I'm David Hall, a Senior Product Designer, focusing on user experience, creativity and how language and psychology work together to shape great experiences.
I lead design at C&R, where I create enterprise solutions for many of the largest and most interesting companies around, including the top 10 electronics manufacturers, top 3 sporting labels, coolest gaming company, largest furniture retailer and the foremost maker of children’s interlocking plastic bricks.
I have co-organised online talks for the lovely UX community and mentored budding designers, teaching them the principles and craft of designing high-quality user interfaces.
Design work 01
DesignSaaS Product
Designing a powerful compliance solution for the world's leading companies
I helped build an enterprise solution, so the biggest companies in the world can keep track of the thousands of regulations and standards from around the world through our C2P Product Compliance platform.
DesignSaaS Product
Mighty’s new interface
A redesign of Mighty's financial platform was badly needed to enhance usability, reduce complexity and create a modern experience.
DesignSaaS Product
Onboarding experience using behavioural design
I created an onboarding experience to solve the avalanche of content for compliance teams.
DesignStyle guide
A new design language for Compliance & Risks
Showcase for product design at Compliance & Risks, containing design principles, microcopy guidelines, components, and other resources.
DesignCareers site
Ding Careers website
Ding needed a dedicated careers site, something that reflected their personality, and also allowed them to tell their story.
DesignBranding
HireHive branding
Branding and illustration for recruitment software platform.
DesignCareers site
Ryanair Labs website
Designed and coded the Ryanir labs in record time. This is an oldie, but goodie.
Personal projects 02
ProjectBook design
Science Ficiton Classics
Redesigns of famous and unique science fictions novels.
ProjectPoster design
Kubrick
Poster series featuring redesigned Kubrick film posters.
ProjectPhotography
Street life
View my street photography on Instagram.
ProjectPoster design
Lost cities
When we have colonised other worlds, explorers will come back and discover our ancient cities. What will remain are the rivers that they were once built on. This is a poster series based on this concept.
ProjectPoster design
Masters of perception
Poster series focusing on unique creatives.
Writing 03
ArticleUser experience
The essential guide to Microcopy and becoming a more literate designer
Designers should not be mere decorators, but have an understanding of language and microcopy, which is a crucial design skill, now more than ever.
Published on UX Magazine 
ArticleDesign history
Graphic notation: A brief history of visualising music
Design and music intersect in many areas, yet one relatively obscure but creative area is in the design of graphic notation by composers.
Originally published on DOC Magazine
ArticleDesign philosophy
Creating a design philosophy for yourself and your company
Design philosophy can feel like the fashion equivalent of the turtleneck, but it doesn't have to be.
Published on LogRocket
ArticleDesign process
The starter guide to using behavioral design
Behavioral design uses behavioral science and psychology to guide how people use our products.
Published on LogRocket
ArticleDesign process
Making smarter UX design decisions with the Cynefin framework
The Cynefin framework is a sense-making tool created by Dave Snowden that helps to identify the nature of a problem, and the best approach to solve UX design problems.
Published on LogRocket
ArticleUI design
The essential elements of login screen design
Login screen design is not the sexiest of topics, yet without attention, the login screen can literally make or break a product experience.
Published on LogRocket
ArticleDesign history
The Vignelli Canon: a design classic from the last of the modernists
Massimo Vignelli's views feel unfashionable today, yet, younger designers can learn much from the Canon.
Published on UX Collective
ArticleDesign process
Chaos, Derrida and pigeons: Things I learnt from Dave Snowden
To hear Dave Snowden talk at Design Thinking Ireland was to be treated to an avalanche of fascinating and deeply interconnected ideas like no other. The talk also seriously overwhelmed my sketchnoting abilities.
Published on UX Magazine
ArticleUser experience
Storytelling: Designing the user’s journey with UX story mapping
This is the story of a novel and powerful way to visualise your user’s journey, and a traumatising childhood gaming experience.
Published on LogRocket
ArticleUser experience
Design principle: Effective listening through reflective questioning
Listening is a vital UX skill we can all get better at, and a chatbot experiment from the 1960s teaches us how.
Published on UX Magazine
ArticleDesign history
The Barry Lyndon poster is a design classic, not designed by Saul Bass
The poster is an iconic masterpiece that contains interesting layers of inaccurate attribution.
Published on UX Collective
ArticleDesign history
Cardew’s Treatise: The greatest musical score ever designed
The ‘Mount Everest’ of graphical musical scores, Treatise still surprises with its invention and beauty. It is also one of the finest f*ck yous to the musical establishment ever created.
Originally published in Emergent Magazine (05)
ArticleDesign history
Pilot error, Chapanis and the shape of things to come
How Alphonse Chapanis, a young psychologist, saved the lives of WWII pilots through clever design.
Published on UX Collective
ArticleUI design
Design detail: Crafting better shadows for interaction
Shadow doesn’t get as much love as other design elements, such as cool colour palettes or super sexy shapes, but it is vital in communicating interaction. reatise still surprises with its invention and beauty. It is also one of the finest fuck yous to the musical establishment ever created.
Published on UX Collective
ArticleDesign process
Design principle: Avoid the need to ask the question
Steve Job'’'s challenge to the engineers of the first iPad keyboard is an excellent lesson to us all.
Published on UX Collective