As founder and CEO of an early stage startup, I hired Karen Donoghue as an independent consultant to assist us in validating the requirements for our MVP prototype that incorporated a financial recommendation engine with tools for quantitative financial analysis. Working remotely, Karen rapidly helped us craft user stories and work flows for our MVP release, and helped us translate our requirements into a design for an easily-consumable, customizable product experience. 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 also advised us in preparing for user research interviews, coaching us in best practices for uncovering user needs through focused user research. Karen is an expert practitioner with very strong skills in working with founders on product design. I highly recommend her services.