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Visionary Designer

Christian Baptiste

Director of Design and User Experience.
I am super passionate about leading companies through creative methods to build amazing User eXperiences.
 

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DESIGN IS

  • about using creative thinking to solve complex problems

  • finding opportunities

  • extracting and focusing on the why rather than the how

  • all aspects of a users experience

  • building relationships, both internal and external

  • working collaboratively with product, dev, executives, sales and most importantly customers

  • about alignment and clarity

  • about empathy and understanding

  • validating the right assumptions and learning from the wrong ones

  • extracting the unknown and the yet-to-be-discovered [innovation]

  • the foundation for creativity and ideating

  • a medium to tell the story and to create the vision

  • a utility to find ways for technology to assist the user

  • creating delight and focusing on beneficial ways to make our lives easier

  • a passion and a dedicated desire to want to make things better.

 

 

Christian Baptiste

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03 Experience

2015 - 2017

APTTUS!

2012-2014

IBM

Senior UX Lead Designer
Principle design lead for IBM's Coremetrics, Tea Leaf, Deal Management. DemandTec applications

Senior Lead of UX Design

Principal design lead for Apttus platform and commerce applications. CPQ, eCommerce, Admin, ABO, Sales Incentives. 

2009 - 2012

DEMANDTEC

Director of Design
Principal design lead for Allowance Billing, Shopper Insights, Price Optimization, Promotion, Markdown, Customer Trade, Assortment Planning, and many other applications.  Created the design system.

2007 - 2009

SEARCHFORCE

UI/UX Design

Set design and technology direction with PM, Dev and Executives for the SearchForce paid search ad management platform. 

2005-2007

ROXIO/SONIC SOLTUIONS

UI/UX Design/Front End Developer

Design lead for Roxio.com and Sonic.com, Roxio labs and all OEM sites. 

2003 - 2005

SIEBEL/ORACLE

2002 - 2003

WEB-EZE
CONTACT

Available for speaking engagements, mentoring and geeking out. 

 

Christian@visionarydesigner.com

Tel: 1-415-722-3302

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2001 - 2005

ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS

My own startup

OIVS

1996 - 2001

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Web and Application Designer

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APPLICATIONS DESIGNED

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