PATRICK McCLARY
Sportswriter turned Educator turned
Co-Founder turned UX Designer turned UX / UI Design Educator who's always
working to improve others' experiences to help them thrive.
UI/UX DESIGN LEAD
Led all efforts from research to analysis to visual design deliverable (and site build) for boutique gym
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 / analysis tool for internal AT&T team (under NDA)
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 > Wire > MVP > HiFi
• Test with real users
• Design for dev AND art
