Joe Meersman Email & Phone Number

https://www.gyroscp.ai/

Austin, Tx, Us

Part-time instructor on Visual Communication at the School of Design and Creative Technologies. I teach both design and non-design students how to use drawings to share ideas.

User Experience, Research, and Design services.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Delivering User Experiences to Legal and Financial Services users across Intapp and DealCloud applications.

Austin, Texas, Us

Driving Business Development, extending Channel Partner network, and growing Facilitated Transformation services. Delivering value to organizations through virtual education, training, and enablement. Dedicated to making workshops and meetings more focused on outcomes.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Leading designers in the delivery of device and product-based connected home experiences. Focused on the comfort and security of users. Improving comfort via the quality of air, temperature, and the efficiency of water consumption. Ensuring safety via multiple security products.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Defining the practice of Design Strategy at IBM. Responsibilities include co-creating a scalable design methodology, language, and process with multiple product teams across the Hybrid Cloud business unit. Educating and enabling designers in the application of these practices. Driving integration of design strategy across peer organizations, such as Product Management, Development, Marketing, and Sales. Focused on going beyond recommendations to having a measurable impact on the business through design.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led globally distributed design teams on the integration of AI into fintech, surveillance, and regulatory compliance experiences. Worked closely with Promontory Advisory Services team. Delivered the following IBM products for industry specialists, business analysts, and fintech developers: Planning Analytics, Cognos Controller, Financial Crimes Alerts Insight with Watson, Surveillance Insights for Financial Services, Financial Crimes Due Diligence with Watson, Open Pages with Watson, Watson Regulatory Compliance, Watson Customer Insight for Banking, and Cloud for Financial Services.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I provided creative direction for a multidisciplinary team that delivered IBM Analytics experiences to the cloud using Design Thinking. I was involved in Business Development, Release Management, and Product Strategy. The team delivered: Rock Paper Scissors Demo Application, Data & Analytics Portal, Cloud Infrastructure Experience, Data Experience on IBM Bluemix as well as Analytic Notebooks, Graph Database, Big Insights on Cloud, Dataworks, Dataworks Lift, Streaming Analytics, and Predictive Analytics Services.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I led the Design Team, which included User Experience Designers, Visual Designers, Front End Developers, and User Researchers located in Austin, Boston, and New York. Responsible for collaboration with Development and Business to create compelling, insight-driven product and service experiences. Oversaw hiring, mentoring of individual designers, and workshop facilitation. Team shipped: Watson For Education Demo Application, Language Translation, Speech-To-Text,Text-To-Speech, Dialog, Tradeoff Analytics, Natural Language Classifier, Concept Insights, Retrieve and Rank, Tone Analyzer, Concept Expansion, and Emotion Analysis Services.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Part of the leadership team in the division of IBM called IBM Design. I advised product teams across the enterprise software portfolio on how to leverage our organization's Design Thinking framework. In collaboration with my peers I worked to establish a culture of Design within IBM based in our studio in Austin, and an appreciation for design across all IBM locations. Facilitated working relationships between Research, Design and the Business to achieve the best User Experiences possible across a subset of the Software portfolio. Contributed to the IBM Design Language and drove it’s Animation Guidelines. Delivered a 300 person workshop on IBM Design Thinking.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for establishing, growing, and integrating the new IBM Design business unit. Mentoring young designers on all aspects of product development: Visual Design, User Experience, Ethnography, Human Factors, Usability Research, Implementation, and Strategy.

Boston, Ma, Us

Responsible for the leadership of multidisciplinary teams. This includes: User Experience, Visual Design, Digital Strategy, Research, Front End Development, Content Strategy and Copywriting. Designing solutions for international brands through creative problem solving. Regularly involved in Business Development efforts.

New York, Ny, Us

Fulfilled a leadership role in creating online experiences for a Fortune 50 Client. Worked with creative teams to translate target audiences' needs, behaviors, and goals into functional concepts. Designed next generation desktop, mobile, and tablet-based interactions. Involved in the implementation of Responsive Design.

Designed web and mobile User Interfaces in a role that included both Research and Design. This involved: Competitive Benchmarking, Concept Development, Ethnography, Heuristic Evaluation, Persona Generation, Task Analysis, Technical Documentation, and Wireframe Generation. Site designs incorporated Commerce and integrated Social Media as well as User Generated Content. Domains included both B2B and B2C spaces across the following industries: Environmental, Fashion, Higher Education, Insurance, Industrial Product, and Retail. Projects involved Content Analysis, Digital Strategy, Feature Planning, Requirements Gathering, and Roadmap Development.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Designer of next-generation public safety products for Motorola's Government & Public Safety business. Position called for concept development and user-centered design to support customer needs for incorporation of video capture. Responsibilities included the discovery of User Requirements, creation of Style Guides and Interface Specifications, and Usability Testing of prototypes. Managed a team of offsite and offshore resources for completion of PremierOne Mobile platform extension projects.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Maintained usability and fit across entire Mono, Stereo, and Automotive category portfolios. Ensured largest percentage of population able to comfortably wear headset products. Investigated new wearing styles and application of Bone Conduction technology. Worked closely with User Interface and Industrial Designers on creating a wide range of accessories. Guided the integration of various User Interface features including List Navigation and Voice Prompt Interaction. Advocated User-Centered Design by Scoping functionality, defining use cases, and refining controls for: S9-HD, S305, H15, H780, H270, H390, H620, and H560 Headsets

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developed and implemented tactical User Interface testing protocol. Evaluated various approaches to mobile media consumption. Involved in building the advanced camera application shipped on the ZN5 phone. Assessed navigation controls on the ROKR E8. Worked closely with designers to iteratively create solutions for usability issues. Tested concepts ranging from specific applications to global interactions. Methods ranged from One-on-One Interviews, Ethnography, Collecting Performance and Subjective Data, as well as the resulting Analysis.

Deerfield, Il, Us

Coordinated qualitative and quantitative market research efforts for various products. Moderated focus groups and conducted one-on-one interviews. Managed on-line survey process and conducted data analysis.

Zeeland, Mi, Us

Performed research to guide and refine product concepts in various stages of development. Managed video ethnography and movement-based data coding for functional models. Gathered ergonomic data and user feedback on prototypes. Provided competitive industry analysis.

Zeeland, Mi, Us

Performed ergonomics and comfort study work with prototypes. Executed behavioral data analysis, and kinematic studies.

Observed product interactions through a combination of video and photographs. Conducted user interviews, created personas, and identified opportunities for innovation via task analyses.

Generated initial ideations and concept sketches. Completed final concept renderings for multiple consumer products.