Who you'll work with.

When you hire pondo, these are the people who do the work. No account managers, no junior layer to hand off to.

Founder & Designer

Peter Koen

The world should not be tolerated the way it is. If something isn't as good as it could be, design a better way. With the people who actually have to use it. (That principle has paid the bills since 1999.)

Track record includes enterprise software for ~70% of the JSE top 100. Co-founded InfoSlips in 2005, scaled to millions of documents a month across 144 countries. Started pondo in 2015. UX lead and investor at SimVida. Also building Kit, a persistent-memory substrate for AI agents.

Senior Designer

Hanna Duker

Experience designer with a background in professional architecture. Public-sector urban design across South Africa came first. The systems lens stayed when she pivoted to digital. Twelve years across enterprise tools and community-impact platforms, most at home where the problem space is genuinely complex and research is the spine.

Design Advisor

Brian Kilbey

Senior UX strategist, fintech and enterprise SaaS, in his element with complex back-office systems and B2B workflows across mobile and desktop. Transitioned from 15 years in nonprofit social research and workshop facilitation. The methods overlap more than they look. Advises pondo on strategy and senior calls.

Collaborators

Specialists, by name, on the project.

For each engagement we bring in vetted specialists: research moderators, motion designers, accessibility auditors, dev partners. They're selected for the project and named in the proposal, not on a marketing page. The team you see is the team you get.

Senior, AI-forward freelance UX designers and developers: if our model resonates, we'd like to know about you. The bench is always open to the right people. Get in touch

How we deliver

More per person than five years ago.

Modern tooling, including AI for prototyping and code generation, is part of why three senior designers can ship at the velocity we do. The thinking, the decisions, and the accountability stay with the people above. We've written more about how that works on Working with AI.

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