Neil Dawson
Associate Principal User Experience Designer Tools
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNeil Dawson is an Associate Principal UX Designer focused on tools, bringing eight years of hands-on experience designing developer- and discipline-facing software at studios and product teams. Currently shaping internal toolchains at Rockstar Games, he has a track record of improving discovery and workflows across complex products—from consumer fintech at TotallyMoney to documentation and trading consoles for decentralized finance. He pairs pragmatic product thinking with user advocacy ("I fight for the users") and a habit of embedding with squads to turn research and IA work into lasting product changes. Notably, he has repeatedly been invited back to solve thorny navigation and information architecture problems, signalling a reputation for measurable impact in both agency and in-house contexts.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Interactive Media Design, Bachelor’s Degree Interactive Media Design at University of Dundee
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Github Skills (17)
netlify9
vega8
gatsby7
blockchain7
nx-monorepo7
shared5
purescript4
monorepo4
desktop-application1
wallet1
desktop1
tooling1
crypto-wallet1
user-interface1
trading1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
neildawson/neildawson.github.io
Apr 2018 - Mar 2025
Neil's personal website and portfolio
Contributions:66 pushes, 2 branches, 3 comments in 7 years
neildawson/documentation
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Documenting the Vega protocol
Contributions:1 PR, 61 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
vega-protocolblockchainvega
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