Designer
Senior Design Lead
Hi, I'm Raul, a Senior UX/UI Designer with over 10 years of experience in the industry, I have developed a deep expertise in areas such as interaction design, prototyping, design systems, and user-centric experience design. I am passionate about creating intuitive and engaging digital experiences that allow users to accomplish their objectives with ease.
I possess an innovative mindset, combined with a meticulous attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills, enables me to deliver exceptional designs that improves delivery efficiency and exceed user expectations at the same time.
Throughout my career, I have successfully collaborated with cross-functional teams of all sort of sizes in companies that go from small startups to big corporations.
As a senior designer, I am adept at leading design initiatives, mentoring junior team members, and advocating for user-centered design principles. I am confident that my skills and experience make me a strong fit for your team, and I look forward to the opportunity to contribute to your project's success.
I possess an innovative mindset, combined with a meticulous attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills, enables me to deliver exceptional designs that improves delivery efficiency and exceed user expectations at the same time.
Throughout my career, I have successfully collaborated with cross-functional teams of all sort of sizes in companies that go from small startups to big corporations.
As a senior designer, I am adept at leading design initiatives, mentoring junior team members, and advocating for user-centered design principles. I am confident that my skills and experience make me a strong fit for your team, and I look forward to the opportunity to contribute to your project's success.
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $130,000
Hourly rate: $85
Nationality: 🇪🇸 Spain
Residency: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Experience
Design Team Lead
Socrates 2023 - 2024
Working as Lead Product Designer for a web3 social media app, helping shaping the design team and culture by leading in different areas of design: development of a design system and brand identity, mentoring of more junior designers, implementing innovative solutions such as AI into our product, providing with solid guidelines for design delivery and promoting a design-centered cultured in the company.
Lead User Interface Designer
Norman & Sons (Citibank) 2022 - 2023
In charge of creating all final UI deliverables for development, creating and maintaining the project’s local pattern library and helping the main design system team to evaluate and incorporate new components into the main branch. Worked for Citibank in several internal projects from proof of concepts to production tools delivered to the end. Did some internal user interface and component auditing as well as Q&A.
Lead User Interface Designer
Norman & Sons (ICIS) 2022 - 2022
Helping ICIS with their platform by being in charge of their UI delivery process and Design System.
Senior Product Designer
BlackSwan 2020 - 2022
Helped BlackSwan in their redesign of their new platform focused on helping airlines to monitor, forecast and optimise expenditure from passengers during flights, maximising benefits and minimising waste as well as serve as an ordering platform for passengers to order food, drink or duty-free items. Worked in their design system for a responsive web platform using Figma.
Senior UI Designer
Jelly 2020 - 2021
Helped Jelly to quickly start their design process and managed their initial design system, during this time I worked closely with their CEO to speed up the delivery process without compromising quality. I also helped them to visualise new user flows through high fidelity prototypes and even guided them to find a permanent designer by filtering applicant CVs and doing design interviews to find the perfect candidate.
Senior Product Designer
Inconvo 2019 - 2020
Helped the Inconvo team to design their responsive chat app, did a bit of a branding update as well, user testing, prototyping, design systems...
Senior Product Designer
Octopus Wealth 2019 - 2019
Helped the team at Octopus Wealth designing different products they offer, a retirement plan calculator tool and their customers internal platform, working with Sketch on responsive designs
Senior UX Designer
AMV-BBDO 2019 - 2019
Helping AMVBBDO to design an internal tool for communication between different departments within the company. Working on UX design, Wireframing, Prototyping and UI Design.
Senior Visual Designer
Norman & Sons (CloudMargin) 2018 - 2018
Working in fintech projects designing a modular library of components for responsive web design and creation of prototypes using Principle and Invision.
Senior Product Designer
Trustology (Consensys) 2018 - 2018
I'm working in a very exciting project/startup for a new product (Trustology.io) within the crypto-environment, getting my hands full on design, from branding to iOS app, stepping in all phases of the product, UX, Wireframes, Prototyping, User testing, UI Design and more, super exciting!
Senior UX & UI Designer
Potato London 2017 - 2017
Working with the guys at Potato in some very cool projects and exciting clients.
Senior Product Designer
Farfetch 2017 - 2017
Working in Back Office products for Farfetch, designing and prototyping mainly using Axure, Invision and Principle.
Senior Visual Designer
Norman & Sons (CloudMargin) 2017 - 2018
Working in fintech projects designing a modular library of components for responsive web design and creation of prototypes using Principle and Invision.
Senior UX & UI XAML Designer
Nomura International 2015 - 2016
I've been working on different applications for Risk Assessment and several internal tools. Both doing UX and implementing interfaces using Blend in XAML for WPF projects.
Senior UX & UI Designer
Square Enix 2014 - 2015
Working on responsive web design, delivering the UX for some major games projects here at Square Enix.
Senior UX & UI Designer
Canonical 2014 - 2014
In charge of creating and building wireframes for a set of base applications that will be launched on the occasion of the release of the Ubuntu Phone. Tools also included are: Calculator, Weather, Calendar, etc.
Senior UI Designer and XAML Prototyper
Monitise Create 2014 - 2014
In charge of the Visual Design for a hotel application in a kiosk platform based on WPF. Worked on Visual Design, animations and transitions, XAML styling for development.
Senior UX & Interaction Designer and XAML Prototyper
Native Design 2013 - 2014
Ideation and creation of interaction models, UX frameworks by managing the integration of all the experience within the Windows 8 current framework. Development of prototypes for user testing in WPF. Wireframing and concept creation. Development support as a XAML Lead Designer on the final release product.
Senior UX & UI Designer
Sporting Index 2012 - 2013
In charge of the company's branding design development in different areas such as User experience, UI design, Graphic design, Corporate identity and Silverlight / Expression Blend design in a variety of trading software products. My main responsibility here was to take care of and solve design issues across the platform to improve the design and user experience.
Senior UX Designer
Amaris 2011 - 2012
At Amaris I worked as a UX consultant and as a visual designer for several amazing projects in Telefonica R+D. The role was mainly focused on the TV platform, designing user interfaces for connected TV, Telefonica products such as TV apps (like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Weather & more) for TV boxes, Xbox, Windows Phone and Windows 8. I worked on fast interactive prototyping for different projects/platforms built in Silverlight for user testing, development specifications and interaction prototyping. The softwares I used include Photoshop, Omnigraffle, Expression Blend, Illustrator, among others.
Creative Designer
Acuam Interactive 2011 - 2011
My duties at Acuam encompassed the creation of all online/offline design related campaigns which include: marketing online, branding and corporate design, advertising, social media.
Owner & Freelance designer
Shonen.me 2010 - 2012
UX/UI Freelance Design. As a freelancer I have worked on several projects with different clients and platforms.
Graphic Designer
Almeida Viajes 2007 - 2007
Web and graphic design mostly, with a strong focus on branding, corporate identity, advertising, offline campaigns, and print design.
Graphic Designer
Pixeland Studio 2007 - 2007
Implementation of web ux designs, along with fresh and creative corporate branding and print designs.
UX & UI Designer
Plain Concepts 2007 - 2010
Several great projects for leading companies. My responsibility here was to create outstanding high-class user experience within Microsoft technologies such as Silverlight and WPF. Focusing on Microsoft Expression Blend to implement my own designs by creating interactive concepts, XAML, layout, animations, behaviours, sketchflow, custom templates, custom controls, etc. are, among others, production tasks I have considerable experience in. Throughout those years, I also delivered speeches at conferences providing insight into Silverlight and Touch design guidelines. Moreover, I provided training for companies with regard to Silverlight and Expression Blend.
Skills
brand
brand-designer
head-of-design
lead-designer
product-designer
product-lead
ui-ux-designer
ux-researcher
visual-designer
web-designer
design
english
spanish