Daniel O’Hara
Design Engineer
Dan is a designer with a decade of experience in web, apps and services.
5x Good Design Awards working in startups, agencies and corporates across public services, finance, agriculture, climate change and education. Currently exploring language education and agents in design.
Senior Product Designer2025 – Present
HCF Health InsuranceCanberra, Australia

Working in a product team supporting International insurance for student, visitor and worker visa holders.

  • Web marketing, SEO and AEO
  • Cross-platform self-service apps and portals
  • AI-enabled rapid prototyping
  • Coaching collaboration and agility
  • Agentic design, skills, info management and workflows
Design Lead2024 – 2025
Good CollectiveCanberra, Australia

Contract agency, primarily working with Australian Department of Agriculture on product and service design. Created a new Export Licence product and service with the complexities of legacy systems, and designed a custom form builder.

  • Applied design systems
  • Digital transformation
  • Data driven agentic AI
  • Prompt engineering and workflows
  • Back stage service design
Senior Product Designer2020 – 2024
Future FriendlyCanberra, Australia

Designer at a design agency working with clients to design problem solving products and services. Mixed range of projects including short design strategy engagements, north star prototyping, roadmapping, and longer term 0→1 platforms. Acquired by EY in 2024.

  • Design sprints
  • Rapid prototyping
  • User research and ResearchOps
  • Design strategy
  • Narratives and storytelling
  • Workshop design and facilitation
User Experience Designer2018 – 2020
Oakton DigitalCanberra, Australia

Consultancy working on large scale digital transformation projects for clients. Acquired by NTT in 2020.

  • Ideation and co-design
  • UX Design
  • 0→1 design systems
  • DesignOps
  • Agile methodologies and tooling
  • Field research
Design Co-founder2015 – 2018
Defusion DesignAdelaide, Australia

Building iOS apps with a technical co-founder. Designed Snapchat client (38th on App Store) and meditation sound player.

  • iOS and Apple API's
  • Grassroots marketing
  • Product design
UI Designer2014 – 2015
wknd teamAdelaide, Australia

Designer volunteering at a startup for experience. Created design for exciting nightclub and music venue guest-list management app for iOS and iPadOS.

  • UI Design
  • Responsive Design