Antony Conboy

UI/UX Designer, dCloud Platform

Joined as contract Lead UX Designer (2018–2020); permanent since 2020. IC lead: sole designer for the platform, leading through cross-functional ownership and influence rather than line management.

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  Platform ownership: Sole designer across Cisco's dCloud demo platform portfolio (dCloud, Topology Builder, Expo, AEM) serving 100,000+ users globally — partnering daily with the Product Owner on platform vision and presenting design direction to VP, SVP and C-level leadership for development.

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  Design system: Created the Sales Org UI Kit, a modular design system of reusable components and patterns adopted across multiple internal products — cutting design-to-development time by 30% and unifying the organisation's interaction language.

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  Product vision: Defined the product vision, principles and end-to-end design for Topology Builder — transforming complex network data into intuitive interfaces used by 10,000+ sales engineers to build virtual demo environments, replacing physical kit and saving days of setup and thousands of dollars in hardware per demo.

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  Customer-facing product: Designed Expo, Cisco's customer-facing demo and event portal — a self-service platform that has powered 1,000+ events worldwide; presented the product to customers at Cisco Live and ran in-person customer interviews to feed insight back into the roadmap.

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  Revenue connection: Currently designing dCloud's Salesforce integration to connect demo activity directly to deal revenue, and integrating CPOC (Customer Proof of Concept) — the route for Cisco's highest-value deals — into the dCloud catalogue.

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  AI product: Designed and shipped Document Hub, an AI-powered product that generates production-ready demo documentation — designing the generative AI user flows end-to-end and writing the production code myself with Claude and Cursor.

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  AI prototyping: Built a single advanced prototype of the entire platform vision in Figma Make and Claude (replacing dozens of fragmented prototypes) and presented it to the Sales Organisation as the showcase for AI-driven design.

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  Team & culture: Mentored 3 design interns, founded a design internship programme with Carmel College, and contributed to design hiring — interviewing and recommending designers at both Cisco and Barclays.

Director & UX Educator

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  Built a £100k+ design education business — 40,000+ YouTube subscribers (2M+ views), 1,000+ students through a 5-star-rated product design course, and a podcast interviewing founders and design recruiters.

Lead UX Designer

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  Co-founded the Barclays Design Council and led creation of the Barclays Design Language — a modular system adopted across the entire digital ecosystem, halving design and development time for consumer financial products used by millions.

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  Led the award-winning responsive redesign of barclays.co.uk (300 pages, 130M+ annual visits) — winner of Best Financial Website — defining vision, principles and IA from discovery to launch; validated through usability and A/B testing and built to WCAG accessibility standards.

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  Ran discovery research with 50+ Barclaycard customers — qualitative interviews and in-person usability testing — translating behavioural insight into validated redesigns of credit card journeys.

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  Managed a cross-functional team of 10 to deliver bespoke financial tools on time across a complex, multi-workstream programme.

Senior Designer

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  Won three multi-million-pound client contracts; delivered end-to-end e-commerce platforms for Max Mara, Marina Rinaldi and Canali, balancing commercial outcomes with exceptional visual craft.

Senior UX Designer

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  Led UX and interaction design for BBC.co.uk (5 billion annual visits) — discovery workshops, usability testing and experimentation that cut bounce rate by 20%, designing to the BBC's accessibility standards, directly supporting audience engagement and commercial goals.

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  Founded the BBC Design Council, uniting 10+ designers around shared standards and reducing design duplication by 30%.

Senior Designer

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  Led a team of 5 to design and launch Vogue's first native iPad app — rich motion, gesture navigation, embedded video and interactive editorial. Winner, Best Fashion Magazine, DMA Digital Magazine Awards 2011.

Designer

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  Co-designed Wired's iPad app, the UK's first digital magazine — motion design, interactive infographics and gesture-driven interaction throughout, collaborating with Adobe and Apple. Winner, Best Overall Digital Magazine & Best Technology Magazine, DMA 2011.

Design Intern

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  Designed three Glamour iPhone apps alongside placements across Vogue, GQ and The Official Ferrari Magazine.