ABOUT ME

Graphic designer by training. Product Designer by curiosity. Overthinker by nature.

Questions have always been my starting point. I rarely settle for the first answer; I need to understand what’s behind it, look at things from different angles and question what seems obvious. Being self-taught shaped the way I work: I learn as I go, experiment freely and adapt quickly to new contexts.

I started in visual design, but those same questions pushed me beyond aesthetics. It stopped being only about how something looked or what it communicated, and became about who it was for, the decisions behind it and whether it was actually solving a problem.

Product design became the place where I could answer those questions — and actually do something with the answers.

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MY JOURNEY

A pretty natural evolution.

My career grew alongside my curiosity: I started in visual design, specialized in UX/UI, and gradually found myself getting closer to product decisions.

2017–2020

Digital Graphic Design

Web design, communication, content and visual execution. This is where I built the foundation that still shapes many of my decisions today.

2020–2025

UX/UI Specialization

My work started shifting from “how it looks” to “how it works”: flows, architecture, systems and experience decisions.

2025–present

Product Design + Product Analysis

My role expanded into requirements, functional analysis, documentation, validation and supporting the product through implementation.

Today

A broader product practice

Design, analysis, strategy and AI all come together in the way I work. I move between them depending on what each product needs.

WHAT GUIDES THE WAY I WORK

A few things I try to bring into every project.

01

Curiosity

Asking questions, exploring possibilities and never assuming the first answer is necessarily the best one.

02

Clarity

Bringing structure to complexity so people, decisions and products can move forward.

03

Judgment

Knowing when to go deeper, when to simplify and when it’s time to make a decision.

04

Collaboration

The best solutions rarely happen in isolation. I like building them alongside different perspectives.

HOW I WORK

I don’t follow a formula. I adapt the process to each project.

I combine Design Thinking and Jobs-to-be-Done to understand needs and context, Lean UX to explore and validate quickly, and Scrum to move forward iteratively.

I don’t use them as a fixed recipe. I take what adds value at each stage and adapt the process to the product, the team and the context.

Design Thinking Jobs-to-be-Done Lean UX Scrum

Understand

Understand the context, the real needs and what people are trying to accomplish before deciding what to build.

Prioritize

Decide what’s worth solving first and focus the effort where it can have the most impact on the product.

Explore & decide

Explore alternatives, turn ideas into flows or prototypes and validate enough to make a well-informed decision.

Build & adapt

Build iteratively, stay close through implementation and adjust based on what we learn along the way.

CONTINUOUS LEARNING

Learning is part of the work, too.

I like complementing what I learn through practice with training that helps me broaden my perspective on product, UX, agility and AI.

Scrum Product Owner Certified ExpertView certification ↗
2026
Scrum Foundations Certified ExpertView certification ↗
2026
2023
2023
B.A. in Graphic Design and Animation Universidad Tecmilenio
2019
OUTSIDE OF WORK

I also have some mostly useless facts.

Because not everything fits into a resume — and honestly, some of these things are far more important.

Fandom level

Disney. No cure in sight.

I can defend a Disney reference with far more seriousness than necessary.

Head of decision-making

Pipo gets the final say.

I make the proposals, but clearly he’s the one behind many of the important decisions.

Pipo
Unpopular opinion

Potatoes just aren’t my thing.

Yes, pretty much all of them. It’s a controversial stance, but at least I’ve been consistent.

Offline

Drawing, music, movies and travel.

I always need something new to look at, listen to or learn from.

Creative archive

I collect references with absolutely no restraint.

I almost never look at them again, but somehow having 847 saved references still counts as a system in my head.

KEEP EXPLORING

More about my work.