Niall QuinnSenior Product & Interaction Designer
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Hello! I’m Niall

Senior Product Designer working on next-gen listening experiences

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Designer who codes with 10+ years experience spanning in-house, agency, and self-directed projects. Currently shaping next-gen audio experiences at Bauer Media Audio, Europe’s leading commercial radio broadcaster.

Passionate about end-to-end design, collaboration, and user-centred solutions. Im currently interested in prototyping immersive audio experiences using AI and XR.

My award-winning projects have been featured in The Creators Project, Neural Magazine, and A Touch Of Code, and exhibited internationally at venues like the V&A Museum and The Japan Media Arts Festival.

Experience

  • Senior Product Designer
  • Bauer Media Group
  • Jan 2022 - Present

As a senior member of the Product Design team, I lead the UX and UI design for features across Rayo, Bauer’s next-generation audio platform, across app and web. I collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior designers, and design solutions that balance business goals and user needs.

  • Co-Founder
  • Signal to Noise
  • Sept 2010 - Present

Signal-to-Noise is a creative media collective led by Oliver Wilshen and Niall Quinn. They create award-winning audiovisual installations, exploratory interfaces and devices.

  • Product Designer & UI Developer
  • Solid State Group
  • August 2015 - Jan 2023

Playing a key role in the full lifecycle of a project from product research and estimates, UX and UI design through to frontend implementation. Usually in a React and React Native development environment.

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Education

2012 - 2013

  • MA Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice, Distinction
  • Goldsmiths, University of London

2006 - 2009

  • BA Music and Visual Art, First Class Honours
  • University of Brighton

Publications & Articles

  • CONTEMPORARY LYNX MAGAZINE
  • Posthumanism, technology, and a glimpse of the future. CONTEMPORARY LYNX MAGAZINE 2(6)2016. October 2016
  • NEURAL 51, REVIVE
  • REMAP, robotic tape access. ISSUE #51, SUMMER 2015
  • The Creators Project
  • Sansone, Nicole. Magnetic Audiotape Used To Bring Medieval Church To Life. Nov 6 2013.
  • LandEscape Online Arts Journal
  • Signal to Noise Interview, April 2013.
  • A Touch of Code: Interactive Installations and Experiences
  • R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, V. Hanschke. Gestalten. 2011.

Awards

2013

2012

Exhibitions

2020

  • The Texture of Air
  • The New Royal National ENT & Eastman Dental Hospitals, 47-49 Huntley Street, London. Feb 2020.

2017

  • REMAP
  • Sounding DIY, Chalton Gallery, Camden, London. April 2017.

2016

  • REMAP
  • Espace Mulitmedia Ganter, Bourogne, France. 30th April- 9th July 2016.
  • Analogue Tape Glove
  • Oddstream Expositie Nijmegen, Netherlands. 18th March- 27th March 2016.
  • REMAP
  • In Sonora Sound and Interactive art Festival. Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain. 10th-12th March 2016.
  • REMAP
  • In Sonora Sound and Interactive art Festival. Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain. 10th-12th March 2016.

2015

  • I’MTEN Birthday Card (Plotter Drawing)
  • IMT Gallery, London. 17 September – 2 October 2015
  • REMAP (Live Performance)
  • Digital Humanities Lab , University of Sussex, Brighton. 5th July 2015
  • REMAP
  • Anarchronism, iMal, Brussels, Belgium. 13th May- 14th June 2015

2014

2013

  • Sonophore
  • Whitley Arts Festival Reading, UK. 25th Oct 2013.
  • Sonic Plotter Prototype
  • V&A Digital Futures Showcase, London, UK. June 2013.

2012

  • Sonophore
  • Pixxelpoint Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia. 7-14 December 2012.
  • Sonophore
  • Soundasaurus Festival, Epcor Center, Calgary, Canada. 15-18 November 2012.

2011

  • Sonophore
  • De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. 25th November 2011.
  • Sonophore
  • VAD Digital Festival, Girona, Spain. 6th-15th October 2011.
  • Analogue Tape Glove
  • “What Now” Festival, Siobhan Davies Studios, London, UK. 16th-17th April 2011.
  • Analogue Tape Glove
  • Les Bouillants Festival, Vern-Sur-Seiche, France. 9th April- 9th May 2011.

2010

  • Analogue Tape Glove
  • UAMO Munich, Germany. 20th April- 24th October 2010.
  • Analogue Tape Glove
  • Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle Center, Seattle USA. 4th- 6th September 2010.
  • Analogue Tape Glove
  • Soundwaves Festival, Sallis Benney, Brighton, UK. 16th-18th July 2010.
  • Pre-empting Descent
  • Burt Brill and Cardens Degree Show University of Brighton, Brighton, UK. May/June 2009.

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