series
2017 to 2018
I created these posters as a visual celebration of Korean typography, phrases and design.
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