Designing and Delivering the products and experiences of the future, today.
Who is John Guiney
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John Guiney is recognized for highly effective creative solutions, and experienced managing international teams through product creation and testing processes. When he is not creating experiences, or designing at a computer, he enjoys teaching art, building furniture, painting street art murals, and collecting vinyl records. In 2015, John relocated to Denver from Houston where he ran Secret Weapon Design, and painted with the Blue Dozen Collective. Since the move, he has been working as a Senior UX Researcher and Designer and Product Manager for DISH Network.
John Guiney is a Product Manager with UX Research, Design, and Marketing expertise in the agile, scrum, and waterfall CPG product development process. Designer focused on accessible inclusive interface and experience design. Fluent in all Adobe Creative Suite products, as well as Sketch, proto.io, and inVision. Experienced with CRM platforms (Salesforce) and social media and e-newsletter outlets (Mailchimp, ConstantContact, Facebook, Twitter, Google +). He is a strategic thinker with a strong grasp on agile best practices and a passion for researching and exploring new technologies in order to merge current trends and consumer insights into marketable opportunities. He is a leader with the ability to construct and manage teams that achieve focused results and creative solutions.
More about John
SAFe 4.5 PM/PO Certified
CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner)
Weekly volunteer as Odyssey School Denver Reading Buddy
Oprah Winfrey Show featured guest (2010)
Appalachian Trail ThruHiker (2011, GA>ME)
20+ years Graphic Design Experience
18+ years UX Research Experience
New Product and Service Designer
Qualitative and Quantitative Research Specialist
What does John do
Here's a small sampling projects and experiences created by John Guiney Design.
Product Design and User Experience Design
Desktop Screenshot from the Callaway Golf Driver Fitting tool
Callaway Golf
John revolutionized the golfing experience in 2008 by introducing the groundbreaking Callaway Golf Fitting Tool—an internet-based platform that provided golfers with the unprecedented opportunity to explore multiple golf club configurations from the comfort of their homes. The ability to fit remotely delighted customers and increased internal fitting efficiency, cutting the time-to-fit a customer by 96%. John specialized in equipment personalization and customizations, effectively boosting profits and broadening Callaway's custom product range.
DISH
While at DISH, John orchestrated inclusive experiences for over 13 million American households by spearheading the design, testing, and management of DISH's CVAA compliant suite of Accessible features for the Hopper's award-winning Carbon UI. He also enhanced testing capabilities across all DISH features and products, including DISH Anywhere, DISH's remote viewing app, leaving his department with a strong Design Thinking foundation.
DISH onscreen guide, Hopper, New Remote, and Amazon Alexa in the right foreground
Desktop and Phone Interface for Evolve Money and PreCash
Evolve Money and PreCash
During his time in Houston, John led groundbreaking initiatives at PreCash, breathing new life into the primary website, shaping the identity of Evolve Money, and developing user-friendly Android and iOS apps. Most notably, John established and maintained a dynamic component design system, ensuring flawless user experiences across both mobile and desktop platforms.
Product Management and Ownership
Fonduu
John spent 6 months designing and testing a rental and purchase marketplace platform for local peer-to-peer rental scheduling, messaging, and transacting. Following the successful testing, John directed delivery of peer to peer rental marketplace with in-app messaging & inventory management & logistics scheduling. Once the final platform was solidified, he worked with the lead engineer to gather requirements & write user stories to prioritize and plan product launch, bug fixes & enhancements. John managed the agile process through Asana Kanban.
Fonduu Rental Marketplace desktop and mobile experience
Pointchain / Confia
Confia is a FinancialTech platform that is responsible for the movement and compliant tracking of hundred of millions of dollars. At this early stage start-up, John owned, scoped, & delivered B2B high risk, high compliance financial services, and a banking product responsible for processing 5,000 monthly transactions for payroll, loan payments, & AP processing. As the Director of Product, he managed 3 teams of 10 developers collaborating across 3 international locations. In 18 months, John was able to increase engineering predictability and through-put, by leading a transition from waterfall to an agile scrum development process, providing best practices & ensuring frequent, quality product delivery. He was also responsible for handling vendors and reviewing and authorizing Marketing Communication, SEO, platform rebrand, & creation of user resources & help videos.
What others say about John
“I gauge my project team members on two criteria: do they effectively complete their work on time and are they a benefit to the overall team. John Guiney has proven both. John has played a critical role as a Product Manager and UI/UX designer for the initiative.
John has gone above and beyond his responsibilities to make our offering a better product for the consumers. He has been a pleasure to work with.”
“I would recommend John to anyone who wants an efficient, creative mind who can deliver what is asked of him, and is a great friend to have around!”