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Strategic Business Thinking for Designers

Activating Strategy

Customer experience achievements: 
– Leading the design of the ANZ.COM Global Navigation initiative, bringing the new customer driven IA onto .COM. This will involve a fundamental redesign of the primary navigation, hero banner, footer and on page navigation systems site-wide. 
– Helped bring ANZ.COM site search onto AEM to deliver a far better search experience for customers
– Helped first home buyers calculate their deposit more accurately with the Home Loan Deposit Calculator 
– Helped customers save for their next home with the redesigned Savings Calculator 

Internal / leadership: 
– Established ANZ.COM's first Living Style Guide to help us create consistent coherent page designs faster and with less effort than ever before.  
– Established the ANZ.COM Design Wall. This is a space for designers to print out and stick up their design work for the whole of .COM to see. 
– Established the weekly ANZ.COM Design Huddle. This is a time for designers on to share their work on the Design 

Senior Experience Designer

I spend 50% of my time at ANZ working on our Brand & Design System. Activities include:
- Working and communicating with a team of senior leaders such as our CMO and CDO
- Communicating with and engaging the design and engineering community to ensure alignment and buy-in
- Branding and visual identity development 
- Discovery research and synthesis 
- Usability testing and research
- Interaction and UI design

Design Lead (ANZ Brand & Design System) 

I currently spend 50% of my time at ANZ doing things like: 
- Leading a team of designers on anz.com
- Managing resourcing, budgets and priorities
- Stakeholder engagement 
- Demonstrating the business value of design to senior leaders 
- Working with Brand and senior leaders to establish a design vision for anz.com 
- Established the anz.com Living Style Guide that has allowed us to deliver better quality experiences faster 
- Providing guidance, leadership and support for squads working on anz.com

Experience Design Chapter Lead

I run mentoring workshops with Tractor students after hours

Mentor

I currently head up a 12+ member, multidisciplinary design system team. Our design system helps our delivery teams across our web and native app products do better work, faster. I create and activate strategy, interface with senior leaders to communicate progress and value and help coach and grow junior members of the team (design & engineering).

Head of Design Systems

Founder of Unified UI. 
Head of Design Systems at Carsales 
Design leader/ mentor

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Hamish O'Neill

Founder of Unified UI. Head of Design Systems at Carsales Design leader/ mentor