Netherlands

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Content Design

Product Design

UX writing

Digital Marketing

UX Research

Content Strategy

Business Transformation

Systems Design

AI Design

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Niall O'Kelly

Director Experience Design

Bluesky

Quantitative research

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Accessibility

AI/ML

Brand strategy

Campaign execution & analysis

Content creation

Content pipeline

Content strategy

Design systems

Information architecture

Marketing strategy

User research

Airtable

ChatGPT

Figma

Jira

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Team player

Project management

Business intelligence

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Design lead at adidas global experience design team since 2016. In this time I have lead:
— Creation of adidas Design Language, our membership program, our product launch & hype experiences. 
— Lead product design for upper funnel experience (focus on global .com)
— Now lead the Future of Content program; rethinking how we create, manage, render personalized content with AI, and leading business transformation to enable this.

Experience lead for major platform redesign projects in government, finance, retail sectors. 

Interim IC design support for short/long term engagements with Phillips Health (3 yrs), telecom, non-profit sectors.

My own design studio, founded when I lived in New York City. Grew the business & supported junior staff, network of engineers, illustrators, writers. Client mix of US politicians/parties, non-profit orgs, small businesses across the US & Europe.

Niall O'Kelly🇳🇱