Kevin McDonagh

Kevin McDonagh — Director of Product Management at AppVelocity. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.

Kevin McDonagh

Director of Product Management

Kevin McDonagh, Director of Product Management at AppVelocity. AppVelocity provides on-demand feedback on Figma prototypes, reducing early design validation cycles to seconds. Twenty years of first-hand experience battling for early feedback has resulted in Kevin's passion for bridging the feedback gap. Kevin aims to empower designers with an AI-powered assistant that provides continuous feedback, helping them identify and address initial issues before significant human investment.

Past talks

1 talk · 1 event

2025

UXDX Community: The UX of Career Building: Failing Forward in TechJun 2025

Cringe Driven Development (CDD), a Template for Unavoidable Valuable Progress

Consistent feedback from actual users is critical for success, but building takes time, and startups have no time. How is it possible that the world’s most successful startups rocket to notoriety, attracting no end of actionable feedback before building tangible progress? Prominent organisations optimise to mitigate the risk to reputation. How might any team size 2-20 push themselves below their quality bar to quickly discover and deliver work which excites users enough to result in repeat feedback with next to no resources invested? Join me in this talk where I share how I, after 1.5yrs a team with no product or audience forced growth to one hundred users in three months.

Kevin McDonagh