Robert Ritacca

Summary

I specialize in crafting design systems, features and components for digital products within agile environments.

Manager of Product Design, Devbridge

Oct 2017 – Present

Devbridge is a design and development agency that builds custom software applications for its clients.

Highlights

• Managing a team of Product Designers
  
• Facilitating workshops with client stakeholders to define product requirements and attain shared understanding between teams.
• Conducting thorough user research to ensure we are building the right solution up-front.
• Creating design systems, user flows and high fidelity prototypes throughout the development process.

Senior Product Designer, Unata

Dec 2016 – Oct 2017

Unata (*acquired by Instacart in 2018) builds e-commerce solutions specific to the grocery industry.

Highlights

• Maintained Unata’s design system and designed features for their consumer-facing e-commerce products across mobile (android + iOS) and desktop platforms.
• Designed features and components for the content-management system used by the retailers to run their e-commerce properties.
• Supported sales and marketing initiatives by designing unata.com and sales prototypes.

Senior Product Designer, AdParlor

Dec 2011 – Dec 2016

Adparlor builds ad tech products utilizing advertising API’s of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Google and more.

Highlights

• Created and maintained AdParlor’s design systems across it’s digital ad tech products.
• Designed features and components for digital ad products such as ‘Facebook Dynamic Product Ads’ and AdParlor’s Mockup Generator (admocks.adparlor.com)
• Supported sales and marketing by defining AdParlor’s brand guidelines and marketing collateral.
• Managed a team of designers who were focused on executing creative services for clients such as Starbucks Canada, Rogers, Audible, Wal-Mart Canada and many more.