"There are good self-study courses, there are excellent self-study courses and then there’s ‘Find Your True North’. Thys and Vaughn have put together a well-structured and user-friendly course that is packed with real value because it gives practical tools. For a change something based on real behavioural science and not fads such as mindfulness.”

"I'm lucky to have worked with Thys. He provides a rare combination of intelligence, creativity and patience. He is gifted with the wonderful talent to engage people. Due to his flexibility and curiosity, we are discovering new pathways in higher education. He knows how to make you feel comfortable in intercultural settings and he has great humour which I truly appreciate about him.​"

"Vaughn volunteered to help drive the Practical Service Design community research project. When we worked together, I was impressed by his contribution to the work itself, and his strong sense of purpose and upbeat work style that helped push our project team forward. Our team relied on Vaughn's participation from initial planning to conducting remote participant interviews through the synthesis of insights and recommendations. And he made it all happen from South Africa with the rest of our core team distributed across the United States and India."

"I have been fortunate to work closely with Thys over the last 10 years on various project platforms and committees like Platform6 which was a World Design Capital 2014 Project. More recently we have been both serving on Cape Town's UNESCO Creative Cities Network team since 2017 when Cape Town received its latest design accolade as the first UNESCO City of Design in Afrika. Through our many interactions and conversations, on and off project platforms, his ongoing dedication, interest and passion for Design, Design Thinking and Education and his strategic way of thinking has always added great value to any conversation."

"Vaughn performed exceptionally well on projects with enthusiasm and drive, which yielded a highly motivated and creative atmosphere. He is a highly-skilled design expert, with excellent communication skills, reliable and precise. Vaughn's ideas, skills, knowledge and understanding of dependencies made new development requirements and design easy to work on. If you need a highly committed expert, Vaughn is the right person."

"A lateral thinker with a natural disposition towards conceptual development, strategic implementation and people management; Thys de Beer has an extraordinary ability to develop and apply practical design solutions to complex problems. He has mastered the ability of effective and direct communication with different stakeholders of varying age-groups, across a range of demographics in his characteristic 'de Beer' style, while providing a strong leadership model for both students, colleagues and industry networks at large.​"

"Vaughn took the lead in the Williams Lea Tag corporate website redesign and Gov.UK Department of Community and Local Government projects, making use of new design processes and solutions. He is a role model of continuous improvement and always eager to share his knowledge. Vaughn has become an ambassador for the UX team within Williams Lea Tag."

"Thys is the blueprint of a design thinker. Someone with the innate ability to recognize human behavior to the point of innate empathy and a profound insight of the human psyche. He is sensitive to context and being an ever problem solver for the greater good, he not only inspires his students to think in the same way but also mastered andragogical approaches to land understanding and seamless facilitation of practical application."