JoePaganucci

I am a Staff / Lead Product Designer with experience leading 0–1 product design, AI-enabled product experiments, design systems, enterprise workflows, and consumer-facing experiences. I have a strong track record of partnering with product, engineering, and research to define strategy, launch new capabilities, improve operational efficiency, and drive measurable gains in usability, adoption, and conversion. I thrive on combining systems thinking, human-centered design, and strong product judgment to solve complex cross-functional problems at scale.

Clients

Google, Netflix, Nike, McKinsey & Company, Delta, Coca-Cola, Young Living, Cadillac, Fully, Downstream Impact

Portfolio available upon request

Selected work

Nike: Innovation App Redesign, screen 1

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Nike

Innovation App Redesign

Nike Innovation app evolution to fit the Nike brand ecosystem

  • Integrated an app-based design system based on Nike Podium Consumer system.
  • Increased the app’s UMUX score by 30% by simplifying the athlete onboarding flow.
Nike: Share Your Activity, screen 1

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Nike

Share Your Activity

MVP experience of a large-scale activity data collection running study by onboarding the first 100 participants

  • Onboarded the first 100 participants, then scaled to 500 athletes.
  • Improved study clarity and participation by introducing a study activity list based on UXR feedback.
Ro: Patient labs results, screen 1

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Ro

Patient labs results

Lead designer on the diagnostics squad focused on creating a human lab results experience

  • Led design for v1 in-browser lab results, including iterative concept exploration and usability testing.
  • Ran UXR studies and concept tests on patient lab result vision
Personal: Baseball roster, screen 1

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Personal

Baseball roster

A baseball little league game roster app to set and manage the team’s games

  • Built with Codex
  • Dugout mode to track batting order and fielding positions
  • Field position logic and messaging to set inclusive field positions throughout season

Experience

Google; Material Customer Engagement 2024–Present

Collaborating with Google app teams to help create a cohesive Google experience with Material at the core.

Nike; NSRL 2023–2024

Redesigned the Innovation app while scaling a large running field study through UXR and rapid-prototyping.

Ro; Diagnostics 2022–2023

Led the v1 patient and practitioner lab results launch.

BlueinGreen Digital; Netflix 2017–2020

Embedded product designer on the Netflix Enterprise Software Engineering team.

McKinsey & Company; The Five Fifty 2017–2022

Developed new products to increase reader engagement and client acquisition.

Downstream Impact; 2018–2019

SaaS product to scale amazon advertising sales.

Wieden + Kennedy; Coca-Cola + The Lodge 2012–2017

Multiple Super Bowl digital campaigns and playing with technology and robots.

MMB; Subway 2010–2012

Led the redesign of Subway.com

Genuine Interactive; 2009–2010

Learning digital design through asking questions to engineers.

Modernista!; 2005–2009

Built ads for HUMMER and Cadillac, my first taste of digital design, learned the art of details and chaos.

About me

Over my 15 year career I have worked across consumer and enterprise products launching numerous enterprise, e-commerce, and publishing products for clients including Netflix, Nike, Fully, and McKinsey & Company. I am passionate about telling engaging data stories through contextual visualizations and solving complex enterprise problems to improve productivity.

Outside of work I can be found playing sports with my son, coaching little league baseball, and making art with my daughter in Portland, OR. I've been told that I make a "mean" lemon meringue pie and enjoy baking bread for the house bread monsters. I am a reader of American history and enjoy a good action movie in 70mm when available and take part in the PNW sandwich explorer club with my wife.

Principles

Shared language

to define key terminology early to align as a team

Continuously adapt

to reframe problems as new insights appear

Be curious

and ask questions to learn and understand different perspectives

Explore and iterate

to then test and learn regularly

Systems approach

to think holistically to craft scalable results

Strong opinions, loosely held

to have a point of view, but welcome dissent

Evidence-based decisions

leveraging insights to drive results

Always forward

to drive results even if it means taking a step back to learn more