About Team & Product

iKhokha

South African fintech company that provides affordable, mobile-friendly business and payment solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

South African fintech company that provides affordable, mobile-friendly business and payment solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Quick Details

2023.

Design Systems Designer. 1x Case Study (Deck Available on Request).

1x Design System Lead (Myself), 2x Design Managers, 6x Engineering Managers, 12x Product & Web Designers

2021-2022.

Product Designer, Growth & Payment Experience (1 year +). 3x Case Studies (Deck Available on Request). 1x Design Lead (Myself), 2x Design Managers, 2x Researchers, Complaince Analysts, 1x Content Designer, 5x Product Managers, 40+ Engineers

How I Shaped The Product

As Design Systems Lead, I drove the XD to Figma migration for a team of 16+ designers, rebuilt the design system from v2 to v3, and refreshed the product's illustration language. As the sole designer on the systems team, I balanced auditing legacy components, discovering new use cases, and expanding the library, all while supporting rapid UX work across the product.

Impact

Led the full Adobe XD to Figma transition, eliminating slow design builds, unsynced components, and lack of real-time collaboration, unlocking a faster, more consistent design workflow across the team.


Rebuilt core components from scratch and through refactoring, prioritising components with the highest discrepancy rates across products. Established short and long-term milestones with Design and Engineering Managers to keep the system scaling strategically.


Overhauled the product's legacy illustration style, delivering a refreshed visual language that brought consistency and a new look and feel across the product.

Work Snippets

2 years after I left the iK team. I lived in CPT for a while, and I paid for my haircut at a shop using the iK terminal I contributed to.

Compilation of some illustration pieces I built & introduced to product system

Statics

Quick before and after

Illustration concepts for the our Card Machine

Final concepts for the Card Machine illustration

Initial sketches I made for some illustration ideas

Dev notes on page element, layout & styling for the new Auth screen

Dev notes on page element, layout & styling for Password field treatment

Navigation portal menu components

Spacing guide for Mobile

Hyperlink components

Pieces for the Dropdown component

Date & time picker

Typography system

MUI palette engineered to work for iK's

Stepper component pieces

Work Snippets

2 years after I left the iK team. I lived in CPT for a while, and I paid for my haircut at a shop using the iK terminal I contributed to.

Compilation of some illustration pieces I built & introduced to product system

Statics

Quick before and after

Illustration concepts for the our Card Machine

Final concepts for the Card Machine illustration

Initial sketches I made for some illustration ideas

Dev notes on page element, layout & styling for the new Auth screen

Dev notes on page element, layout & styling for Password field treatment

Navigation portal menu components

Spacing guide for Mobile

Hyperlink components

Pieces for the Dropdown component

Date & time picker

Typography system

MUI palette engineered to work for iK's

Stepper component pieces

My Internet Hideouts

Made with πŸ’œ and Custard!

Ekemini Mark, 2026. All Rights Reserved

ILLUSTRATION BY EKEMINI MARK

My Internet Hideouts

Made with πŸ’œ and Custard!

Ekemini Mark, 2026. All Rights Reserved

ILLUSTRATION BY EKEMINI MARK

My Internet Hideouts

Made with πŸ’œ and Custard!

Ekemini Mark, 2026. All Rights Reserved

ILLUSTRATION BY EKEMINI MARK

My work at iKhokha.exe