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Luke van Zyl

Hi, I'm Luke

Designer, tinkerer, and passionate note-taker. Always chasing better WFH routines, mental wellness, and the systems that make everyday life feel a little more balanced.

Previously
UX Design Manager
PwC Digital 2023 – 2025

Managed PwC's global design system serving 3,000+ products while leading a team of 25 designers and engineers across a globally distributed organization.

Systems Leadership
Senior UX Designer
PwC Digital 2021 – 2023

Lead designer on multiple AI-powered and marquee products for Fortune 500 clients, from concept through delivery.

AI Product
Freelance UX & Web Designer
Independent 2015 – 2021

Partnered with startups and small businesses on UX strategy, interface design, and marketing sites from discovery through launch.

UX Web
I've built and evolved design systems end to end: libraries, tokens, and how we document them, and I've stayed paired with engineering until those patterns were really living in the product—not just living in a file. I've built three entire design systems from scratch in Figma and I've helped two organizations migrate onto it. I wrote curriculum and documentation for designers, engineers, and product managers on how to work in the tool, hand off cleanly, archive work, and keep docs useful so people actually felt confident using it. In the systems and products I've touched, I've treated accessibility as part of the design spec: I've defined keyboard flows, contrast, and motion in components so teams weren't scrambling to retrofit accessibility only when something broke in QA. I've mentored three designers for multiple years through ongoing 1:1s: craft, how they tell the story of their work, and how they steer through messy product and stakeholder situations. At PwC I led the effort that upskilled 120+ designers in Figma: I built the curriculum and the roadmap that moved our whole design department from Sketch to Figma in nine months.

v1  ·  2024
Galaxy
Black hole · Bear notes · Digital garden
v2  ·  present
Launchpad
App icons · Zen garden · Case studies
Today
2025
2024