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About me

I'm Dan Whelan, a multidisciplinary designer and design leader living in, and working from, the south-east of Ireland. I design to solve problems and create great product experiences.

Currently, I'm driving product design at Tive.

Work

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My experience spans 15+ years across a variety of industries such as B2B SaaS, marketing automation, finance, classified ads (B2C and B2B), property (B2B and B2C), multimedia, networking and communications, to name a few.

Previously I have worked with brands and organisations such as:

  • HubSpot (Design Lead, 6 years)
  • Tive
  • DoneDeal.ie
  • Daft.ie
  • Adverts.ie
  • Nokia
  • RTE.ie
  • Meteor Mobile (now EIR)
  • Fine Gael
  • Small businesses and charities (gratis)

Skills and tools

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  • Solving problems, creating great user experiences and interfaces
  • User research, interviews, workshopping, analysis
  • Team alignment, project planning, stakeholder management
  • People management, mentorship, coaching and performance management
  • Lovable.dev, Perplexity/ChatGPT, Midjourney
  • Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Flinto, After Effects
  • Strong foundation in web design: CSS, HTML
  • Familiar with jQuery, PHP and MySQL
  • Print design and branding
  • Animation (After Effects, Flinto)

Personal

When I'm not working, I'm spending time with my partner and my two boys, Jack (16) and Ross (22 months), walking, playing video games or making music. I have a passing interest in philosophy and astrophysics. Generally, we play mostly PC games (rig: Nvidia 4090, 7950X3D, and a Rog Ally X handheld).

This website

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I'll be adding some work and blog entries over time. The stuff I write about - sometimes design related, other times not - is probably not that interesting for most, but it'll be indexed by Google (and generative AI) so maybe someone will stumble across it. I'll be writing my commentary on the design industry, some retrospectives on gaming, music, design, tech and mobile devices.