Neil Mackay Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, CA, US

• Collaborated closely with product management and engineering teams to enhance the design system and integrate Fugue features, resulting in an increase in platform adoption.
• Led the design and implementation of new features, ensuring consistency and accessibility across digital touchpoints, supporting Snyk Cloud's feature development.
• Conducted design audits and facilitated design reviews, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and system coherence, improving design quality.

Remote

• Enhanced the maintenance of the design system and designed new feature mockups based on user feedback, leading to a positive improvement in user satisfaction.
• Implemented user-centric designs in React, fostering a collaborative environment for cross-disciplinary teams to contribute to the design system effectively.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Kombucha brewing business focused on making great tasting kombucha using only natural ingredients with sustainability and ethical business practices in mind.
• Branding and package design, which includes the design of the labels, boxes, business cards, promotional content and products.
• Designed the website using UI/UX practices focusing on layouts, buttons, typography, colours and a responsive design using Sketch.

Remote

• Initiated and developed a structured design system across four product families, improving design consistency and operational efficiency.
• Researched and implemented accessibility improvements, ensuring compliance with WCAG AA standards and enhancing user accessibility.

Remote

• Produced user-friendly web designs, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and mobile responsiveness, enhancing user engagement.
• Collaborated with back-end developers, writing front-end HTML, CSS, JS, and Bootstrap for a seamless integration process.

• Executing design briefs to develop one-page website demos in HTML and CSS.
• Writing of HTML and CSS code to create webpages of the design mockups.
• Fixing of layout issues.
• Testing of web pages for cross-browser compatibility.
• Work closely with the owner to ensure the development of the received design is to the correct standard.

Remote

• Completed a redesign of The School Bell web platform to further accelerate their growth.
• Worked closely with the CEO & CMO doing weekly check-ins on Google Hangouts as well as continuous communications through email.
• Designed with the focus on guiding the user to the CTA's and improved the overall consistency of the layout.
• Researched and implemented SEO improvements.

Worldwide

• Worked in the super yachting industry on a number of different vessels ranging from 40m to 74m, starting as a Deckhand and working up to the role of Chief Officer in 2015.
• Bridge navigation watch, passage planning, maintaining paperwork and safety documentation.
• Maintaining the exterior of the vessel, tender driving.
• Managing and training of crew members.

• A minimalistic digital journal for entrepreneurs to help them focus on getting their daily and weekly tasks done.
• Designed and created the journal using Adobe and Apple programs.
• Conducted user research and testing over four months, with prototypes and surveys. Used the data collected from the results to improve the design.
• Created social media content, including digital mockups and product photos.
• Graphic design and copywriting for social media posts.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Developed a user-friendly design for an online e-commerce marketplace that was easy to use for both customers and clients.
• Created the design concept of the platform from beginning to finish by generating drafts and then implementing them.
• Monitored designs after implementation doing user research and making improvements for the visual experience where needed.
• Added new client pages to the website continuously.
• Worked on graphic design, including visual elements such as logos, banner displays, invoices.
• Assisted in writing content and copy, including blog posts and proofreading/editing client's content to help promote traffic and sales.

Coursera - Graphic Design Specialization, Graphic Design

This four-course sequence exposes students to the fundamental skills required to make sophisticated graphic design: process, historical.

Coursera - User Interface Design Specialization, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia And Information Resources Design

Concepts and techniques covered include structured approaches for helping you understand your user base and their needs (e.g. contextual.

Front End Web Development

Focused on expanding my knowledge on front end web development

Front End Web Develeopment

Expanded my knowledge on HTML and CSS as well as learnt more on Javascript through the online courses and activities