Marianne Maguire Flanagan

Designed next generation digital news and entertainment experiences for a large media company. Led, mentored and inspired team of user experience designers, visual designers and front end developers. Engaged brands and product engineers to define and implement strategic, user-centered solutions. Brand partnerships included: CNBC, Universal Studios Theme Parks, Universal Pictures, Oxygen, Syfy, Bravo, and USA Network.

Collaborated with multidisciplinary design team on reimagining user experience for eCommerce and marketing websites at one of the nation’s largest, international B2B news companies serving the major brands in media and publishing including: BBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, New York Times, Hearst, Washington Post, ESPN, Conde Nast, Esquire Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, New York Magazine, Scholastic, Pearson, MTV and more.

Designed award-winning, news video eCommerce website: As part of a large-scale initiative to digitize over a million archival news stories and provide streaming HD online video, developed the visual design and user experience for an eCommerce portal. Doubled web traffic to over 2,000 daily visits. Transformed licensing and downloading from a manual process to a streamlined web experience, minimizing required steps and reducing time lag.

Led an in-house creative department for a financial consulting firm, managing both marketing and product design encompassing branding, visual, and user experience for websites and software applications.

Created successful software suite: Designed user interface and user experience for four new, green field applications. Licenses per application sold and renewed at major national banks. Ranked in FinTech100, a listing of the top 100 software companies in the financial services sector.

Gained new client contacts with promotional magazine: Conceived and designed multimedia magazine. Campaign targeting C-suite executives at large and small banks led to new clients, and tripled our website traffic.

Built strong team from the ground up: Created annual design plan and budget; gained approval to expand staff resources; recruited, trained and mentored junior staff; and managed daily workflow of 5 person team.

Created identity system for weekly seminars and co-branded presentations for market research firm, a division of CAA. Designs won pitches and lead to increased sales.

Designed and executed entire creative content from concept to completion including artwork, and building websites in HTML/CSS for a boutique New York design firm. Conceived and built user-focused, accessible websites.

Co-instructed book design course focusing on the visual expression of social rituals. Led critiques and provided feedback to assist students in honing their concepts and layouts to achieve a cohesive and engaging message.

Designed logos and ad campaigns for Pharmaceutical Advertising subsidiary of Ogilvy. Clients included Wyeth, Merck, Pfizer, Siemens, Flexerill, Concerta, and Ultracet.