Design Research Techniques

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

MBA for Designers

Associate's degree

In my time at CorpFolder (digital platform to manage tax invoices in Mx), I was responsible for interaction, interface, and overall user experience of the product.  Collaborated with Engineering and Management to ship the first public version.  Defined how the user would oversee and manage their invoices (add, delete, tag, verify, print, export, etc.). Additionally, I also took care of the marketing website, the message, illustrations, to name a  few.

Founding Designer

I joined the company as a draftsman intern and moved forward to a full-time job as a Mechanical Design Engineer. At the Product Design department, my duties included: designing 3D parts (sheet metal) and assemblies for cabinets and enclosures, making technical drawings to be built in production lines (compliant with ANSI/ASME Y14 standards), documenting and keeping track of changes in the system. On the fun side: cardboard prototyping, drop testing, and rainproof testing.

Corning Inc is a world-wide enterprise with several sub-divisions, best-known for the Gorilla Glass used in the iPhone (and, including one that makes tableware); I worked in the cable division with optic fibers, copper, aluminum, plastics and prototypes made out of cardboard.

— For the last 2 years, I was the Global Artwork Coordinator, responsible for all the screen-printed artworks in the products and illustrations for instruction manuals (the assemblies broken apart are called “explode mode”) across the world, th

Mechanical Design Engineer

My main goal was to help engineering shipping the first public version of WeGiftIt (a group gifting platform) designing all the necessary workflows, prototypes, mockups, specifications, and a little bit of markup. On its first iteration, WeGiftIt included: gift search, wishlist, group management, group feed, payment recollection, and shipping. Additionally, on the agency side, I worked on projects for Apigee, Sendgrid, and the Government of Mexico City.

NearBPO is a multi-disciplinary software development agency in Mexico City, serving not only local customers (government, banks, local startups) but also big international enterprises (Google and Apigee). WeGiftIt was an idea for a group gifting product they have in mind, but they needed help.

— WeGiftIt: Helped the team finished the design of the app (user flows) for its MVP and supported engineering during the implementation of it.
— CDMX Government App: The multi-platform mobile application (feature set included: maps, news, and su

User Interface Designer

I worked for more than a year in Breezi (the website builder), in features like contextual-styling, versioning/saving, FTP exporting, modular theming, text editing, previewing, the marketing website, and more. My last project was the MVP version of PlaceIt. It included the workflow for creating a product mockup, based on a gallery of mobile devices, defining how the images were going to overlay, cropping, and perspective matching to a mockup.

Freshout was a software development agency that also developed proprietary products for themselves, PlaceIt (acquired by Envato, being the most popular) RecordIt (screen recording), and Breezi, the website builder. At the agency side, their customer base included Telefonica, Lyvefire, and Yahoo, among others.

— PlaceIt: Designed the MVP version (workflows, design, assets, image processing mechanics) and supported engineering through implementation. PlaceIt was very successful, to the point where the company changed its name to PlaceIt, and then 

Interaction Designer

Product Designer

Back in 2014, Kong was known as “Mashape,” the largest API Marketplace. To survive—and scale—we pivoted from serving and manage APIs to end-users (API Marketplace) to connect their Microservices and APIs across cloud and data-centers (Kong Enterprise). The company grew from 20 people in a bank basement to a team of 200+ people worldwide—Kong API Gateway the most adopted open-source API gateway at the time.

In those six years—and, as the first designer—I collaborated with many customers and internal teams to design and implement new products, features, and open-source projects. I established the fundamental design patterns and contributed to every product the company released.

— Insomnia Designer: I led the overall product, interaction, visual and experience design (including a little bit of marketing) for the first version (05/20); navigation, document listing, design mode, debug mode, etc.
— Kong Manager: Since its conception, I worked on Kong Manager v1 (single-workspace), to estab

Senior Product Designer

I worked for more than a year in Breezi (the website builder), in features like contextual-styling, versioning/saving, FTP exporting, modular theming, text editing, previewing, the marketing website, and more. My last project was the MVP version of PlaceIt. It included the workflow for creating a product mockup, based on a gallery of mobile devices, defining how the images were going to overlay, cropping, and perspective matching to a mockup.Freshout was a software development agency that also developed proprietary products for themselves, PlaceIt (acquired by Envato, being the most popular) RecordIt (screen recording), and Breezi, the website builder. At the agency side, their customer base included Telefonica, Lyvefire, and Yahoo, among others.— PlaceIt: Designed the MVP version (workflows, design, assets, image processing mechanics) and supported engineering through implementation. PlaceIt was very successful, to the point where the company changed its name to PlaceIt, and then it w

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