Sean O’Shea is a UX leader, strategist, researcher, accessibility advocate, and front‑end dev with 13+ years of agency experience across diverse industries.

Thirteen years of well-rounded UX experience — a decade at the senior, lead, and director level. Two boutique web and app design firms, as well as a full-service digital advertising agency. Deep experience with higher-ed, non-profits, start-ups, ed-tech, research and policy, museums, and global health.

Tackling complex problems. Building trust, consensus, and momentum towards a shared vision. Empowering stakeholders to provide confident, actionable feedback. Collaborating with developers, project managers, and stakeholders. Understanding and advocating for users. Writing code. Championing accessibility. Creating comprehensive Figma component systems.

Meet people where they are. Designers are toolmakers. Fail quickly to succeed quickly. Feedback is a gift. Universal design is ethical design. Be a facilitator. Question assumptions. Define the problem. Play. Have a learning mindset. There’s always more than one solution. See and align efforts toward the bigger picture. Empathy is the key to resonance. You are not your user.

BFA, graphic design.

• stakeholder workshops
• design thinking exercises
• accessibility audits
• heuristic evaluations
• analytics audits
• surveys and focus groups
• moderated user testing
• unmoderated user testing
• card-sorting
• navigation tree testing

• user flows and journey maps
• persona development
• sitemaps and IA
• content and data modeling
• modular component systems
• wireframes and prototyping
• functional docs

• spectrum polling
• moodboards
• styleguides
• atomic design
• figma component systems
• high-fidelity layouts

• accessibility
• semantic HTML and pug
• CSS and sass
• javascript / node
• gulp and express
• SVG and canvas

Snapshots of my work on larger projects. Challenges, approaches, solutions, results. Example artifacts like slides and wireframes, and links to sample Figma files.

Articles on a variety of topics—from AI and accessibility to usability and front-end development.

Figma plugins, NPM packages, and Github repositories I’ve created and published for the community.

Lead UX roles — either agency or in-house.

UX director at Savas Labs (6-year tenure)

Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5)

GitHub, Figma, CodePen, StackOverflow, and LinkedIn.

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