David Hall Designer & Writer
I’m a senior product designer who builds clear, scalable digital products for brands like Apple, Samsung, and Lego. I’m also a contributor to UX Magazine, LogRocket and UX Collective and an active artist and photographer.
Recent work
ESG Labs
AI-powered compliance for intelligent ESG
I helped build an AI compliance product in 3 months, simplifying global ESG rules for the world's largest companies.
DOCOsoft
Transforming the financial experience through a product redesign
How a user-centred redesign drove both significant claim efficiency and genuine, widespread user satisfaction.
Customer onboarding
Cutting through the noise to deliver relevant compliance insights, faster
How a new flow reduced complexity and accelerated time to value for C2P Compliance.
EUR-Lex
Reimagining an AI search experience for the EU
The challenge was to create a search for European lawmakers that provided precise results for informed decision making.
Tennis Club Connect
Simplifying the search for local tennis clubs
I built Tennis Club Connect as a personal project, designing, developing and testing it.
HireHive
Designing an eye-catching brand for HireHive
I designed a memorable brand for HireHive, a recruiting platform that handles over two million job applications.
Articles
Shifting the design process from micro to macro
Designers must now grasp AI fundamentals to shape its input and output in large-scale design.
Published on LogRocket
Avoiding pitfalls of AI: guiding principles
In the fast-evolving AI landscape, how can designers harness AI's power responsibly?
Published on LogRocket
Microcopy and becoming a more literate designer
Designers should not be mere decorators, but have an understanding of language and microcopy, now more than ever.
Graphic notation: A brief history of visualising music
Discover the fascinating world of graphic notation, where music composition meets visual design in unique ways.
Originally published on DOC MagazineDesign 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.
Making smarter design decisions with the Cynefin framework
The Cynefin framework is a sense-making tool that helps to identify the nature of UX problems.
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.
Pilot error, Alphonse Chapanis and the shape of things to come
The story of Alphonse Chapanis, a psychologist whose clever design during WWII saved pilots' lives and shaped human factors.
Published on UX Collective
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Available for consulting work.