Dave Hone, designer

Hi, and welcome

My name is Dave

I’m a design consultant in Melbourne, Australia

What I do

  1. Qualitative research
    In-depth interviews
    Usability testing
    Workshops
  2. Quantitative insights
    Surveys
    Traffic analysis
    Brand monitoring
  3. Service design
    Service blueprints
    Process flows
    Digitisation
  4. Product design
    Personas and mindsets
    Journey mapping
    Wireframe prototypes

About me

  • Highly skilled: Written reporting
  • Highly skilled: Communication & presentation
  • Competent: Teamwork & mentoring
  • Learning: Leadership & management
  • Competent: Project & agile
  • Highly skilled: Facilitation & ideation
  • Highly skilled: Journeys & personas
  • Highly skilled: Information architecture
  • Highly skilled: Interface design
  • Highly skilled: Usability testing
  • Highly skilled: Wireframe prototypes
  • Highly skilled: Design audits
  • Learning: Process improvement
  • Competent: Service blueprints
  • Competent: Data analysis
  • Highly skilled: Quantitative surveys

My strengths are in requirements discovery and research activities.

I can add value to a team with the following characteristics:

  • needs to understand customer and business needs
  • has an established design system
  • needs qualitative and quantitative insights
  • has budget for primary research
  • has accountable product ownership
  • demonstrates constructive behaviours and relationships
  • values diversity.

Achievements

I’ve put my skills to use on hundreds of redesigns. A few recent projects included:

  • Generative research that drove 10% mobile app channel growth
  • Requirements discovery for 20 public and social sector projects
  • ISO/IEC 29100 compliant records management process
  • Service design for 10 digital SaaS migration projects
  • GUI design system for a large, complex educational institution
  • Web accessibility audits for three universities

Industry experience

  1. Entertainment and gaming

    • MCM Entertainment
    • SAI Interactive
    • Tabcorp
    • Tattersall’s
    • Sportsbet
  2. Finance and technology

    • Telstra
    • Commbank
    • ANZ
    • Squiz (SaaS)
    • Intracom (B2B)
  3. Education, museums and arts

    • RMIT University
    • Monash University
    • University of Canberra
    • University of Newcastle
    • National Museum of Australia
    • National Gallery of Victoria
  4. Government and community

    • Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions
    • Department of Justice & Regulation Victoria
    • Department of State Development, Business and Innovation Victoria
    • Neighbourhood Justice Centre
Portrait of Dave Hone, UX Designer

Let’s talk

I’d like to hear about your next project