Don Crowley
Senior Product Designer
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Portfolio
Please email me for a recent CV & portfolio.
Sony Music ISC
For Sony Music I provided UX and visual design to International and dutch artists including Frans Bauer and Racoon for upcoming web campaigns and online shops.
Created using: Research: Sketching, text. Method: Interviews and sessions with multi discipline team (Management, IT dept., Sales, UX & Visual design) Mockups: Photoshop Templates: HTML/ CSS
The Dutch State Board for Cultural Heritage
New branding and information architecture plus a major transfer of content to a new CMS that must be ready at opening day. It was completed on time.
Created using: Method: Meetings, IA & UX sessions, Content analysis and planning. Wireframes: InDesign (detailing content types, taxonomies for all content and views. Defining advanced search inter- face which uses advanced taxonomy filters). Mockups: Photoshop Templates: HTML/ CSS
The Dutch State Board for Livestock, Meat and Eggs
The new branding, UX and visual design helped the State Board realise a new sense of purpose. It enabled them to extend their professional presence and focus on their research and publications.
Created using: Research: Interviews, Sketching, text. Method: The design funnel by Stephen Hay Wireframes: Indesign Mockups: Photoshop Templates: HTML/ CSS
Marten Atsma Architect
Marten Artsma is a dutch architect with a strong professional reputation and client list. For Marten we wanted to simply create a strong visual design built on a strong UX values by re—examining business goals and customer expectations.
Created using: Research: Sketching, text. Method: Interviews and sessions with multi discipline team (Management, IT dept., Sales, UX & Visual design) Mockups: Photoshop Templates: HTML/ CSS
Skills
Do you need better collaboration with business, better data and user research? I can help if UX is young within your organisation and you need to increase its effectiveness.
Experience
I have international experience working on projects in London, Brussels and various locations in the Netherlands. I have worked on many dutch government projects as well as for Sony Music and Deutsche Bank. I am currently working for Iddink Group a digital service provider of leading educational software products such as Magister and Eduarte.
Hiring me can help you with
- Creating user experiences that can be mapped directly to the business and user requirements of the project.
- Working with contributors from multiple disciplines to develop, refine and articulate the visual and interaction design of the product concept through wireframes and other design techniques.
- Transforming early-stage design artifacts (e.g. wireframes) into best-of-breed product designs that drive improved consumer engagement and lead conversion, whilst remaining true to brand guidelines.
- Collaborating effectively with Account Managers, Front-End Developers, App Developers, Technical Program Managers and Marketing to plan and execute the creation of the product according to agreed objectives and design principles.
- Assisting business and functional analysts as UX advisor on last minute business changes
- Mentoring other teams within large organisations on UI development and implementation of and using design systems and component libraries
- Because I possess a deep understanding of UX processes, methodologies, and the interplay between business requirements, user research, branding, visual design, and technology.
Education/ Certification
2018
- AJ & Smart Design sprint facilitator masterclass
- Nielsen Norman group Information architecture
- Nielsen Norman group Facilitating UX workshops
2017
- The Interaction Design Foundation: Mobile User Experience Design (top 10% distinction, Score 97%)
- The Interaction Design Foundation: Information Visualisation (top 10% distinction, Score 96%)
- The Interaction Design Foundation: Information Visualisation: Getting dashboards right (top 10% distinction, Score 99%)
- The Interaction Design Foundation: Dynamic User experience: Ajax, design and usability (Score: 87%)
- The Interaction Design Foundation: Conducting Usability Testing (Score: 82%)
- The Interaction Design Foundation: Formal design methods (Score: 80%)
- The Interaction Design Foundation: Gamification - Creating Addictive User Experiences