Rob Cowie

Digital Design & UX in Financial Services: January 2025 Insights

January 2025 has brought a wave of exciting advancements and strategic shifts in the financial services sector. As users increasingly…

5 months ago

2024 Absa XDC Conference

Spoke at the inaugural Absa Experience Design Conference on Designing the Future through Prototyping. The major shift you need to…

9 months ago

2024 Absa Design Hackathon

Presented an overview of UX and Design Research concepts and tools to students at the Vega School, University of Johannesburg,…

10 months ago

Your First Design is Wrong

Designing better and delivering faster is the dream of all designers, but it need not be a just a dream.…

2 years ago

2023 UX South Africa Conference

Delivered a keynote address on Effective Data Visualisation Design at the 2023 UX South Africa Conference in Johannesburg. Effective Data…

2 years ago

2023 Absa Design Masterclass

Presented a talk on 50 Things Every Designer Must Know.

2 years ago

Eight Concepts from Behavioural Economics for Designers

As a designer, I’m interested in bringing concepts and learnings from a wide range of disciplines into the world of…

3 years ago

Effective Data Visualisation Design

I’m currently part of a project to create a design framework for data visualisation across the organisation. This has been…

3 years ago

Improving your UX and UI Writing — 5 Practical Tips

Whether you’re developing an online storefront, a SaaS website, or a B2B presentation landing page, both UX and UI play…

3 years ago

Design with Confidence

Whenever our design leadership group discusses design team members, I often hear comments like: “She is a brilliant designer but…

4 years ago