CV · Senior Product Designer

Alannah ByrneCurriculum Vitae

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Work history

Senior Product and Systems Designer Simvia

05/2024 → present

  • Lead design across a multi-sided digital platform, creating intuitive experiences for users with very different needs and workflows.

  • Translate complex requirements into clear customer journeys, interaction patterns and UI through early prototyping and iterative testing.

  • Work with Product, Engineering and Data from problem framing to delivery, keeping designs customer-focused and technically feasible.

  • Simplify multi-step journeys and complex information so users can finish tasks with less friction and more confidence.

  • Run user interviews and usability testing to find friction, validate concepts and inform product decisions.

  • Built and scaled the design system and Figma processes, creating a more consistent UI and significantly reducing design and delivery time.

  • Introduced AI-assisted design workflows to speed up exploration, prototyping and design-system development.

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Product Designer → Senior Product Designer GagaMuller Group

06/2023 – 03/2025

  • Designed consumer-facing digital experiences across web and mobile, using continuous experimentation to improve engagement and conversion.

  • Increased user engagement by 40% through mobile-first improvements and ongoing optimisation of the customer experience.

  • Worked in short cycles of prototype, test, learn and ship, using A/B testing to validate design decisions.

  • Built and scaled a design system that reduced design and delivery time by 60%, enabling faster experimentation and more consistent UI.

  • Used qualitative research alongside product data to surface friction the metrics alone didn't show.

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Quality Assurance Analyst Accenture / Meta

06/2021 – 06/2023

  • Worked at scale on consumer products, turning user feedback and quality data into concrete product improvements.

  • Analysed where users hit friction and used quality insights to identify opportunities for improvement.

  • Managed a team of 25 analysts, coordinating work and holding quality across a large-scale operation.

Product Analyst Accenture / Meta

07/2019 – 06/2021

  • Analysed product data to identify inefficiencies, user pain points and opportunities to improve digital experiences.

  • Worked across Product, Engineering and Operations to turn findings into practical product improvements.

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Skills

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Product & UX

End-to-end product design from discovery to delivery and optimisation, UX/UI and interaction design, customer journey design, conversion optimisation, mobile-first design.

02

Research & experimentation

A/B testing, user interviews, usability testing, customer research, qualitative and quantitative analysis, competitor analysis.

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Systems & collaboration

Design systems and scalable components, Figma, cross-functional work with Product and Engineering, stakeholder alignment, AI-assisted design workflows.

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Ways of working

Agile product development, design thinking, prototyping, data-informed decision-making.

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Languages

English (native), Dutch (beginner).

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Education

WhenWhat
03/2026 – 05/2026Certificate of AI SystemsInto Design Systems.
01/2022 – 01/2023Higher Diploma in UX DesignUX Design Institute.
02/2021 – 02/2022MSc in Interactive Digital MediaGriffith College.
01/2015 – 08/2019BA (Hons) in Creative Digital MediaTechnological University Dublin.

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