About Me
Yes, that's me!
I'm Paul Venter — a proud South African, born, raised, and still happily based in this beautiful country.
My creative journey started early with doodling, writing stories, and sketching blueprints for wild ideas. My love for fine art, creative writing, and technical drawing at school was a pretty clear hint at where I was headed.
Right after school, I kicked off my career as a Graphic Designer for a newspaper in Pretoria. That fast-paced environment sharpened my design and digital skills — and sparked something else: I loved teaching what I was learning. Soon after, I started lecturing in Media and Web Design at colleges across Gauteng.
While working and lecturing, I completed my BTech in Multimedia Design Technologies, which opened new doors in Visual Communication.
Today I'm a Visual Communication Expert with a focus on UX Design, Agile Project Management, and Education. I'm a lifelong learner — always exploring new technologies and methodologies to stay relevant and useful.
What drives me most? Solving real problems and collaborating with others to build meaningful, user-centered solutions.
I absolutely love what I do. Let's connect — I'd love to hear about your journey and share more about mine.
My Experience
UX Designer at ICE Tech
2021-Current
- Developing and design of User Experience processes and journeys.
- Developing and maintaining of the corporate identity of the company.
- Designing Mobile Applications interfaces.
- Conducting user interviews.
- Conducting UX Research.
Fulltime Freelancer
2015-2017
- Developing User Experience journeys and mock-ups for clients.
Developing websites for clients. - Designing marketing material for clients
- Running online marketing campaigns for clients.
Midrand Graduate Institute
2008-2010
- Lecturing students.
- Facilitating students with their assignments.
- Course development.
- Web Development.
- E-Learning development and administration.
Fulltime Freelancer
1999-2001
- Developing websites for clients.
- Designing marketing material for clients.
- Teaching Web Development.
- Teaching Media Design.
- UX Research
- UX Design
Computer Art Academy
1995-1997
- Lecturing Media Design at corporate companies.
- Developing course material.
Metro Newspaper
1994-1995
- Design of adverts
- Newspaper layout
- Writing of a music column
UX Senior Designer at BMW
2017-2020
- Developing and design of User Experience processes, journeys and graphics.
- Developing and maintaining an internal communications web presence.
- Running the South African BMW skills initiative called XLab.
- Lecturing Agile Project Management via Confluence and Jira software.
AdVtech/IIE
2010-2015
- Develop training content.
- Development and maintenance of the corporate website and presentations.
- Manage, develop and maintain 23 modules of various IT courses.
- Manage developers of courses.
Damelin Education Group
2001-2008
- Lecturing students in Visual Communications.
- Facilitating students with their assignments.
- Course development.
- Assessments and moderation.
Atlantic Internet Services
1997-1999
- Developing websites for clients.
- Designing marketing material for clients.
- Teaching web development.
- Managing marketing for the company.
- UX/UI Design
My Skills Area of Expertise
UI / UX Design
I have more than 20 years of UX/UI design experience. I started off with designing multimedia interfaces for CD's, games and digital kiosks.
01
Graphic/Multimedia Design
This is where I started. Graphic design is the basis for everything I do. I studied Multimedia Design Technologies and gained a BTECH degree at TUT. My media skills include Photography, Videography and Video editing.
04
UX Research
I have over 20 years of experience in UX research, leveraging methods such as user interviews, surveys, usability testing, heuristic evaluations, and more.
02
Web Design
Since the WWW became a thing I have been designing websites with design apps, HTML, Javascript and online applications such as WordPress, Joomla and various E-commerce software.
05
Project Management (Agile)
I felt it will be wise to understand project management as it forms the basis of the work I do. I consequintly attended and completed a traditional Project Management course by Damelin. With the advent of Agile, I attended a BMW Agile Project Management course using Jira and Confluence.
07
Education
Teaching is a thing my family do. (Nearly all of them) I started lecturing early in my life and have never stopped sharing knowledge.
03
Marketing (Traditional and Online)
Marketing is part of User Experience (UX). Early on working at a newspaper, I learned about marketing and how people react to what they see or hear. With that knowledge, I have implemented online marketing campaigns.
