Brent Nygaard
Product Designer Owner at Freelance Spreadsheets
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Nygaard is an independent product designer and founder based in Cape Town with 11 years of multidisciplinary design experience focused on human-centred UI and brand work. As owner of Brent Nygaard Design he runs client discovery workshops, crafts wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes, and builds design systems that help developers ship consistent, responsive interfaces. He started his career in brand identity and web work at Engage Brandcraft, which informs his strong visual instincts and holistic approach to product experiences. Brent also writes a regular newsletter about UI/UX to help software creators level up their design practice and recently launched Freelance Spreadsheets to explore practical tools for independent operators. He combines atomic-design rigor with a maker’s curiosity, often translating brand strategy into scalable component libraries. Notably, his freelance practice emphasizes pragmatic collaboration—turning discovery insights into design systems that reduce dev friction and improve user outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
Rondebosch Boys' High SchoolBA in Creative Brand Communications, Visual Communications, BA in Creative Brand Communications, Visual Communications at Vega The Brand Communications School
Github Skills (5)
to-do9
css5
javascript4
mission-control2
animate-on-scroll1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
halverson/teenytiny_TodoList
Nov 2014 - May 2021
Contributions:63 commits, 6 PRs, 34 pushes in 6 years 6 months
cssjavascriptto-doto-do-list-appto-do-list
halverson/MyEleventyStarter
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Very barebones eleventy starter site using Stylus.
Contributions:9 PRs, 9 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 2 months
styluseleventycssbareboneseleventy-starter
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