Your Challenge

Product Innovation is Too Risky!

"We have millions of dollars at stake if our product fails to penetrate the market in a sustainable way."

The Solution

Hedge Your Risk with Design Thinking

De-risk each stage of the product development lifecycle with Design Thinking methods and techniques.

Joe Baz, Product Design & Innovation Consultant

I help technology companies in the Asia-Pacific region deliver exceptional business results fast and cost-effectively. For 22 years, I've helped B2B companies drive results that impact the bottom line. Here's why you should trust me (business results from past projects):

$2.8M

Approx. Annual Bottom Line Savings

By standardizing the information architecture and page-level design patterns for a web-based enterprise Electronic Health Record system.

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$1.2M

Approx. R&D spending saved

By using evidence-based research, I helped the product management team learn that additional investments in their program would not address their customer's needs.

74%

Retention Rate for Customers in China Market

By developing the retention strategy and communications plan to help a US-based global trade technology company grandfather a product that losing money, but highly used in the China market.

Problems I Help Solve

Product Visioning & Roadmaps

Understanding and shaping a difficult to understand strategic problem into a product vision and roadmap that can deliver value incrementally.

Problem Identification & Framing

Uncover and frame difficult or hidden problems in workflows that amount to massive operational waste collectively by facilitating cross-functional service mapping workshops and field research.

IA & Design System Transformations

Address a large amount of tech debt due to poor information architecture (IA) and design system decisions by developing sensible taxonomies, interaction wireflows, and alignment diagrams.

Creative Direction & Mentoring

Support product teams that lack creative and user experience direction by reinforcing information design & interaction design principles, and providing valuable design insights in critiques.

Collaboration & Alignment

Align non-collaborative product teams to design and implement product features in a consistent, intuitive, and in object-oriented way.

People Who Vouch for Me

...through Joe's masterful shepherding of the core team, we've developed a taxonomy of data-driven-displays, a proposal for a new information architecture, and broad agreement across the enterprise on both the value and applicability of the framework.

Leo Frishberg

UX Director & author
athenaHealth

Joe was a thoughtful mentor and advocate every step of the way. Whether urging me to shadow his work or crafting a personalized career path plan for me, Joe put tremendous thought into ensuring I deepened my design and leadership skills.

Libby Perold

Senior Designer
athenaHealth

Joe handled a diverse portfolio: conceiving of interfaces that accommodated both beginner and power users, sunsetting products without impacting the company's bottom line, managing complex high-profile client relationships...

Peter Swartz

Data Scientist
Panjiva | S&P Global

No matter what problem Joe is trying to solve, his primary focus always begins with people... From mentoring to public speaking, consulting to design, Joe stands out as leader in the Boston tech scene because of his deep empathy, curiosity and commitment.

Brian Del Guidice

Principal Designer
Above the Fold