Thomas McCluskey

Product Designer

thomasmccluskey561@gmail.comthomasmccluskey.com

Experience

2025 – Present

Product Designer at BNY Mellon

  • Designed and shipped analytics and transaction management features helping process $9.5B daily payment data
  • Owned features that reduced transaction lookup time from 9.3 seconds to 1.2 seconds
  • Led research and strategy increasing user satisfaction by 25%
2025 – Present

Product Design Intern at CNN

  • Enhanced accessibility for 7.5M users by solving 4 accessibility problems in the design system
  • Created accessibility design system documentation for 8 components
  • Audited components for usability, consistency, and accessibility through WCAG standards
2022 – 2025

Lead Design Lab Assistant at NYU MakerSpace

  • Taught students design and prototyping workshops such as User Experience Design, iOS App Design in Swift, and Design Strategy
2024 – Present

Product Designer, Accessibility at HeartShare

  • Led research and design for assistive technology helping individuals with cerebral palsy to draw, paint, and write
2022 – 2023

Lead Technology Instructor at iD Tech

  • Instructed students in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, After Effects, and AR

Education

2021 – 2025

New York University

Interactive Media Arts (HCI) with honors in Psychopathology

Skills

Design

UX DesignDesign StrategyUX ResearchAccessibilityUI DesignPrototyping

Tech Stack

FigmaClaude CodeSwiftFramerCursorHTML/CSSMagic Patterns

Projects

2024

Protothon

2nd in Enterprise Track

2023

Virtual Synesthesia

3rd, documentary on how COVID impacted peopleʼs sense of smell

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