Gareth Chainey

An Aussie product designer in the USA.

I've got 10+ years of experience designing and thinking about products. I love testing out ideas via experiments and creating delightful experiences.

Me talking to Australia about UX

SEEK is the Australian and Asian Pacific leading job marketplace. Here I am talking about what a day in the life of a UX designer is like to help people with their career decisions.

Highlights

Get a taste of the work I've done before committing to a deep dive.

Using Continuous Discovery to create value

How experimentation helped us quickly pivot to find a solution that exceed expectations.

Building a robust User Interface

How I reworked a UI to be more flexible and withstand change.

Bringing HEART to the team

How bringing in customer centric metrics helped us achieve better business outcomes.

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Some kind words from those I've worked with

Gareth is a pleasure to work with and an asset to any team. He is diligent in discovery, passionate about the end user, empathetic, and collaborative in his approach. When working together as a product team, Gareth is a champion for ensuring the team is consistently choosing OKRs that actually meet user needs, talking to users, testing, iterating, and experimenting when needed. He is excellent at leading user interviews, enabling the team to collect and extract actionable insights.

Richard Simms

Principal Product Designer

I had the pleasure of working alongside and managing Gareth, he is a talented senior UX designer, who can independently drive projects forward. He consistently took the initiative to lead discovery phases, unearthing valuable insights that helped steer our product direction.

His designs reflected a deep understanding of our users, combined with a mastery of UX principles. He has a meticulous attention to detail and craft are evident in everything he produces, elevating the overall quality of our products.

Ahmed Hakeem

Staff Engineer

It's always a pleasure working with a UX designer like Gareth who embraces the fluid nature of continuous discovery and software development.

I have many fond memories working closely with Gareth, bouncing ideas around and jamming out features end to end from fake door tests, experimentations to soft launch and deployment. At every step Gareth was inquisitive, collaborative and and open to thinking on their feet.

Truly a developers best friend, I would love to work with him again in the future!

David Deville

Senior Content Designer

Gareth goes above and beyond when it comes to designing for the needs of the customer. A lot of the products we've built together have started as thought bubbles from customer interviews. Gareth nurtured these ideas into solutions that solved real user problems. That involved fast experimentation, elegant designs and constant iteration to improve the solution. And it resulted in products like an AI-powered resume generator and skills-based course finder that genuinely helped candidates find more fulfilling careers. Most importantly, Gareth is a positive, creative and likeable teammate, and I'd love to work with him again in the future.

Henry Vesander

Chief Product Officer

Gareth is an outstanding UX/ product designer. I hired him into a UX designer role that was focused on building a cloud-based practice management system (SaaS). This required learning about customer needs, prototyping, design validation with internal and external parties, facilitating workshops, and building a UX component library. He is a driven individual that can be trusted in getting the job done once given guidance and a brief. I definitely recommend Gareth!