About

Michael Heraghty

Michael Heraghty has been designing online since 1995. He worked in Dublin, Edinburgh, Los Angeles and New York with Vision Consulting, He became a design leader, managing designer, front-end developers and usability researchers.

Michael set up his own consulting business in 2003 working independently, or leading teams of designers and developers. Example clients / projects included:

• Irish Ferries – UX design review / user experience consulting
• Balsamiq – Usability testing of desktop product
• Bus Eireann – Mobile and web user testing
• An Post – UX reviews, customer research, design workshops, prototypes, user testing
• The Irish Times – Survey review, analytics review, UX review, stakeholder workshop
• Munich Re Automation Solutions – Contextual enquiry, usability testing and prototyping 
• AXA – Interaction design, contextual enquiry, storyboards, visual design direction
• Safefood – Usability review, interaction design, workshops, training, consulting, visual design
• Fidelity Investments – Interaction design, visual design
• Strata3 – Usability testing for various well-known private and public sector clients
• The Legal Aid Board – Interaction design, workshops, personas, contextual enquiry
• Jameson Irish Whiskey – Usability testing, UX reviews, presentation of report
• 3 – Usability review of shop online pharmacy section of website, report presentation
• Tourism Ireland -Web project management
• DELL – Interaction design and information architecture / card sorting workshop
• O2 – Bespoke usability training
• Allianz – Usability review of CMS

Since 2016, Michael has been working with retail analytics provider Clavis Insight, where he is the Head of UX. His role involves leading and managing the UX team, as well as creating a culture of user-centred design within Clavis.