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Senior/Lead UX/UI Designer, Product Designer & Strategist / Fractional Design Consultant

Graduation: Master of Arts: Music Technology (Pyschology & HCI)
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Full Professional) | English (Native or Bilingual)

Attachments

DaveMooney-CV-Lebenslauf-Eng-Deu-02-2024_030424.pdf

Skills

Digital product designer with 13+ years of experience in design, development and product strategy in both agency and startup/scale-up environments

I am a generalist and with particular aptitudes in:
  • UX/UI/Interaction Design
  • Service Design - Refining processes & service components
  • Design/Generative Systems - Building/maintaining
  • Software Development - Prototyping and coding
  • Product Strategy & User Research
  • Design Process - Design Thinking, Lean UX, Design Sprints

Project history

09/2022 - Present
Senior UX Designer
Telefónica (Telecommunications, >10.000 employees)

Joined Telefonica's UX Team for a global project to create a multi-brand, multi-
channel mobile service platform and integrated design system
- Designed high-level UI/UX patterns (which applied to all brands) within the context
of an Atomic design system
- Designed various elements of the new customer signup journey for mobile/desktop
across Telefonica's sub-brands like O2, Nettokom, and Whatsapp SIM
- Led initiatives to enhance design processes and integrate prototyping tools
- Led various Discovery projects to rework existing journeys and prepare new user flows for novel features and products. 
- Led various design/component alignment projects to reduce inconsistencies and improve design work throughput.
- Led the creation of a Hi-Fi responsive prototype in Protopie, enabling stakeholder
visualization of user journeys and end-user experience previewing
- Reduced the number of meetings and UX bugs
- Improved developer collaboration
- Porting and adapting prototype to use 100% Figma implementation

01/2022 - 04/2024
UX Designer
Springer Nature (Media and Publishers, 5000-10.000 employees)

Hired to lead the Discovery UX Design activities for several projects, including
- B2C dashboard/metrics product for researchers
- Education development platform
- Newsletter Sign-up flow
- Typical parts of my role included:
- Leading Design Sprints
- Stakeholder management and ongoing ad-hoc design consulting to senior
management
- Design roadmap preparation
- Workshop facilitation
- Prototype development & User Testing

12/2021 - 02/2022
Experience Lead
Publicis Sapient (Internet and Information Technology)

Joined a development team to provide UI support as part of Discovery activities

  • Developed User flows, Wireframes

  • Created prototype UI concepts for user testing

  • Refined UI designs in reaction to research insights

  • Prepare Design System assets


11/2020 - 03/2021
Freelance UX/UI Specialist
E.On (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)

  • Hired to lead the design on data monetisation innovation project within E.ON’s Data Science product incubation department.
    • Provided to UX/UI design consulting to product managers supporting them to clarify their product vision.
    • Prepared Project Design Work outline (project scoping, timeline preparation, cost estimations, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and requirements etc)
    • Lead User Research initiatives (Market segmentation, Target user definition, recruitment, interviewing, insights report preparation)
    • Supported product management with product pivot
    • Prepared Prototype facilitated design feedback meetings among stakeholders
    • Prepared and refined UI concepts in collaboration with other design team members

11/2019 - 05/2020
Product Design Consultant / Product Strategist
AJ&Smart

- Hired for the B2B Design Sprint Team to deliver product, design and strategy
consultation services to global brands (Ikea, Sage, Novartis)
- Delivered Design Sprints, corporate training and other facilitation products
- Developed digital product concepts from concept to high-fidelity prototypes
- Owned the user research role of the Sprint delivery
- Facilitated Sprint workshops
- Advised clients regarding product design, development and strategy
- Initiated various improvements including role definitions, design guidelines,
product documentation, process automation which resulted in increased
efficiency, alignment and consistency across the team and product

10/2018 - 03/2019
UX Designer - Native-Instruments.com (Web)
Native Instruments (500-1000 employees)

- Joined the web team to lead the redesign of the native-instrument.com online store,
toward improving conversion
- Developed new design concepts
- Co-ordinated shared design resources
- Drove user research/testing and A/B testing
- Provided design consultancy to product/engineering for the NativeID feature
improving the sign-in experience across all NI subsidiary websites

07/2017 - 10/2018
UX Designer - (Komplete Kontrol)
Native Instruments

- Joined the Komplete Kontrol team to lead the design on the NKS Effects feature
- Lead the user research, UX/UI design, prototyping and testing of this feature
- Developed and maintained design systems




- Developed closed user-group (user-base from 0 - > 700 in 3 months) and insights
system which contributed to marked improvements in UX success metrics, test
coverage and availability of insights to product managers
- Advised product managers through roadmap creation and development of new
hardware and software product concepts

06/2015 - 07/2017
UX Designer (Maschine)
Native Instruments

- I was hired to lead the design on Maschine's audio track
- Developed UX/UI concepts for Maschine SW and HW controllers
- Drove user research initiatives
- Co-developed the Maschine alpha user group
- Co-developed a Hardware/Software prototyping environment
- Drove the creation of Native Instrument's first Design System

Local Availability

Only available in Berlin and 25 km around
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