I'm a designer and front-end developer who blends design with coding to craft cohesive identities and polished, responsive interfaces. I thrive at the intersection of visual storytelling and usable digital experiences, delivering brand systems and UI components that scale across platforms. With experience across startups, e-commerce, and enterprise brands, I design logos, brand guidelines, and production-ready web features using tools like Figma, Illustrator, and Next.js. I enjoy collaborating across disciplines to bring ideas to life with clarity, creativity, and accessible design.…

Noeleen Sisson

I'm a designer and front-end developer who blends design with coding to craft cohesive identities and polished, responsive interfaces. I thrive at the intersection of visual storytelling and usable digital experiences, delivering brand systems and UI components that scale across platforms. With experience across startups, e-commerce, and enterprise brands, I design logos, brand guidelines, and production-ready web features using tools like Figma, Illustrator, and Next.js. I enjoy collaborating across disciplines to bring ideas to life with clarity, creativity, and accessible design.…

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I’m a designer and front-end developer who blends design with coding to craft cohesive identities and polished, responsive interfaces. I thrive at the intersection of visual storytelling and usable digital experiences, delivering brand systems and UI components that scale across platforms.

With experience across startups, e-commerce, and enterprise brands, I design logos, brand guidelines, and production-ready web features using tools like Figma, Illustrator, and Next.js. I enjoy collaborating across disciplines to bring ideas to life with clarity, creativity, and accessible design.

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Work Experience

Founding Designer & Front-End Developer at Declare Cloud
April 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025
As a founding team member of this early-stage startup, I combined brand design and front-end development to shape Declare Cloud’s identity. - Established the company’s visual identity - logo and icons (Illustrator) and brand guidelines (Figma). - Designed responsive UI mock-ups (Figma), integrated Vercel v0 code into Next.js, and quickly learned React/Tailwind to deliver production-ready features. - Contributed to Next.js app development with Bun, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind, using a structured workflow (branching, linting, testing, PRs, CI/CD). - Customized a component library and design system in React + Tailwind, adapting generated/prebuilt components - (buttons, forms, layouts, navigation, etc.) - Launched the website landing page, for Y Combinator deadline - Aug 2025. - Edited multimedia assets in Adobe Premiere Pro for Y Combinator and investor use. - Defined the visual style for the investor pitch deck in Google Slides.

Education

Matric at Kloof High School
January 2, 2000 - December 31, 2004
English, Afrikaans, Maths, Geography, Home Economics, Art

Qualifications

AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner
September 1, 2024 - September 27, 2024
Earners of this badge have demonstrated basic solution building knowledge using AWS services and have a fundamental understanding of AWS Cloud concepts. Badge earners have acquired hands-on experience with compute, networking, database and security services.
Adobe Certified Associate (ACA)
February 1, 2012 - March 31, 2012
An online, Adobe certified course. Web Communication using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Rich Media Communication using Adobe Flash CS5
International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL/ECDL)
January 1, 2005 - May 1, 2005
Basic Concepts of Information Technology Using Computers and Managing Files Microsoft Word 2000 Microsoft Excel 2000 Microsoft Access 2000 Microsoft Powerpoint 2000 Information and Communications - Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook
Google Prompting Essentials
September 28, 2025 - October 3, 2025
Those who earn the Google Prompting Essentials Certificate have completed four courses, developed by experts at Google, that help them design effective prompts for generative AI. They understand the prompting principles of evaluation, iteration, responsible AI, and have practical experience using AI to help with personal and work tasks. They have experience with text-to-text, text-to-image, and multi-modal prompts, and advanced prompting techniques, like prompt chaining and creating an AI agent.

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Retail, Education
    uniE621 Declare Cloud - Brand & Web Design / Development
    As a founding team member at the startup Declare Cloud, I helped build the company’s visual identity and online presence from the ground up. Through its core platform, Cloud-as-Context, Declare Cloud aims to make cloud infrastructure more intelligent and contextual. I contributed to brand design, web design, and front-end development, creating a cohesive, modern identity that reflected the product’s innovation while building trust with investors and early users. My Role: From the early concept stage, I worked closely with the two other founders, both experienced cloud architects, to define the brand strategy, establish the visual direction, and deliver both creative and technical outputs to support product launches and investor engagement. As part of our three-person founding team, I designed the logo, defined the colour palette, typography, and brand voice, and ensured consistency across all materials — from the website to the investor pitch deck. Together, we delivered a fully responsive, production-ready site and supporting assets in time for the Y Combinator application deadline on 4th August 2025. Contribution: Logo & Branding: Sketched and refined initial logo concepts through multiple iterations until the final design was approved. Established the colour system, typography, and imagery style for a consistent brand presence across digital and print. Icons & Imagery: Created a custom icon set in Illustrator to support the Cloud-as-Context product. Designed and enhanced AI-generated hero imagery in Photoshop to match the brand aesthetic. Web Design: Produced responsive Figma mockups for desktop, tablet, and mobile. Imported layouts into Vercel v0, refined the generated code, and integrated it into the Next.js project to speed up prototyping. Front-End Development: Built the landing page using React, Next.js, Bun, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. Implemented a reusable component library and design system for consistency and scalability. Workflow & Tooling: Developed inside a Docker container using VS Code and Cursor. Managed version control with TortoiseGit and maintained a structured CI/CD workflow via GitHub, including Prettier/ESLint checks, Jest/Playwright tests, and conventional commits. Pitch Deck & Media: Designed the investor pitch deck in Google Slides for brand alignment and edited both the founder introduction and Cloud-as-Context demo videos in Adobe Premiere Pro as part of the Y Combinator submission. Achievements: This project established Declare Cloud’s brand identity and online presence, positioning the company as a credible, forward-thinking player in the cloud intelligence space. By combining visual storytelling with strong front-end engineering, I helped move the startup from concept to launch in just a few months. The result was a cohesive, fully branded website and investor presentation, supported by a modern design system — creating a consistent, polished brand experience across all platforms.…
    uniE621 Ocado - Christmas Shop
    The Ocado Christmas Shop was a large-scale seasonal micro-site created to bring all of Ocado’s festive categories together in one place. Built as an extension of the main Ocado website, it allowed customers to browse everything from Christmas dinner essentials to gifts, decorations, and party food within a unified, festive experience. This was one of Ocado’s biggest seasonal projects, running for about five months from concept to launch. It involved close collaboration across the design, photography, and development teams, resulting in more than 60 pages — most structured around navigational menus and category banners that guided customers through themed Christmas aisles. My Role I worked as part of the creative team throughout the entire project, contributing to concept development, visual design, and asset production. Alongside other designers, I explored ideas for the homepage layout and overall creative direction, helping to define the visual tone for the campaign. I collaborated closely with my team leader and head of creative for design reviews, feedback, and final sign-off before assets went live, ensuring the look and feel remained consistent with Ocado’s brand and seasonal style. Contribution Early in the project, I was tasked with designing a series of flat icons to represent the different Christmas categories — an alternative to traditional product photography (See bottom screenshot example). Although the final decision was to use product photos for a more familiar festive look to previous years designs. Beyond concept work, I played a major role in asset preparation and banner design. All product images were shot in-house, and I worked closely with the studio team to prepare, edit, and optimize product photos for use across the site. I designed category banners and promotional visuals, ensuring a consistent style and tone throughout the Christmas shop. In addition to the micro-site itself, I created banners for social media and customer email campaigns, extending the Christmas campaign beyond the website. I worked to tight production deadlines, ensuring all assets were ready for internal review, sign-off, and testing before launch. Achievements The Christmas Shop launched successfully and became a central part of Ocado’s festive marketing that year. The project strengthened my skills in team collaboration, asset design, and large-scale campaign delivery under tight timelines. After launch, I supported continuous updates and maintenance, replacing banners when stock changed and ensuring visual accuracy across the site. The project was both challenging and rewarding, showcasing Ocado’s creativity and teamwork — and my ability to balance design precision, efficiency, and brand storytelling within a complex digital campaign. designer bannerdesign webdesigner…
    uniE621 Ocado - Microsite Brand Shops
    The Ocado Brand Shops are responsive microsites within the main Ocado website, created for a wide range of partner suppliers — including Brindisa, Daylesford, Peroni, and Wholegood, among others. These dedicated spaces help customers easily discover and navigate to each supplier’s products sold through the Ocado platform. At the time I was employed, the brand shops showcased their story, heritage, and values, strengthening customer connection and trust. Many also featured recipe sections, offering inspiration on how to cook with the featured products and encouraging deeper engagement with the brand. Each shop follows both Ocado’s internal brand shop guidelines and the supplier’s visual identity, balancing consistency across the platform with distinctive storytelling for every brand. My Role: I was responsible for taking each brand shop from initial brief through to launch, overseeing the full creative and technical process — from concept and layout design to front-end development, testing, and publication. I collaborated closely with a project manager who liaised directly with suppliers to coordinate assets, feedback, and approvals. Internally, I worked with my team leader and head of creative, presenting progress, gathering design feedback, and obtaining final sign-off before publishing the shops live on the Ocado site. Together, we ensured each microsite aligned with Ocado’s standards while meeting each supplier’s marketing goals. Contribution: I designed the shop mockups in Adobe Fireworks, prepared optimized assets for web, and hand-coded the pages using HTML and CSS3 within Ocado’s in-house CMS. Because JavaScript was restricted to prevent conflicts with the main site, I developed advanced HTML/CSS-only solutions to achieve interactivity and animation effects. Features such as carousels, drop-down menus, and accordion sections were built entirely with HTML and CSS, ensuring responsive layouts that worked seamlessly across desktop to tablet devices and browsers — including Internet Explorer 6, which required creative, lightweight code and careful testing. Achievements: Through these projects, I strengthened the presence of multiple supplier brands within Ocado’s e-commerce platform, delivering microsites that were visually polished, technically robust, and engaging to customers. Working within strict technical limits taught me to think creatively and build interactive, responsive experiences without JavaScript, sharpening my front-end problem-solving skills. I also learned the value of close collaboration — working alongside project managers, creative leads, and developers to maintain high design standards, consistency, and efficiency throughout production. The resulting brand shops — including those for Brindisa, Daylesford, Peroni, Wholegood, and many others — helped customers connect with brands in a more meaningful way while exploring their products on Ocado. webdesigner digitaldesigner webdeveloper…