Designing Change, Leading People

“I’m passionate about building and empowering amazing design teams.”

 

Patrick’s mission is to build and mature global design teams, founded on and driven by a design thinking culture. His role is to enable, inspire and encourage curiosity and questioning; which leads to a deeper understanding to solve the right problems.

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Background

Patrick is currently Director of User Experience with Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group (a fortune 4 company) where he leads the global design teams within Optum’s Consumer Experience and Digital Product Team.

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Dublin UX

Patricks runs Dublin UX, which has been a stable of the Irish UX community since 2015. It has grown to over 4,000 members with over 55 live events since launch. Patrick is the organiser and host of what is Irelands largest design community event.

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Recent Talks and Articles

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Reflecting on 9 Years of Dublin UX: A Milestone Event at UXDX
Reflecting on 9 Years of Dublin UX: A Milestone Event at UXDX

I recently had the pleasure of hosting a milestone event for Dublin UX—our 55th event—at the UXDX conference.

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Accelerating Development using UI frameworks
Accelerating Development using UI frameworks

Recorded at UXDX Dublin in April 2019: In this talk Patrick talks about design systems and an example of how teams are positioned within a company to support other developers through the maintenance and development of a design system and UI framework.

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Our Design Thinking System (Designing Remotely)
Our Design Thinking System (Designing Remotely)

The web has removed the need for UX teams to be co-located and still thrive in areas like collaborative design thinking, prototyping and user testing and research. This talk aims to give as much practical advice, including tips and tricks of the software used on a daily bases.

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