This is Carlos
I am a digital product designer with a passion for creating experiences that keep people engaged. My strengths include user experience design, design systems, visual design, prototyping, and interactive animation.
My design process makes use of the double diamond approach to solve problems.
Resume 2021
Amazon AWS
Senior UX Designer
Feb. 2020 - present
East Palo Alto, CA
UX Designer on multiple AWS services in analytics and databases including Amazon OpenSearch Services (Formerly Elasticsearch Services) and Redshift.
Ancestry.com
San Francisco, Ca.
Feb. 2017 - Present
Senior UX Designer / Prototyper
Lead the UX prototyping effort with flexibility to support various teams in solving problems to increase customer engagement, conversion, and delight across the Ancestry Family History and DNA web and mobile products.
Collaborate with UX team members and product managers to develop interactive and clickable prototypes that help improve the design and usability of new and existing product features.
Help organize design sprints and rapid prototyping brainstorm sessions.
Established and lead the motion department at Ancestry, advocating for the use of justifiable motion in our products.
Research and prototype animations using frameworks such as Lottie for proof of concept and aiding the process of development and shipping.
Work on the systems team to define new UI components and product design standards.
Organize and maintain the pattern library for the UX team.
Create internal prototypes to help socialize and test usability and accessibility of new UI standards.
StyleSeat
San Francisco, Ca.
Feb. 2016 - Jan. 2017
Product Designer
Lead product designer on the Supply Core experience team for the StyleSeat mobile and desktop application.
Re-designed the signup flow which led to a higher increase in conversion.
Collaborated on user research and testing session responsibilities including in-person and phone interviews, visiting client locations, and online surveys.
Iterative approach to design process in order to ship out and improve upon new features through data analysis, A/B testing cells, and customer service feedback.
Worked closely with various levels of stakeholders to help leverage our customer needs with our business goals in order to deliver best possible solutions to help drive pro growth conversions up.
Design
Interaction design
Visual design
User Interface Design
Wireframes & Task flows
Rapid prototyping
Responsive Web Design
Motion design & Animation
Video production/Compression
Apple Human Interface Guidelines
Android Material Design Principles
Code
SwiftUI
Lottie Animation Framework
React
HTML/Pug
CSS/SCSS/Stylus
Software
Figma
Framer X
Xcode
Quartz Composer/Origami
Principle
Sketch
Invision
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe After Effects
Balsamiq
Cinema 4D
Github
Visual Studio Code