Christie Osborne

Digital Design Unicorn 🦄

www.bornestudios.com

Sara Lawrence headshot

About

A highly adaptable Lead Digital Designer with over 6 years of experience bridging the gap between innovative concepts and functional digital products. Specialist in AI-integrated design workflows, UI/UX systems, and brand building across Web3, Crypto, and Agency environments. Known for a systems-oriented approach to design, leveraging empathy and deep-thinking to solve complex user problems.

Core Expertise

Design

UI/UX Design, High-fidelity Prototyping and Component Libraries/Design Systems

AI & Emerging Tech

Advanced Prompt Engineering, GPT building, AI-driven research, and Image/Audio/Video generation (Claude, Notebook LM, OpenAI).

Product Management

Full-cycle user testing, bug logging, developer collaboration, and task delegation.

Visual Strategy

Brand identity, Illustration (Digital & Traditional), Persona Design, and Diverse Campaigns

Work Experience

2024 — 2025

Product Manager | Dixon AI

Remote | Cape Town, RSA & Manchester, UK

2024

Digital Designer | Flight Story / Flight3

Remote | Cape Town, RSA & London, UK

Visual example 2 of design work - wall of paintings
Visual example of design work - rainbow sculpture
visual example 3 of design work - two tone sculptures

2023 — 2024

2021 — 2023

Visual example 2 of design work - wall of paintings
Visual example of design work - rainbow sculpture
visual example 3 of design work - two tone sculptures

2020 — 2021

UI/UX Designer & Illustrator | Lucky Beard Global

In Office | Pretoria & Johannesburg, RSA

2019

Graphic design internship | So Interactive

In Office | Johannesburg, RSA

Technical Toolkit

AI

ChatGPT for GPT’s, Claude for Code, Gemini for General & Gems, Google Notebook LM for large information organisation

Design

Figma (Expert - since 2019), FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Sites, Procreate.Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects.

Project Management

monday.com, Notion, (Kanban expert) Note: easily adaptable to any management tools

UX Research

Figma, Miro (Wireframing), UX Audits, User Testing, Bug Logging.

Side quests

LinumLabs NFT Collection

I was commissioned to create 28 unique NFT illustrations of each team member at LinumLabs which generated a profit of 4.6ETH ($15167.00)

Dragverse

In 2022 I entered ETHGlobal Hackathon and won 2 prizes for creating a avatar orientated social DApp. The application is now in the hands of the community

Cosmic Creatures

I have created a second NFT concept collection where i manually illustrated elements for a template creature and generated 100 NTF’s through randomisation

Education & Upskilling

2019

Current

Neuroscience Coach Course | Efficient Coach

Online

2025

Advanced AI for Designers Course | Memorisely

Online

2025

Weekly AI Upskilling | AICafe Host at DixonAI

Online

2023

Illustration Masterclass | Ghostshrimp (Adventure Time World Creator).

Online

2021

CSS, Office communications upskilling | Udemy

Online

Christie Osborne

Digital Design Unicorn 🦄

www.bornestudios.com

Sara Lawrence headshot

About

A highly adaptable Lead Digital Designer with over 6 years of experience bridging the gap between innovative concepts and functional digital products. Specialist in AI-integrated design workflows, UI/UX systems, and brand building across Web3, Crypto, and Agency environments. Known for a systems-oriented approach to design, leveraging empathy and deep-thinking to solve complex user problems.

Core Expertise

Design

UI/UX Design, High-fidelity Prototyping and Component Libraries/Design Systems

AI & Emerging Tech

Advanced Prompt Engineering, GPT building, AI-driven research, and Image/Audio/Video generation (Claude, Notebook LM, OpenAI).

Product Management

Full-cycle user testing, bug logging, developer collaboration, and task delegation.

Visual Strategy

Brand identity, Illustration (Digital & Traditional), Persona Design, and Diverse Campaigns

Work Experience

2024 — 2025

Product Manager | Dixon AI

Remote | Cape Town, RSA & Manchester, UK

2024

Digital Designer | Flight Story / Flight3

Remote | Cape Town, RSA & London, UK

Visual example 2 of design work - wall of paintings
Visual example of design work - rainbow sculpture
visual example 3 of design work - two tone sculptures

2023 — 2024

2021 — 2023

Visual example 2 of design work - wall of paintings
Visual example of design work - rainbow sculpture
visual example 3 of design work - two tone sculptures

2020 — 2021

UI/UX Designer & Illustrator | Lucky Beard Global

In Office | Pretoria & Johannesburg, RSA

2019

Graphic design internship | So Interactive

In Office | Johannesburg, RSA

Technical Toolkit

AI

ChatGPT for GPT’s, Claude for Code, Gemini for General & Gems, Google Notebook LM for large information organisation

Design

Figma (Expert - since 2019), FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Sites, Procreate.Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects.

Project Management

monday.com, Notion, (Kanban expert) Note: easily adaptable to any management tools

UX Research

Figma, Miro (Wireframing), UX Audits, User Testing, Bug Logging.

Side quests

LinumLabs NFT’s

I was commissioned to create 28 unique NFT illustrations of each team member at LinumLabs which generated a profit of 4.6ETH ($15167.00)

Visual example 2 of design work - wall of paintings
Visual example of design work - rainbow sculpture
visual example 3 of design work - two tone sculptures

Dragverse

In 2022 I entered ETHGlobal Hackathon and won 2 prizes for creating a avatar orientated social DApp. The application is now in the hands of the community

Cosmic Creatures

I have created a second NFT concept collection where i manually illustrated elements for a template creature and generated 100 NTF’s through randomisation

Education & Upskilling

2019

B.A. in Communication Design & Illustration | Open Window Institute

Pretoria, RSA

Current

Neuroscience Coach Course | Efficient Coach

Online

2025

Advanced AI for Designers Course | Memorisely

Online

2025

Weekly AI Upskilling | AICafe Host at DixonAI

Online

2023

Illustration Masterclass | Ghostshrimp (Adventure Time World Creator).

Online

2021

CSS, Office communications upskilling | Udemy

Online