Jacques Pretorius
Director at Jacques Pretorius Design Limited
Greater Aberdeen Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJacques Pretorius is a design-focused director with 8+ years leading UX/UI initiatives across startups, enterprise SaaS and hardware-integrated products. He founded Jacques Pretorius Design Ltd. to deliver human-centered interfaces and has acted as Design Director for IoT launches, threat-intel platforms and portal redesigns that measurably improved user satisfaction and productivity. His background spans FinTech and HealthTech integrations at Arria NLG—where he combined NLG-powered SaaS with practical design systems—and cross-disciplinary work with data scientists, linguists and engineers. Comfortable bridging visual craft and technical constraints, Jacques pairs hands-on prototyping in Figma/Adobe with experience in HTML/CSS, React and embedded platforms like Raspberry Pi. He also brings an unusual mix of fine-art practice and large-scale project delivery, from gallery exhibitions to Kickstarter hardware campaigns, which informs his emphasis on brand-led yet pragmatic product experiences. Based in Aberdeen, he mentors designers and leads cross-functional teams to turn complex requirements into elegant, usable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Graphic Design, BA Graphic Design at University of the Witwatersrand
Afrikaans, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jcqsprtrs/raspbpi
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:38 pushes, 6 branches in 25 days
jcqsprtrs/rockwell
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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