CV · Senior Product Designer
Alannah ByrneCurriculum Vitae
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.
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.
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.
Skills
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.
Research & experimentation
A/B testing, user interviews, usability testing, customer research, qualitative and quantitative analysis, competitor analysis.
Systems & collaboration
Design systems and scalable components, Figma, cross-functional work with Product and Engineering, stakeholder alignment, AI-assisted design workflows.
Ways of working
Agile product development, design thinking, prototyping, data-informed decision-making.
Languages
English (native), Dutch (beginner).
Education
references and a PDF copy on request