logo of phillipolarte.com that shows the fire growing inside a mixed reality cube

Product Designer
Creative Technologist

Passionately designing and building mixed reality experiences with powerful storytelling in New York City.

(and business intelligence apps & webpages for the greater good) 

ChalkNotes

Mixed reality app for the creator economy

Emily Was Here

Mixed reality on a national landmark.

#julietshow

Mixed reality “on Broadway”

Other Works

Not focused on mixed reality, but part of my journey with product design leadership and management.

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Grad School Works

Open Grad Portfolio

Exploring the future of media and entertainment in a post-AI, mixed reality world.

Currently I am pursuing a computer science masters at NYU as a first cohort student of the new Emerging Technologies program. The program allows me to study artficial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, creative approaches to code, data science, UX ideation & design, robotics, and other expanding technologies that support the new wave of emergent tech.

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ESG Materiality App

Prioritize and aggregate environmental, social and governance data.

For global sustainability advisement firm, designed and launched web application to capture the materiality of topics impacting the environment, social, and enterprise value for top companies around the globe; and assessed how the impact changes over the next 10 years to make them ready for the future.

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Internal Ops UX

Did a full internal usability study at the Ford Foundation to build technology tools that span  decades worth of grant making artifacts & best practices.

To understand the “about-ness” of a trove of grants both past and present, designed new business intelligence tools, analyzed docs  with natural language processing, and relaunched internal document repositories to create a single source of truth for a billion dollar grant making leader.

07

Audio Tour App

Bring to life a brand through a pitch deck website and built initial experimental app. 

Made early UX research driven designs for an audio-tour navigation app to bring to life the users’ real world surroundings.  Also, created the brand style guide and web-based pitch deck  for this new startup company. 

08

Supply Chain App

Created an app to track daily output, operations, and environmental and social impact for funded startup in the private-equity space focused in improving supply chains. 

Conducted user research in emerging markets (Indonesia, Liberia) within the Global South. Built a powerful, yet easy to use, app from the ground up by ALL supply chain workers, and comprehensive enough for Fortune 500 brands in apparel goods. Eliminated agency-problem from supply chains and provided real-time audit data using Arduino microcontrollers on G3 networks. 

09

Podcast Brand

Launched podcast, created design guides, and website. 

Created the brand identity for a newly launched podcast that featured startup founders from around the United States. Created logo, brand guides, distribution backend and developed the website to play and share the PitchElevator podcast. 

10

Broadway Brand

Designed unique marketing assets for sold-out  cabaret series starring Broadway-caliber talent.

Designed logos, posters, digital content assets, and video content to bring in sold-out crowd for HarmonyOn, a series of off-Broadway performances including HarmonyOnBroadway, HarmonyPop, and HarmonyHoliday.