James Whelan
jameswhelan.co-
Product Designer
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WO R K E X PE R IE N CE
S K I L LS
Sylon / Product Design Lead
Design
J U L 2 0 19 - PR E SE N T, D U BL I N
IA, Wireframing, Userflows, Visual
Sylon, a company of Shipyard Technology Ventures, is a new kind of innovation
enablement business that specializes in helping large companies discover, develop and
launch disruptive new products and services.
• Designing Sylon's SaaS platform.
• Developing team strategy, process and structure.
• Collaboration and providing design feedback.
• Developing team strategy, process and structure.
• Advocating design across the company.
• Creating and managing design systems across several work streams.
• Workshopping and conducting ideation sessions both internally and with external clients.
• Managing design implementation with stakeholders and engineering.
Design, Sketching, Brand
Development, Design Team
Management, Extensive Workshop
and group ideation experience.
Research
App Analytics, Persona
hypothesis, User Interviewing,
Desirability Testing, Usability
Testing, Storyboarding.
• Developing the Sylon brand.
Implementation
• Meeting customers, validating ideas and managing design feedback.
HTML, CSS, Wordpress,
Squarespace, JS.
Personal Finance Co / Lead Product Designer
Tools
N OV 2 0 1 7 - M AY 2 0 1 9 , S T O C K H O L M
Sketch, Figma, Abstract, Anima,
• Responsible for overseeing design of the P.F.C. banking app from early sketching and
userflows to visual and interaction design.
• Carried out 3 months of product and user research as well as extensive feature desirability
and user testing during the product’s initial development.
• Developed close relationships within the product and engineering teams to research, test
and launch the product in the Nordic market.
• Built an extensive design system to ensure future design consistency within the product.
• Assisted the marketing team in liasing with an external agency to develop the company
brand with the new P.FC. product in mind.
• Expanded the design team from 1 to 3 designers; working in product design, digital design
and interaction design in 12 months.
James Whelan Design
A U G 2 0 1 3 - N OV 2 0 1 7, E I N D H OV E N & D U B L I N
• Ran my own design business focused on product and user interface design for 4 years;
working out of Dublin and Eindhoven.
• Worked mainly with startups in-house in Ireland, the UK and The United States.
Paradigit / UI Designer
2 0 14 -2 0 16 , E I ND H OV EN
• Worked over an 18 month period as part of the Paradigit design team todesign and
develop the company’s new e-commerce experience in Europe.
Git, Overflow, Invision, Zeplin,
Creative Suite.
James Whelan
jameswhelan.co-
Product Designer
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WO R K E X P E R I E N C E C O N T D.
S K I L LS
BuyersClub / Junior Designer
Design
JAN 2012-AUG 2013, DUBLIN
IA, Wireframing, Userflows, Visual
• Began my design career as a UI\UX intern January 2012, before being hired as the
startup’s junior UI\UX designer in April.
Design, Sketching, Brand
Development, Design Team
Management, Extensive Workshop
and group ideation experience.
Research
App Analytics, Persona
hypothesis, User Interviewing,
Desirability Testing, Usability
Testing, Storyboarding.
Implementation
HTML, CSS, Wordpress,
Squarespace, JS.
Tools
Sketch, Figma, Abstract, Anima,
Git, Overflow, Invision, Zeplin,
Creative Suite.
