Ireland

UX Design

Product Design

UX Research

MSc User Experience Design

Ba Hons of Interaction Design (Joint degree with Crawford College of Art & Design)

BA Hons

Ray O'Neill

Senior Product Designer

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Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Design systems

Salesforce

SurveyMonkey

Webflow

Figma

Jira

Maze

Miro

Google Analytics

IBM SPSS

Lookback

Zendesk

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

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

Design career path

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

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

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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

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

Creating a product vision

- Leading user research efforts to uncover customer pain points, capture stakeholder input and to uncover new product opportunities
- Facilitating workshops and develop feature concepts to bridge the gap between product discovery and product development by incorporating a design driven research approach
- Engaging with key stakeholders to determine UX issues with flows and quickly iterated on concepts for revalidation
- Working closely with scrum teams to share user flows &  UI specifications in sprint planning sessions and through development iterations

I led design of key editorial projects. I helped to grow our overall subscriber base by 50% & increased customer satisfaction with digital products.

Key Achievements:

I helped our team incorporate a user-centered process, bringing user feedback & interactive design into the development cycle.

I designed a flexible design system, built html components that were used across elections in 2016 & 2017.

I was responsible for the product vision, the UX/UI design and all research and user testing during this three month MVP project for Google DNI.

I facilitated company-wide workshops, designed online surveys and interviewed customers and ran user tests for the latest mobile web offering.

- Led client training workshops and wrote training documentation manuals for clients' websites. 
- Improved team's development workflow by introducing SASS and better Wordpress theming practices.
- Built HTML Email templates for Campaign Monitor. 
- Maintained, designed & developed client websites using Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML, CSS, jQuery & Wordpress. 
- Contributed towards the production of iPad apps using Adobe DPS, Adobe Edge & After Effects.
- Participated in client meetings as well as advising clients on current trends and best practices.

- Contributed to major website redesigns such as the live betting site & affiliates websites.
- Designed and reworked marketing assets including landing pages, email headers, animated banners, flash banners.
- Wrote ActionScript code for expandable banners and video banners as well as standard flash banners for Google Double-Click.. 
- Assisted the production manager with controlling studio traffic, liaising with the marketing teams and the design team.
- Delegated work to the other production designers.

- Worked closely with the Creative Director, to design and develop microsites, full brand websites as well being responsible for designing and developing EDMs for ongoing campaigns. 
- Designed numerous Facebook apps for clients basis such as Littlewoods' weekly competitions.
- Designed and developed flash banner ads as well as scoped out the use of HTMl5 & CSS3 for mobiles ads.

Ray O'Neill🇮🇪