Ryan Connolly
Staff Interaction Designer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Connolly is a Staff Interaction Designer at Google with nine years of experience crafting thoughtful UX/UI for cloud and enterprise products. He progressed through leadership and principal design roles at Liferay and led Workspace Studio design at Google Cloud before stepping into his current staff-level position. Trained in Industrial/Product Design (UIUC) and Illustration (Academy of Art), he combines systems thinking with strong visual craft—evident in a professional Dribbble portfolio of polished interaction work. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings full-cycle web and product design experience from client-facing projects to large-scale platform design. Ryan is actively bridging design and development, signaling a growing interest in front-end engineering alongside his interaction practice. Outside work he blends creative illustration sensibilities with pragmatic UX leadership, a blend that helps drive both elegant visuals and usable systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Illustration, Master’s Degree, Illustration at Academy of Art UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (5)
gatsbyjs10
liferay10
react-components10
user-experience10
gatsby10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ryconn888/liferay.design
Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
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Contributions:4 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
artists
ryconn888/liferay-portal
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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