With 15+ years of experience as a designer, I enjoy simplifying complex challenges and setting design teams up for success. I focus on product design and systems, with a strong background in visual and UI design.
I’ve led design implementation across multiple platforms and devices, bridging Design and Engineering while leveraging research and user feedback to drive user-centered and business-empowering solutions.
Kaia Health offers digital programs to help people with chronic musculoskeletal pain –including back, hip, and knee pain– and COPD:
Worked on Area 120's (Google’s incubator) Orion Wi-Fi, a connectivity offload service:
Due to my strength as an end-to-end hybrid designer, i got rotated to work with Google:
Worked on migrating FOX Play's Latam streaming platform to Disney's DTCI platform after Disney's acquisition of FOX.
Still on Openbank, I led a team of developers, designers, and analysts to build a React and React native based Design system, Openbank Guidelines:
I joined Globant to become part of a large-scale digital products design and development multidisciplinary team:
Throughout 8 years as a freelancer designer, I had to wear several different hats:
I was offered a Teaching Assistant position on the core subject of the VCD career:
☝️Personal: Critical and analytical thinking, Ownership, Curiosity, Fast learning, Problem solving.
✋Inter-personal: Communication, Empathy, Collaboration, Feedback, Conflict resolution, Stakeholder management.
🧭Product Design: Needs analysis, Competitive analysis, Strategy, Canvas, Prioritization, MVP definition, Roadmap.
🛠UX Design: User interviews, Personas, Empathy map, Journey map, Heuristics, Information architecture, User flows, Wireframes, Interaction design, UX writing, Lo-fi prototyping
🪄UI Design: Benchmark, Moodboard, Stylesheet, Component libraries, Hi-fi mockups and prototypes, Motion design, Conversational, Handoffs.
📚Other: Mobile platforms, Accessibility, Responsiveness, Lean, Agile, Design thinking, Product Management, User testing, Design systems, DesignOps, Editorial design, Branding.
🎯Ideation: Figjam, Miro, Mural, Whiteboard.
✏️Design: Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, Pen & paper.
📐Prototype and Handoff: Design tools, inVision, Zeplin, HTML/CSS, and a bit of JS.
⚙️Productivity: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Atlassian Suite, Slack, Zoom, Loom, Git.
🇪🇸Spanish: Native
🇬🇧English: Fluent
🇩🇪German: Beginner
🗺I always jump at the opportunity to explore, be it the taco shop that just opened around the corner or taking a hike on top of a glacier.
🌱I try to give back to the Design community by mentoring other designers; helping junior designers get into the industry, mid-weight designers think about their career path, or other senior designers working on design systems and design operations.
📸I am a very visual person and I have a soft spot for photography and videography.
🕹I am a sucker for stories and I think a good story can be found not only in books and movies, but also in shows, videogames, music, you name it!
🎹I enjoy learning to play musical instruments, although I can only say I play piano, guitar, and drums.
🧑🏻💻I'm passionate about technology, I stay up to date with tech news and I try to find ways to bring it into my life.
🌍I care about sustainable living and being respectful and responsible with our environment. Even if we get the Mars thing started, we'll still have only one Earth.