Principal UX Designer at Jacobs | Flood Intelligence
I love to create, ideate, and develop design concepts that delight users.
I'm a multi-disciplinary designer based in Glasgow, Scotland, with 15+ years across luxury fashion, travel, engineering, and product. For the past several years I've focused on water management software – turning flood risk and hydrology into tools that modellers, engineers, and planners actually want to use.
About
I'm currently a Principal UX Designer in the Flood Intelligence team at Jacobs, working closely with our modelling community to make sure design choices stay authentic to the people who rely on the software every day.
What I'm focused on right now:
- Flood Platform – launched and now iterating with early users
- Multiple new features for Flood Modeller v8.0
- Concept development for Australian Hydrology
- UX improvements across the wider Flood Intelligence products
- Contributing to a company-wide brand design system, work in progress
Selected work
Latest articles
About
I'm a multi-disciplinary designer based in Glasgow, Scotland. From a young age I knew I wanted to do something creative for a living – I was once set on being a fine art portrait painter, though that never quite worked out 😄 I'm grateful to do what I love for a career. It's challenging and competitive, but ultimately very rewarding.
I've had an eclectic career path, spending time across luxury fashion & jewellery, travel, engineering, and product. Each of those industries shaped my overall approach as a designer – and as a person.
I studied HND Visual Communication at Cardonald College in Glasgow, graduating with a Merit Advanced Diploma in 2010. Since then I've put a lot of time into self-initiated learning – coding, typography, 3D, and animation among them – though my true passions remain visual and experience design.
Outside of work: family time, off-the-beaten-track holidays, experimenting with new tools, and the occasional, increasingly rare, game of football.
Tools
Figma
Design & prototyping
Blender
3D concept assets
After Effects
Motion & showreels
Mural
Research & journey mapping
AI
Working with & developing interfaces
Adobe Suite
Brand & visual design
Shipping activity
— contributions in the last year
@robertdonegan ↗Experiments
Smaller side projects and explorations, outside of day-to-day client work 🧪
Codecademy
Improving knowledge of JS and React components.
React.gg
Continued learning of modern React.
Hands-on JavaScript
Working through LinkedIn Learning's JavaScript fundamentals course, repo-tracked as I go.