I’m Michael,


Design Lead

UX/UI Specialist

Product Designer

Design System Specialist

Visual Designer

Consultant & Trainer

Selected work

Groupon Design System

I was hired to give fresh perspective to their current design system, to assess and revamp a very old and disorganised design system. Starting with a comprehensive review and evaluation, to building out a new product design system, to training team members and producing guidelines, templates and playbooks to establish new company wide standards.
Duties
Design Consulant / UI Design / Workshops / Training

Vodafone

20+ products designed for Vodaphone, spanning multiple platforms for public and business users. These products are their primary billing applications, the primary focus of which was to mitigate customer services queries by creating more understandable bill info with better data visualisation & user experience.
Duties
Lead Designer / Data Visualisation / Visual Design

Bank of Ireland

A UX focused role with regular user testing to direct the best approach to design and the best experience for customers applying for loans. This role required lots of stakeholder workshops and training teams on product life cycle standards and agile methodologies.
Duties
Lead UX Design / Usability Testing / User Flows / Stakeholder Workshops

Rogers

As Canada's largest telco company, I was required to design all their customer facing billing applications across desktop, mobile and paper for both business and public customers. With strong focus on visualisation of billing data.
Duties
UX Design / Lead Product Design / Visual Design

Aya Banking App

Native mobile application design for the Myanmar based bank Aya. This was an end-to-end project developing a new customer facing app from conception to MVP. The project involved lots of workshops, design system creation and involving teams with the latest design standards and processes.
Duties
Creative Direction / Lead Visual Design / Consultant / Workshop Host

Design System Consultation & Figma Training

A purely consultation role in which I was brought in to assess and train ESB's new design team with the latest fundamentals on design systems and Figma.
Duties
Consultation & Training / Design Systems / Figma Training

Nearform Website Design

A tech development agency required me to redesign and modernise their outdated website to help showcase their client projects and capabilities to better market their services, while building a flexible design system which they can utilise for future updates.
Duties
Branding / Product Design / Design System / Visual Design

Charles Rivers Design System

With multiple new product initiatives underway, I was hired to work with other designers building those products to create a flexible design system pool that all designers could utilise to maintain consistency throughout all new products being developed.
Duties
UI Design / Design System Lead

Charles Rivers Apollo

While designing their new design system I was also designing their new lab testing product called Apollo.
Duties
Lead Product Design / UI Design

Readersight Product Design

An ambitious startup project, in which I designed their first flagship product. As a user analytics tool for media companies it required a strong understanding of the data being processed to be able to build new dashboards and widgets, and even some other features which I conceived based on the data available.
Duties
UX Researcher /Branding / Lead Product Design / Design Manager

Klir Product Design

This contract required me to design and develop this B2B task management application for irish startup Klir, aimed at water testing industries around the world. From conception to MVP launch, this application required both UI and UX duties with many usability test sessions with potential clients. I also worked as their front end developer at the same time, coding in HTML, CSS and LESS.
Duties
Lead Product Design / UX Design / Usability Testing / Front End Development