Joel on Design
UI/UX Designer
Let’s save the galaxy from attacks of bad Product Design. Don’t spend your short life burning cash, building products and features nobody wants. Let’s design products together creating value for people. Let’s save the galaxy together!
BROWSE A CASE STUDY
Design system
Hilton Grand Vacations One Console Design System works to successfully align politically diverse stakeholders, ironing out inconsistencies, and paving the way for faster developer handoffs and a scalable foundation for all future digital products.
Smart Select MD
Digital Platform to put patients in control of their health, seamlessly connecting with insurance provided by their employer. Smart Select MD is a physician’s rating tool, gathering information that users tell us they want to see.
Lisa –
AI Assistant
Lisa provides Alight’s more than 30 million customers with real-time answers to their HR and benefits questions.
Nationwide MyTech
MyTech provides Nationwide’s more than 30,000+ current associates as well as new joining team members the tools they need to succeed.
Jauntin’
BCx Health & Wellness Services, these design concepts won a us contract with Grubhub, and other partners, providing gig workers access to healthcare services such as talking to a doctor and getting necessary prescriptions.
Mission objectives:
DESIGN with RESEARCH AND DATA
Making product decisions from a standpoint of “the user interviews showed this” and the “quantitative data shows this” rather than only this design looks good.
COMMUNICATE FLUIDLY
Before working in design, I came from a background in front-end development. This means we can work together, faster, using a common vocabulary in cross-functional teams, to build products people love.
THE USER COMES FIRST
Bottom line. Product represents value delivered, nothing else.
MEET/EXCEED BUSINESS NEEDS
Good designers know the business needs and the user’s needs. Good products strike a balance that benefits everyone.
RECOMMENDATION
Sr Product Manager, Hilton Grand Vacations
Kayce Severin
“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Joel, a designer who brings genuine passion and curiosity to each project we’ve collaborated on. He is enthusiastic about understanding users and is always eager to dive deep into user insights, resulting in thoughtful design decisions for our new internal applications.
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Across both projects, Joel has shown a strong ability to translate user needs into effective design. While still learning the nuances of our business, he’s been highly receptive to feedback and consistently committed to growth and understanding. He’s also been able to pick up the pace when needed, adapting quickly to shifting priorities. His dedication to quality work and commitment to the user experience make him a valuable asset to our design team“
RECOMMENDATION
Account Director,
Alight
Elliott Smith
“It was a pleasure working with Joel, his UX/UI skills were a significant benefit to our team working on a complex project that had a lot of layers. If we could have worked with him longer, we would have. He will be a benefit to any team he works on moving forward. Expect him to have a long and successful career if he maintains his top performance and focus.”
RECOMMENDATION
Founder, DoinGud
Manuel Alzuru
“It’s always exciting to see the different solutions that Joel comes up with. At FightPandemics (now DoinGud), he worked alongside our product and design teams and delivered elegant UI/UX design in several features of our product. His passion for making a clean product design and willingness to evaluate other perspectives makes him an invaluable asset to any organization.”
RECOMMENDATION
CEO, Jauntin’
Rain Takahashi
“Joel is a very efficient and detail-oriented designer. I highly recommend him for both full time and freelance projects. He sticks to schedules well and is always willing to go the extra mile.”
Native Mac App
Overlyvisual Wallpapers
NATIVE MAC APP for Wallpapers
This is an app I created from scratch, with the help of AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and GPT, and got it fully functioning, and published it to the App Store for Mac. Towards the end, I hired a developer for assistance on packaging the app in a .pkg file for App Store acceptance.
ADDITIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Google UX Design Program
Google: Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
Certificate ID: SDSS3RQTSWNF
Google: Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate
Certificate ID: LVV49SH9S7L9
Google: Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes
Certificate ID: QGPPJYY5N3LB
Google: Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma
Certificate ID: SMEXGLSU4CKZ
Google: Build Dynamic User Interfaces (UI) for Websites
Certificate ID: 98887UINMMXJ
Character Overview
Name
Joel Buzzanco,
Designer
Missions Successfully Completed
Designs I have shipped to outer space have spanned from Fintech, HR software, Healthcare, Insurance, Insurtech, and Marketing apps.
Education
General Assembly, Web Development
Location
Earth, United States, currently in Erie, Pennsylvania with remote team missions a success!
Join & Let’s rule the Galaxy together
I hope you had half as much fun browsing through this site as I had making it. I feel that so many portfolios look the same, with a bland “Squarespace”-ey feel, and I wanted to explore something more creative visually.
If you have a Design job coming up I could be a good fit for, please send me a message.