✳ Portfolio — Selected work c. 2014–PRESENT
Johannesburg ✳ GMT+2
SquareInk
- Digital Products
- Design Systems
- UX / UI
Senior product design. On demand.
Product design and design systems for teams that need senior capacity without another full-time hire.
FedgroupAbsaNedbankDiscoveryCell CRMBRIOT InsightsLivestock WealthSales Advantage
The Work
ABSA BUSINESS BANKING PORTAL
RIOT Insight
Discovery Health ID
Imaginashun
✳ Work with Squareink
Senior product design
without the agency overhead.
Product design and design systems for teams that need experienced design capacity without hiring another full-time designer.
No bloated team. No account managers. No long-term contracts. Clients work directly with James.
$4,500/ month
For product teams that need senior design capacity without hiring another full-time designer.
From individual features to complete product experiences, Squareink works alongside product and engineering teams to turn complex requirements into clear, usable digital products.
Included
- —UX & UI design
- —Web applications
- —Mobile applications
- —SaaS products
- —Dashboards & data visualisation
- —AI product interfaces
- —User flows & interaction design
- —Wireframes
- —High-fidelity interface design
- —Interactive prototypes
- —UX/UI audits
- —Existing product improvements
- —Developer-ready Figma files
- —Component creation where required
- —Unlimited requests in the queue
- —Unlimited revisions
- —One active request at a time
- —Direct access to James
- —Weekly product/design check-in
- —Month-to-month
Typical turnaround
Most focused requests are delivered within 2–4 business days. Larger features are broken into smaller deliverables so progress remains continuous.
Best for
Startups, scale-ups and established product teams that already know what they are building but need experienced design capacity to make the product substantially better.
$7,500/ month
For teams building products that need to scale.
Senior product design combined with design-system architecture — connecting the interface, components, tokens, patterns and product rules into one coherent system.
Everything in Product Design, plus
- —Design system strategy
- —Existing design system audits
- —Figma library architecture
- —Component architecture
- —Variables & design tokens
- —Responsive component behaviour
- —Component variants & states
- —Pattern libraries
- —Accessibility considerations
- —Cross-platform consistency
- —iOS / Android / web alignment
- —Design-system documentation
- —Governance recommendations
- —Product-to-system integration
- —Developer handoff specifications
- —System cleanup & consolidation
- —Design debt reduction
- —Product design leadership
- —Two active workstreams at a time
- —Weekly strategy session
- —Priority turnaround
- —Direct collaboration with product and engineering
Best for
Product organisations with multiple screens, features, platforms or teams where inconsistency and design debt are beginning to slow delivery.
This isn’t simply a UI library. The objective is a product system your team can continue building with.
How it works
- 01
Subscribe
Choose the level of support your team needs.
- 02
Request
Add as many design requests as you’d like to the queue. Priorities can change whenever the product changes.
- 03
Design
Work directly with James — no account managers and no work passed down to junior designers.
- 04
Ship
Review, refine and move into development. Then we move onto the next priority.
Senior design.
Directly.
Squareink is an independent product design practice led by James Mokhasi.
Fifteen years of experience across banking, fintech, investment products, AI platforms, healthcare and large-scale design systems — available without hiring an agency or building another permanent role.
One designer. Senior experience. No layers.
✳ Profile
Design solutions,
not just artefacts.
SQUAREINK is an independent design practice founded by James Mokhasi, specialising in digital products, UX/UI and design systems. Working out of Johannesburg, its work spans first-of-their-kind investment products, mobile banking at national scale, conversational banking, retail hardware interfaces and AI-assisted sales tooling.
James specialises in design systems — the component libraries, tokens and rules that let large product teams ship consistently across iOS, Android and web. Work for Fedgroup reached number one on both the Apple and Android stores; work for Sales Advantage compressed a multi-week analysis task into 7.5 minutes.