PRODUCT DESIGNER & ACCESSIBILITY SPECIALIST
I design products that
include everyone.
Six-plus years at BBVA and NTT DATA designing transactional, complex interfaces, and building the strategies, audits and training that make digital accessibility sustainable within organisations.
Product designer
from Zaragoza, Spain
2021 – Current
I'm currently Product Designer and accessibility specialist at the IT consultancy NTT DATA. Some of my current responsibilities are:
- As Product designer within national and international organisations conducting interaction design tasks such as Information Architecture and accessible interaction but also participating in every phase of the product development and strategy.
- Defining strategies and plans to increase UX and digital accessibility maturity within different international teams.
- Leading several internal initiatives to boost the adoption of digital accessibility.
- Conducting trainings in accessible interaction and digital accessibility adapting content to the different audiences.
2020
I was one of the 2020's Future Designers program↗ in the Spanish bank BBVA. I worked within the global Design team while receiving training on different topics (user research, storytelling, behavioral economics, etc.).
- Worked in a multidisciplinary team as Product designer defining information architecture, user flows and wireframes. Later, together with a design researcher I helped validating the design proposals.
- For three months I joined the Design Education and BBVA Experience team (Design System team).
- Digital Accessibility webinar at IEBS Digital School
- Ethical Design at Thiga Academy's Digital Product Designer course | 2023–2024
- & several talks you can see below
- Research, interaction and visual design training path | Interaction Design Foundation | 2023–2025
- Google UX Design Certificate | View credential | 2023
- Digital Product Designer | The Hero Camp | 2021
- Microinteractions Crash Course | Instituto Tramontana | 2020
- Circular Design Sprint | Uxer School | 2019
- Bachelor in Industrial Design Engineering at Universidad de Zaragoza | 2015–2019
Areas of expertise
Product Design for complex interfaces
End-to-end product design experience at transactional, data-intensive, and policy-constrained products: information architectures, interaction design, design systems, and handoff
Research-informed design
At different scales and contexts, I conducted usability testing, co-creation workshops, exploratory interviews, inclusive research with people with disabilities, and research methodology design.
Digital Accessibility & Inclusion
Compliance and institutional change: WCAG and EN301549 auditing, strategy, governance, training design, maturity assessment, and organisational capability-building.
Selected talks
AXE-CON BARCELONA · 2026
European Accessibility Act Industry Cases
RADAR INSPIRA · 2026
Design for social impact. Lessons learned from a non-profit association
LA PRODUCT CONF MADRID · 2024
Who is your user? More inclusive products through accessibility
GOOGLE DEV FEST · 2024
Accessibility, is it familiar to you?
GLOBAL ACCESSIBILITY AWARENESS DAY · 2024
Opening talk
GLOBAL ACCESSIBILITY AWARENESS DAY · 2023
Digital Accessibility workshop for UX designers
DRUPAL CAMP SPAIN · 2022
Real accessibility issues and how to solve them in Drupal
Open to speaking and teaching
I talk about accessible product design, digital accessibility strategy and design for social impact.
Reach me out at martaortigosadecarlos@gmail.com
OFF DUTY · STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
" We need to open our senses to everything around us just to absorb new information, to challenge ourselves to be able to reach a new way of observing, seeing and understanding the world."
Alan Moore, Do/Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything
