Thomas McCluskey

Product Designer

thomasmccluskey561@gmail.comthomasmccluskey.com

Experience

2025 – Now

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 – Now

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 – Now

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

Projects

2024

Protothon

2nd in Enterprise Track

2023

Virtual Synesthesia

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

Skills

Design

UX DesignDesign StrategyUX ResearchAccessibilityUI DesignPrototyping

Tech Stack

FigmaClaude CodeSwiftFramerCursorHTML/CSSMagic Patterns
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