Australia

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Service Design

Content Design

Customer Experience (CX)

UX writing

Interaction Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Joe Ortenzi

Principal Experience Design Consultant

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Accessibility

Content strategy

Information architecture

User research

Optimal Workshop

SurveyMonkey

Zeplin

Adobe XD

Axure

Balsamiq

ChatGPT

Crazy Egg

Figma

Framer

GitHub

Glassdoor

Hotjar

Mailchimp

Miro

Notion

Confluence

Google Analytics

Lookback

PowerBI

Mural

- Lead the design process from strategy to delivery, collaborating with development and product teams to deliver active systems that align with business and consumer goals.
- Shape product strategy, ensuring successful business outcomes with minimal consumer friction.
- Facilitate discovery and definition workshops with a wide range of stakeholders to expose the best path forward.
- Carry high-level concepts through to design
- Develop visual assets including task flows, user journeys, service blueprints, wireframes, prototypes, user interface designs and design systems.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and needs alongside budgets, timelines and feasibility
- Coordinate with the development and delivery teams in Agile processes to surface workable solutions and innovative outcomes

Lead and deliver user experience strategies for the Agency and supervise and mentor the User Experience team. 

Deliver user-experience design solutions and generate ideas which ensures a high quality of experience, consistency and usability across touchpoints including the planning, management and delivery for new or enhancements to existing products and services. 

Lead and deliver user experience strategies for the Agency’s products and services aligned to user-research, user-behaviors and the Agency objectives.

Lead the Desirability stream for a team in the Firemark Labs incubator and innovation section within IAG. Involves research, ideate and innovate at rapid pace for tight two week sprints with the expectation of answering if an idea is Desirable, Viable and Feasible. 
I lead small/medium teams of UX and UI designers ensuring design artefacts are delivered to development ready quality. I facilitate workshops and research activities to define needs, discover risks, define user/customer groups, and initiate early concepts.
I propose and validate early hypotheses, discover and mitigate product risks through usability and validation testing. I manage positive relationships with stakeholders, absorbing brand culture and product sensibilities alongside the fostering of innovation and evidence-based decision making.

Joined a cross-disciplinary team to deliver improvements and updates to the product. Added methodology to research and design processes. In-depth user understanding, from interviews and data analytics. Conducted interviews, defined user stories, functional specifications and analytical updates. Co-ordinated across design, analytics, development and marketing outputs.

I lead small/medium teams of UX and UI designers ensuring design artefacts are delivered to development ready quality. I facilitate workshops and research activities to define needs, discover risks, define user/customer groups, and initiate early concepts.
I propose and validate early hypotheses, discover and mitigate product risks through usability and validation testing. I manage positive relationships with stakeholders, absorbing brand culture and product sensibilities alongside the fostering of innovation and evidence-based decision making.

As the sole ExD for SheepCRC I lead strategic design decisions in collaboration with the Product Manager and various Stakeholders and challenge an expert development team to bring the best experience to customers in a ground breaking collection of web applications. 
Based on a collection of qual and quant experience research inputs, I lead the UI and UX frameworks for several products in the suite and strive to bring simplicity and humanity to all the products and displays. With  decades of experience in interface design he works with the team for the best experience possible.

Lead the UX across the first iteration of an updated insurance product, consuming and adding to a new GEL. I conduct in-depth desk and user/customer research to inform design decisions. I deliver strategic UX principles, user flow, design patterns to a core product. I plan and facilitate design sprints and design briefings for agile development iterations. I review wireframes from other designers, plan and conduct usability testing.

Objective designs content­-centric enterprise applications that are complex, yet need to be intuitive and easy to follow, in order to simplify our customers’ jobs. 
I drive research to deepen the knowledge of our user's mental models, needs and goals, in order to design interactions that deliver outstanding experiences across all of our products. I manage the design guidelines and patterns for the entire Objective product suite that will ensure a compelling and consistent experience where the future UX is continuously optimised based on data driven insights. 
As a key part of all future product development, I involve the user in research, planning, validation, and refinements.

Conduct research including user and stakeholder workshops, interviews and behavioural observations
Evaluate client websites and services including expert reviews, competitor analyses and reviews of web analytics
Design information architectures and user interfaces through wireframes, workflows, low fidelity prototypes and functional specifications across desktop, tablet and smartphone interfaces
Conduct and evaluate usability testing
Add to the development of usability tools and processes to promote best user-experience practice across the company
Coach other members of the UX team and collaborate with Creative Designers and Technical Consultants, as well as assist the business development team through scoping and creating solutions for proposals.

As Local Leader I have led the local group to our current count of 2600+ members through the strategic and functional organisation of events, presentation, lectures, workshops, panel discussions, mentoring, and other activities to further the development of an active and engaged Interaction design community in Sydney. 

Since taking this role the group has increased in size many-fold, but has also increased in the quality of speakers, the number of mentors, influence in the general experience design community and the enthusiasm of our membership. 

Our chapter is the largest and most active community in Australia, and will be even more active as we pass through a decade of service to Sydney from 13 Dec 2021 with several concurrent programs of knowledge sharing, support, networking, community building and improving the human condition through better design.

Experienced in both Qualitative & Quantitative Testing and Research, with a long history of user-advocacy across digital platforms and customer services. User Experience, Interaction Design, Service Design & Strategy with a bias towards Inclusive Design and optimising the user journey for better engagement in line with business goals.

Roles included: 
- Technical Director - Inspire Foundation
- Information Architect - Amnesia
- Senior Producer - The White Agency
- Experience Designer
Various Startups and Established Organisations
- Accessibility Author - AccessIQ
- Lecturer - University of Technology, Sydney
- User Experience Designer - FOX SPORTS Australia
- Experience Architect - The White Agency
- Customer Experience Designer - IAG
- Senior User Experience Designer - Fox Sports

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