About me
Hi, I'm Oona, a Franco-Irish senior service designer & design researcher with 5+ years of experience designing user-centric products and services in finance, insurance, and telecom.
I am skilled in customer lifecycle management,
journey optimisation, and data analysis, with expertise in user research, testing, wireframing, and prototyping.

Professional experiences
2025 - present | Senior Design Researcher, Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group - Investment & Pensions
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Led end-to-end research, shaping pension and investment platforms for 10M+ users, including the transition of 43,000+ schemes to a unified digital hub.
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Standardise research practices across lifecycle stages, improving reporting consistency and alignment with product, design, and engineering teams.
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Mapped complex user journeys and facilitated cross-functional collaboration, influencing quarterly planning and high-impact opportunity prioritisation.
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Applied ethnographic methods in sensitive areas and delivered 70+ interviews and workshops with customers and stakeholders.
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Mentor and coach to junior designers.
2024 | Service Design, Montréal, Canada
Intact Insurance
Conducted an end-to-end project to optimise the auto claims communication journey.
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Mapped the current state.
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Facilitated 4 stakeholder workshops & ran 4 bilingual co-creation sessions in French and English.
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Conducted 20+ user interviews.
Led a research pilot to adapt insurance products for newcomers in Canada.
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Conducted competitive benchmarking, surveys, and user interviews.
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Identified service gaps.
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Presented findings and recommendations to senior leadership.
2022 - 2023 | UX design, Cologne, Germany
Sensity, digital consultancy
Delivered UX research and designs for a range of clients, including Deutsche Telekom and ABB.
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Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams.
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Led user research and testing & conducted competitor analysis.
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Created wireframes and prototypes.
Impact
North star workplace hub
Led the North Star project to unify the company’s workplace platforms into a centralised hub.
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Transitioned from costly legacy platforms to scalable, modular systems serving 3M+ members.
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Boost scheme retention while lowering platform maintenance costs.
Contribution journey optimization
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Redesigned the contributions-upload platform for payroll managers, supporting 19,900+ monthly logins and 15,500+ payment uploads across legacy systems.
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Achieved a 90% reduction in user errors during the data upload journey.
Investment feature overhaul
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Improved investment-tracking feature for increased transparency & usability across the app and web.
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Delivered platform enhancements for 3.8M migrated customers and 586K+ active app users.
Projects & volunteering
2022 - to present | Audiovisual team lead
Service Design Global Conference - Worldwide
Ensuring seamless and swift delivery of visual assets for the events (photos, promotional videos and interviews).
2024 | Conference Speaker
Service Design Global Conference 2024
Talk subject: Cultivating Cultural Impact: Crafting Services for Scalable Success.
2022 - 2023 | Speaker experience team
SDN Young Talent Conference 2023
Crafting strategies to elevate presentation impact and audience engagement.
Methods
End-to-end experience design
Proven ability to create and embed experience design methods and frameworks from discovery to delivery, including personas, journey maps, and service blueprints.
Strategic research implementation
Proficient in managing quant & qual research processes and implementing design strategies that meet business goals while enhancing the end-user experience across physical and digital touchpoints.
Stakeholder partnership & alignment
Experienced in securing stakeholder buy-in through impactful storytelling with various levels of management, including senior executives and industry partners.
Customer lifecycle management
Well-versed in creating and shaping customer journeys with a user-centric mindset.
Business & data-driven decision making
Skilled at aligning business needs with data analytics and testing to measure & optimize design impact.
Skills
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Figma/Miro
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Excel/Airtable
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They Do/Smaply
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UI/UX TOSA Certification
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Photography/Videography
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Adobe Suite
Education
2020 - 2025 | Service Design
GSA (Scotland), KISD (Germany), POLIMI (Italy)
Masters in Service Design (MEDes)
2016 - 2019 | Product and Graphic Design
Duperré School of Art, Paris, France
Bachelor degree in Visual Communication.