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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.

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Professional experiences

2025 - present  |  Senior Design Researcher, Edinburgh, Scotland

Lloyds Banking Group - Investment & Pensions
 

  • 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.

  • Standardise research practices across lifecycle stages, improving reporting consistency and alignment with product, design, and engineering teams.

  • Mapped complex user journeys and facilitated cross-functional collaboration, influencing quarterly planning and high-impact opportunity prioritisation.

  • Applied ethnographic methods in sensitive areas and delivered 70+ interviews and workshops with customers and stakeholders.

  • 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.


  • Mapped the current state.


  • Facilitated 4 stakeholder workshops & ran 4 bilingual co-creation sessions in French and English.


  • Conducted 20+ user interviews.


Led a research pilot to adapt insurance products for newcomers in Canada.


  • Conducted competitive benchmarking, surveys, and user interviews.


  • Identified service gaps.


  • 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.


  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams.


  • Led user research and testing & conducted competitor analysis.

  • 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.

  • Transitioned from costly legacy platforms to scalable, modular systems serving 3M+ members.

  • Boost scheme retention while lowering platform maintenance costs.
     

Contribution journey optimization
 

  • Redesigned the contributions-upload platform for payroll managers, supporting 19,900+ monthly logins and 15,500+ payment uploads across legacy systems.


  • Achieved a 90% reduction in user errors during the data upload journey.

Investment feature overhaul
 

  • Improved investment-tracking feature for increased transparency & usability across the app and web.


  • 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

  • Figma/Miro

  • Excel/Airtable

  • They Do/Smaply

  • UI/UX TOSA Certification​

  • ​Photography/Videography

  • 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.

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