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.
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.
Redesigning a well known source of support calls from frustrated customers on a B2B2C payment portal
Fixing odd shades of primary blue snowballs into creating a full design system
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
Creating an interface for a highly technical function for a non-technical user
Designing an internal product that was one-part internal marketing for all their software products, and one part idea/product management
From Coca-Cola and Sam’s Club to startups and summer camps, I’ve had the opportunity to design for some great projects.
Design is more than just making something look pretty, it's understanding how it should work and offering solutions
Having someone that knows your personas at the table will help when determining future features
Define, design, test, iterate, test again, iterate again. Rinse repeat.
Sketches and pixels are cheap, designs can be scrapped easily. Unused or underutilized code is expensive.
I may not always be right, but I’m always willing to share my experience and my feedback to help guide more junior designers
Viewing a product as a group of interconnected systems helps understand how changes in one area will affect the rest of the product