Mona Sweeney
UX/UI Designer · Belfast, Northern Ireland
Product designer with a background in textile design and over three years designing complex digital products in the food industry. I specialise in compliance-heavy, high-stakes workflows, building design systems that scale and working closely with developers to get the details right in code. In my current role we're using AI to speed up design system maintenance, from auditing components to having Claude compare Figma designs against what's in production.
Experience
UX/UI Designer
Foods Connected · Belfast
- Design compliance, quality and supply chain tools used across the food industry, from research and wireframes through to high-fidelity designs and developer handover.
- Led the end-to-end redesign of Document Manager across four workstreams, delivered on schedule with sign-off in two review passes.
- Ran usability research on Schedule Manager and turned the findings into prioritised design changes for the team's sprints.
- Auditing a decade-old design system across two codebases with an AI-assisted research pipeline, with 20 component audits completed so far.
- Lead designer on an AI document onboarding hackathon project that shipped a working MVP in one day.
- Work closely with developers on the shadcn component library and colour token system.
Textile Designer
Ulster Weavers · Belfast
Designed prints and patterns for the company's retail range and for individual clients. Led research and trend analysis, managed projects to tight deadlines and facilitated lean meetings.
Freelance Textile Designer
MatchyMatchy Print Design Studio · London, remote
Pattern design for a London fashion print studio, working with clients entirely online.
Fashion Design Intern
Iris van Herpen · Amsterdam
Created garment patterns and textile samples in a fast-paced couture studio, supporting the development of the collection.
Skills
- Figma
- Design systems
- User research
- Usability testing
- Prototyping
- Wireframing
- shadcn
- Tailwind
- Next.js
- Claude
- Jira
- Miro
- Photoshop
Education
BA (Hons) Textile Design, First Class
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
FETAC Level 6, Make-up and Costume Design for Film and Theatre
Inchicore College of Further Education
Certifications
Certificate in Working with Developers
UX Design Institute
Professional Certificate in UI Design
UX Design Institute
Professional Diploma in UX Design
UX Design Institute
Awards
Student Designer of the Year, Winner
Vodafone
Student Craft and Design Awards, Finalist
The Glucksman, Cork
Milliner of the Year, Finalist
Irish Fashion Innovation Awards