My name is Don McAllister and I’m a designer with over 15 years’ experience, an eye for detail, a love of tech, and an empathy for users’ needs.

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Portfolio

It’s difficult to capture an extensive career in a few screengrabs, but the examples below will hopefully give you a feel for the breadth of my skills. For a more in-depth look into my strategy, sketching, wireframing, prototyping and decision making abilities – download my case studies.

Case studies (24MB)
GATHER TECHNOLOGIES

Payment Portal

Redesigning a well known source of support calls from frustrated customers on a B2B2C payment portal

Research
UX
UI
“I cannot recommend Don McAllister enough. He was consistently one of the fastest, most collaborative and responsive product designers I’ve ever worked with.
His substantial background enables him to manage other teammates when required, and speaks to his versatility as an employee. Any company would be lucky to have him, and I hope to work with him again one day!”
– Alex / Senior Director of User Experience, Turntide
DELOITTE

Design System

Fixing odd shades of primary blue snowballs into creating a full design system

UX
Design System
“Don has done an excellent job of settling in his role in a team that was looking for some elevated stability and direction. He had a seemingly immediate impact on their output and process and what was systemically a reactive development led team has become a much more user centric process driven product team.
He's been able to take feedback from product leadership and turn that into meaningful results, has great executive presence, and an ability to keep a level head in an environment that was once wrought with prescriptive direction from product and engineering. In the next quarter, Don will be taking over more of this responsibility for projects from the Atlanta-based design team.”
– Jeremy / Senior Manager User Experience, Honeywell
HONEYWELL

Notifications

A admin interface project turns into a full-fledged research effort when it’s discovered that no one team has an end-to-end view of notifications

UX
Research
Information Architecture
HONEYWELL

Integrations

Creating an interface for a highly technical function for a non-technical user

UX
UI
THE HOME DEPOT

Product Management

Designing an internal product that was one-part internal marketing for all their software products, and one part idea/product management

Research
UX
UI
VARIOUS

Visual Design

From Coca-Cola and Sam’s Club to startups and summer camps, I’ve had the opportunity to design for some great projects.

Branding
UI
“I appreciate you pairing up with me from the day I moved onto the team, on-boarding me to all of the intricate details and pieces of SSA Builder, following up after meetings, and mapping out the UX team’s vision.
You’ve worn so many hats – from being a UX designer to being the UX manager – in the past months and have always been my go-to person when I needed help. You’ve done more than enough while taking the lead and constructing a direction for the team. Thank you so much for all you do and have done, Don.”
– Julie / UX team member, Honeywell

Areas of
Expertise

Complex problem solving

Design is more than just making something look pretty, it's understanding how it should work and offering solutions

Strategic planning

Having someone that knows your personas at the table will help when determining  future features

Design-centric innovation

Define, design, test, iterate, test again, iterate again. Rinse repeat.

Prototyping & wireframing

Sketches and pixels are cheap, designs can be scrapped easily. Unused or underutilized code is expensive.

Staff mentoring
& leadership

I may not always be right, but I’m always willing to share my experience and my feedback to help guide more junior designers

Systems
thinking

Viewing a product as a group of interconnected systems helps understand how changes in one area will affect the rest of the product