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

My experience with Don has been excellent. He is a talented artist and a tremendous user experience designer – with a healthy dose of engineer mixed in as well. When he joined my team, he took ownership of an interface that had deep design and technical issues.

He never complained; he prioritized the changes that would have the most benefit to the user experience, and proceeded to lead the UI dev team to implement them. The results were dramatic. Further, he helped to mentor our UI dev team in HTML best practices, significantly improving the code. Many small changes he was able to do himself, saving the delay inherent in offshore development.
Don has really taught me to appreciate the the powerful effect that many subtle design decisions, made consistently with the eye of an artist, can have on the software user experience.

– Ken Product Development Manager, Deloitte iLab

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

Created some of the most amazing UI/UX designs I've seen in my multi decade career. Great person to work with!

– Carlos Senior Front End Developer, Turntide

Highly recommended. Don excels at taking high level concepts and producing quality designs on the first try.

From there, it’s a short path to final designs. Don is a great listener. He uses what he’s heard to drive his designs, instead of imposing his will on the client. It’s another mark of his deep experience and professional maturity.

– Don CEO, Bluenose Analytics