Nicola Difusco Email & Phone Number

Nicola Difusco is a Adjunct Faculty, Design and Marketing at Bryant University. Colleagues describe them as "I had the pleasure of working with Nicola for over six months on a new design for our platform. I was constantly impressed not only by his skills but also by his motivation and great attitude. Nicola always came to the table with great ideas and improvements to move the design forward. Any team would be lucky to have Nicola and I can’t wait to see what the future takes him." and "Nicola is one of the most exceptional product designers I have ever worked with. He's intelligent, insightful, hard-working, creative, and simply a delight to work with. We spent 1 year+ building Artistprof together and his contributions to the team were critical in helping us ship a beautiful product so quickly. We asked him not only to lead design on the project but also fill in all the gaps - from conducting UXR, writing marketing copy, and managing cross-functional relationships with engineering and sales. After launching, we received great feedback from our beta users around the design and ease of use of the product - a testament to Nicola's attention to detail and the hard work he invested. Here are a few examples of skills Nicola excels at with examples - Understanding users needs and creating design systems to balance multiple needs: Nicola created multiple personas with conflicting needs, conducting research to validate the personas, and developed reusable principles and components - Managing and optimizing processes: Nicola pioneered and optimized our product requirements -> research -> design -> engineering process using Figma, Google Sheets, and Kanban with led to 2x increase in our implementation velocity - Communicating with and driving consensus among stakeholders: Nicola was adept at documenting design decisions and getting signoff between Eng and Product quickly"