Cormac McGloin
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since July 21, 2020
Cormac is a design consultant who has helped businesses understand their customers and grow their products for over seven years. He has worked with companies both big and small, including Topshop, Lufthansa, L'Oréal, Harrods, Zoopla, and Topshop. Combining an eye for visual design with a methodical approach to research and front-end development skills, he has taken projects from the planning stages right through to implementation.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior UI Designer
Arroe
- Designed a mobile app prototype used at large technology events to show off the concept of the app. This helped attract buyers and investors.
- Designed a website for the charging solution and mobile app.
- Created user flows to help map out all the possible user scenarios.
Senior Design Consultant
Zoopla
- Planned, designed, and helped build a centralized design system. It included foundational elements such as typography, grid, spacing, color, as well as more complex components like filtering and cards.
- Carried out usability sessions to inform key decisions on improving the experience of key areas of the website and app.
- Gathered and distilled internal feedback on the staff onboarding experience to help improve it.
- Improved the user interface of the homepage and updated the content to support a seasonal campaign.
Senior UX/UI Designer
River Island
- Redesigned the product listings page to improve the efficiency and experience of buying clothing.
- Conducted usability sessions and user interviews to understand the issues with the old website.
- Built an interactive, coded prototype to test the new designs with users.
Senior UI Designer
Topshop
- Helped to unify the design patterns across mobile and desktop.
- Documented the newly unified design patterns into a pattern library.
- Created concept pages for the product details page across mobile and desktop devices.
Lead Designer
Catapult Sports
- Analyzed the old site's information architecture and content and restructured it to improve the user's understanding of the product.
- Redesigned the website of one of their consumer sports products.
- Converted the designs into a custom WordPress theme.
Education
Bachelor of the Arts Degree in Photography
University of East London - London, England
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Zeplin, Principle, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Git, InVision
Languages
CSS, HTML, PHP
Platforms
Figma, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), WordPress, GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP)
Other
Photography, UX Design, UI Design, Product Design, User Journey Maps, User-centered Design (UCD), Graphic Design, Usability Testing, React, Gatsby, User Interviews, Prototyping, Ideation, White Papers, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Design Systems, User Flows, Documentation, Component Libraries, User Workshops, Collaboration, Questionnaires, Front-end, Analytics, Stakeholder Interviews, User Journeys, Mobile Prototypes, Animated Prototypes
Experience
- CSS - 15 years
- Graphic Design - 15 years
- Photography - 14 years
- UX Design - 7 years
- User-centered Design (UCD) - 7 years
- User Journey Maps - 7 years
- UI Design - 7 years
- Product Design - 3 years
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