My Story
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. Miles Davis
D esign driven, hands-on Strategic Hybrid Senior UX UI Visual Designer, Creative Director, Artist. Working within, bending, and molding the confines of whatever you throw at me into a beautiful visual and gratifying User Experience. Experience across 360° media: Mobile, Digital, Social, Experiential, TV, Stage, and Print. Orchestrate and stage typography, color, imagery, form, motion, music, light, environment and the technology, to perform an experience that communicates.
The full range of UX process-research, strategy, defining the audience, testing, mockups, prototypes, design, and implementation. Career filled with a broad spectrum of User Experience Design. Concept, ideate, and produce UX UI designs for consumer products to highly complex Enterprise Mission-Critical, or Safety-Critical Systems for medical, aviation, manufacturing, home automation, financial, and eCommerce.
Passion for combining art, science, research, and current technologies to create elegant, visually-stimulating, thought-provoking inter-actives, and data visualizations while bridging and facilitating collaboration between creative teams, engineers, clients, and end-user / consumer. Expert knowledge of user experience best practices and ability to implement solutions based on unique needs of specific users. Always an ambassador for the end user!
Manage, mentor, and provide hands-on direction to UX, UI, visual designers, animators, copywriters, and engineering teams worldwide for Fortune 100 companies, small business, and start-up ventures. Extensive project and product management experience from conception to market. Direct client interaction experience with the ability to build relationships, understand client vision / direction, and present concepts and designs. All with a dash of humor. Pixel-perfect craftsmanship. Fine-tuned developed sense of aesthetics. Deep intellectual curiosity about social, cultural, and technological developments. Ability and expertise to foresee and evolve with creative technologies.
Always an ambassador for the end user!
Gary DelPonte
If you’ve actually read this far, the image of the Manhattan Bridge in the background of the page above was taken by me on one spring day. Using my iPhone camera, sitting in the back of a cab with window open going 45 miles per hour on the FDR Drive traveling from downtown to uptown. As Larry David would say “Pretty, Pretty Good.” And as my last name DelPonte means “Of The Bridge” in Italian, I have an affinity for bridges. The bridge graphic in my logo represents my objective to bridge the obstacles of communication and provide passage to experience by way of my concepts and designs.
Acronyms and Unicorns
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. David Ogilvy
But my favorite so far has to be UX Unicorn. A mythical User Experience Designer with an advanced and adaptive skill range. Outstanding skills in graphic design, rapid prototyping, front end development, user testing, technical specifications, marketing, and branding. It does not have an opinion, it has a process, and it will harmonize with any environment.
* Unicorn image from The Unicorn is Found (from the Unicorn Tapestries) Date: 1495–1505
