Siphesihle Mayiyane

User Experience Analyst · ssmayiyane@gmail.com →

I create immersive experiences by understanding challenges and defining solutions
through user & human centered design across a variety of digital platforms.
I work well alone, but I truly believe I am at my best working collaboratively with those around me.


Skills

Design Tools & Software Competencies
Workflow
  • Engage Stakeholders, Build Context & Gather Requirements
  • Ideation & Conceptualisation
  • Prototyping
  • Testing
  • Handover For Development
  • Iterate

Experience

User Experience Analyst

SuperSport
September 2018 - Present

Actively working in improving user experience and engagement across the SuperSport Web, app and Mobi Platforms. Gathering requirements from product development staff, and using this to create the Information Architecture/ Wireframes/ Low & High fidelity prototypes for the new and improved SuperSport Web, App and Decoder platforms. Collaboration with teams and stakeholders to communicate design direction and refine user interfaces. Monitoring of statistics and analytics across SuperSport platforms with an aim of obtaining a better understanding of user behaviour and improving user journeys

User Experience Analyst

DStv Digital Media
February 2017 - August 2018

Actively working in improving user experience and engagement across the SuperSport Web and App platforms, whilst collaborating with DStv Now teams and stakeholders around in informing parts of the sport experience on the DStv Now website.

Student Assistant

University of Johannesburg
May 2016 - December 2016

Mentoring, assisting students in writing academic papers and marking.

Volunteer

Sci-Bono Discovery Centre
May 2016 - December 2016

As a tutor at the clubhouse, my responsibilities were as follows:

- Introducing photoshop and illustrator to the clubhouse kids
- Teaching advanced illustrator methods to some of the more experienced clubhouse kids
- Carrying out a poster design project with the clubhouse kids for the adobe youth voices campaign


Case Studies

SuperSport TV App Redesign

Project Coming soon · SuperSport
July 2020 - November 2020

Redesign of Africa’s largest sports broadcaster and content aggregator;
the platform covers all major sporting events, including video highlights,
results, fixtures, logs and news.

SuperSport Mobile App Redesign

Project Coming soon · SuperSport
August 2019 - October 2020

Redesign of Africa’s largest sports broadcaster and content aggregator;
the platform covers all major sporting events, including video highlights,
results, fixtures, logs and news.

SuperSport Website Redesign

DStv Digital Media
May 2017 - November 2018

Redesign of Africa’s largest sports broadcaster and content aggregator;
the platform covers all major sporting events, including video highlights,
results, fixtures, logs and news.

eCommunity:BTech Research Project

University of Johannesburg
February 2016 - November 2016

A web based project management and collaboration tool
designed to enable communities to be more self sufficient.


Awards & Certifications