Patrick McClary

Sportswriter turned Educator turned Entrepreneur turned UX Designer turned UX / UI Design Educator who's always

working to improve others' experiences to help them thrive.

UX & PITCH STRATEGY

Making eCommerce - and their
top-selling product - fun again on both web and mobile

RESEARCH & DESIGN

Got an inside look at how grocery stores operate to design a task management Android app

UX DESIGN LEAD

Research, ideated and designed a robust forecasting and analysis tool for internal AT&T team

FROM RFP TO DEV

Revolutionizing and modernizing the way Texans transact with their government agencies

UX & CREATIVE LEAD

Concepted an online community to drive niche industry retail sales

*Case study passwords available upon request (and if you ask nicely)

TOOLS OF MY TRADE

Strategy

Research

Project Management

Communication

Design

• Define the problem

• Identify the target audience

• Get user insight immediately

• Understand the business need

• Involve your team from Step 1

• User & SME interviews

• Competitive analysis

• Heuristic evaluations

• Utilize researched patterns

• Design inspiration

• Prioritize, point & scope

• Agile / Lean methodologies

• Trello, Jira, Monday, GDrive

• Serve as a player/coach to creatively direct / manage

• Slack, MS Teams

• Explain the "why" along with the what & how

• Listen intentionally

• Use LOTS of yellow

• Data-driven design

• Figma, Sketch, InVision

• Idea > MVP > HiFi

• Test with real users

• Design for dev, not art

LET'S CHAT. BIG FAN OF COFFEE & BEER.

Proudly based in Denver, CO • pmcclary@gmail.com • LinkedIn

Above all things, I care about helping others thrive.