# Danny Macdonald

> Lead Product Designer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/dannymacdonald

Portfolio: https://www.dannyalexmac.me/

## Work Experience
### Lead Product Designer @ Northwestern Mutual
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States
-Directly managed several mid-level designers working on software for financial planning and insurance sales
-Designed future states of complex digital financial applications aligning product org, engineering org, and design org visions, especially cross-app data integrations and workflows
-Developed and led a design internship program for undergrad and graduate designers
-Mentored product designers, user researchers, and content designers in the digital product org

### Senior Product Designer @ Northwestern Mutual
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
-Designed financial planning and insurance sales software for financial advisors 
-Managed design strategy and delivery across three Scrum teams of associate and mid-level designers working specifically on risk insurance products

### Product Designer @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
-Designed experiences within the Azure portal for IT administrators and developers, working on features such as role-based access control and application management
-Collaborated with designers, PMs, and engineers on the Azure Identity team within Cloud and AI Studios

### UX Designer @ T-Mobile
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
-Provided UX support for projects such as internal customer service support software, coverage map reporting tools for 5G expansions, and integrating legacy provisioning systems
-Worked on an Agile team with designers, researchers, developers, PMs, and stakeholders to support customer experience initiatives

### UX Designer @ Premera Blue Cross
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
-Redesigned internal health insurance reporting software to cut down on support call times and expedite onboarding of new support technicians
-Conducted user testing, designed process flows, and wireframed/prototyped interfaces to develop digital tools in an Agile environment

### UX Designer @ Chainlink Relationship Marketing
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
-Created low and high fidelity mockups of Chainlink Relationship Marketing platform, a B2B and B2C email marketing web application
-Developed a style guide for the web application and all marketing materials using material design guidelines
-Redesigned navigation and information architecture of web app using human-centered design principles
-Coordinated with offsite developers to implement new pages, style guide, and features for web application

### UX Designer @ American Society of Civil Engineers
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Reston, VA
-Wireframed low and high fidelity mockups of new ASCE conference microsite designs using Axure and Adobe Suite
-Presented microsite designs to major stakeholders within ASCE to gather feedback through cognitive walkthroughs
-Worked alongside in-house developers to implement new feature and page designs for ASCE main website
-Managed web team tickets through project management system


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Human Centered Design and Engineering
University of Washington
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor's Degree in Psychology (BS)
Tufts University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dannyalexmac
- Portfolio: http://dannyalexmac.me

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Last updated: 2026-03-30