Dónal O'MahonyStrategy, design and hands-on delivery.

Head of Product Design & Research at Canto. Previously VP of Product Design & Research at Contentful and Senior Director of UX at Verizon Connect.

Selected work

A design sprint that became the core of Contentful's AI Platform.

From a hackathon entry to a system drivers trust. It saved a life in its first week.

Purchase time cut from 2 days to a self-serve 9 minutes.

Learning apps for children who could not yet read. Apple Hall of Fame.

Two prediction models and live sightings. Designed, built and shipped solo.

Canto
Head of Product Design & ResearchCase study coming soon
Agentic-first platform redesign, a machine-readable design system and an AI-PDLC transformation.
Contentful
VP of Product Design & Research
Design through the shift from a developer-first headless CMS to an AI-powered platform for marketers.
Verizon Connect
Senior Director of UX Design, Content & User Research
UX for AI dashcams, self-serve growth, and a research practice built from zero.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Director of UX & Design
Award-winning learning apps used by millions of children.

VerizonVerizon Connect

9 minfrom 2 days

Time to buy / self‑serve

ContentfulContentful

4/5from 2.5

Score from non-tech users

VerizonVerizon Connect

50from −25 to +25

Compliance app NPS

HMHHMH

1 millionin the first month

App downloads