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 head up design at C&R, where I design 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 foremost maker of children’s interlocking plastic bricks.
Currently, I co-organise online talks for the lovely UX community and have mentored budding designers, teaching them the principles and craft of designing high-quality user interfaces. If you are curious to learn a little more, read my story.
Design work 01
Product design
Creating an engaging onboarding experience using behavioural design
An onboarding experience to solve the avalanche of content for compliance teams.
Website design
Promoting our design vision
Showcase for product design at Compliance & Risks, containing design principles, microcopy guidelines, components, and other resources.
Product design
Redesigning Mighty’s interface from the ground up
A redesign of Mighty's platform was badly needed to enhance usability, reduce complexity and create a modern experience.
Product design
Helping companies and their products stay safe and compliant
We created 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.
Website design
Building an engaging careers site for Ding Careers
Ding needed a dedicated careers site, something that reflected their personality, and also allowed them to tell their story.
Branding
Designing an eye-catching brand for HireHive
Branding and illustration for recruitment software platform.
Website design
Ryanair Labs (Oldie but goodie)
Designed and coded the Ryanir labs in record time.
Personal projects 02
Poster 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.
Poster design
Kubrick
Poster series featuring redesigned Kubrick film posters.
Photography
Street life
View my street photography on Instagram.
Poster design
Masters of perception
Poster series focusing on unique creatives.
Writing 03
Design 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.
Published on DOC Magazine
Design 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.
Design 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
User 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 Collective
Design process
A lean guide to using behavioural design for product teams
Behavioural design uses behavioural science, psychology and motivation to guide how people use our products.
Published on UX Collective
User 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
User experience
Our hero: Storymapping the user’s journey
This is the story of a novel and powerful way to visualise your user’s journey, and a traumatising childhood gaming experience.
Published on UX Collective
Design 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
Design 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.
Published on UX Collective
Originally published in Emergent print magazine
Design process
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
UI 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
Design 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