As the founder of an early-stage financial technology startup at MIT, I have looked to Karen for advisory support in developing our mobile platform. When it comes to improving our technology’s user experience, Karen’s skillset has proven invaluable. Karen provided thoughtful and deliberate turn-by-turn evaluations of our workflows and objectives while diagnosing and recommending solutions to friction points and inefficiencies.
I highly recommend Karen Donoghue for early-stage technology projects and founders seeking deep product design expertise.
While serving as a Computer Scientist at the US Department of Defense (CERDEC), I supervised Karen’s work on delivering novel concepts around enabling the management of networked rugged devices in fast-changing network topologies. Karen has a strong ability to look at large problems and design buildable solutions that work well for end-users. Her tenacious research into our signal soldier user population also uncovered a new persona, the reservist, and she designed unique training and onboarding experiences for this new user segment.
Karen works very collaboratively, rapidly delivering PM and UX assets to assist a product team in clarifying and validating requirements for a new product offering, helping to establish features and get to a prototype.
As a co-founder and CEO of a telehealth startup, Karen joined me at the outset to help design the MVP product and launch my company, where she later served as a trusted advisor.
In days, Karen learned our unique business needs and developed a series of flows and conceptual wireframes for our product, which helped us validate our early hypotheses and develop better presentations to early customers and investors.
Karen speedily and accurately converts ideas and narrative – written and spoken – into visual architectures that enable efficient product development and engineering. She is incisive, collaborative, kind and the sort of consummate professional who makes everyone around her better.
During our remote engagement, Karen Donoghue worked closely with me to understand the needs of our target users. Karen’s efforts helped validate our product design towards market delivery. I enjoyed working with Karen and would recommend her as an expert design practitioner for software companies with complex offerings.
Karen Donoghue and Craig Newell really helped us get a jumpstart before deploying to our first customer.
At Beyond Identity we are focused on improving security while improving the end customer user experience. In order to do this, we engaged with HumanLogic early in our development process to ensure a highly usable, coherent user experience.