
Alvaro Nistal
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Chippenham, United Kingdom
Toptal member since July 20, 2017
Alvaro has over a decade of experience in UX and UI design, working on end-to-end mobile and desktop experiences for companies such as EY, Barclays Bank, British Gas, E.ON Energy, and Wondr Medical. He has worked with global teams, including C-level stakeholders, product managers, in-house design teams—taking a leadership role in some of them—AI and ML data scientists and development teams.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Design Lead
Wondr Medical
- Designed various features for the social media feed of the platform, such as the profile screen, sharing and viewing images and videos, sharing and viewing documents, and many others.
- Ran over 70 interviews with users to understand their needs, discover pain points and opportunities to make their life easier when doing their work.
- Co-led a discovery workshop from the 70+ interviews we ran that helped shift the company from having no exact direction to having a user-focused mentality.
- Designed an iOS app from scratch to solve our user needs based on the interviews and discovery workshop.
- Managed stakeholder relationships daily, working closely with the CEO and senior management.
- Took part in strategy meetings, crafted a roadmap, and made decisions for the company's future.
Product Design Lead at EY Global Innovation
EY
- Led the design of EY Predict, a global tax AI and ML web platform.
- Launched the product at an event with 100+ global EY tax professionals.
- Worked and collaborated with teams in India, Poland, California, Buenos Aires, and many more.
- Worked daily on user research, wireframing, prototyping, UI design, and developers.
- Led stakeholder workshops with tax leaders, manager and professionals globally.
- Worked with the Agile (Scrum) methodology with the entire team.
Lead Product Designer
YunoJuno
- Designed new journeys to increase conversion for various flows.
- Ran design sprints to create new journeys and generate more revenue from our current users.
- Built and maintained a design system for the platform.
- Led the team by managing another freelance designer and worked daily with developers and product managers to ensure the quality of work.
- Worked alongside the CTO to improve the design and development process, including Agile and Scrum.
- Led the future design of the platform for enterprise and freelancers.
Senior Product Designer
Nice Agency for E.ON Energy
- Worked with offsite product owners and developers located in various European locations.
- Ran workshops and usability testing sessions in-house, at the client’s offices in Munich, and remotely.
- Designed the UX and UI screens for E.ON’s mobile-first responsive customer portal.
- Worked on user journeys which included onboarding, account management, payments, and moving homes.
Senior Product Designer
Signal Noise
- Worked with the client's CEO and CTO to design a vision for a new FX trading platform.
- Ran user story mapping, product workshop, and usability testing sessions in-house and remotely.
- Worked on the user experience and user interface of the platform.
- Built a working prototype to support the final pitch to the client.
Lead Product Designer
Hive, a British Gas Innovation
- Ran design sprints, workshops, and usability testing sessions.
- Led the product design—managing a team of ten product designers.
- Worked on lighting, heating controls, and multi-user features across Apple Watch, iOS, and web.
- Worked with iOS and web developers in-house and remotely.
Visual Designer
Barclays Bank
- Designed and built tools to improve digital banking and colleague collaboration at Barclays.
- Led the design of a variety of projects, including managing the UX and visual designers.
- Built multi-platform, multilingual experiences used by hundreds of thousands of users.
- Worked with design, development, and project management teams located in UK, India, New York, and Singapore.
- Worked on the investment banking and retail platforms as well as a colleague-facing portal.
UX/UI Designer
RowActiv (by British Rowing) at UVD
- Worked with stakeholders to build a completely new gym product.
- Organized user story mapping sessions and product workshops.
- Led the design and collaborated on the front-end development.
- Tested with real users in London gyms and British rowing team athletes.
- Contributed to the rollout in 2014 in various gyms in West London, UK.
UI/UX Designer | Front-end Developer
LocalGiving
- Led the redesign of LocalGiving, a charity fundraising startup.
- Conducted various user testing sessions and researched the main pain points in the current donation process.
- Worked with every department in the company—development, marketing, finance, and engagement—to ensure that the redesign was aligned with our customers' needs and delivered the best experience possible.
Education
Bachelor of Design Degree in Graphic Design
Escuela de Diseño CEADE Leonardo - Sevilla, Spain
Skills
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Principle, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Zeplin, Adobe After Effects, Jira, Trello, Apple Keynote, Lookback, Miro
Platforms
Web, Figma, MacOS, Apple Watch, iOS
Languages
HTML, CSS
Industry Expertise
Banking & Finance
Other
User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), User Research, Wireframing, Product Design, App Design, iOS App Design, Web Design, Apple Watch Design, Dashboard Design, Quantitative User Research, Usability Testing, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Sass, Azure DevOps, Internet of Things (IoT), Energy, Apps, Smart Homes, Sports & Athletics, Exercise & Gyms, TV App Design, Landing Pages, Responsive, Communication, Dashboards, Web Portals, Intranets, Communities, HR Tools, Startups, Agile Sprints, UX Research, Agile, Stakeholder Management, Leadership, Remote Usability Testing, User Interviews, UX Design, UI Design, Discovery Workshops, AI Design, Machine Learning, Web Platforms
Experience
- User Interface (UI) - 11 years
- User Experience (UX) - 11 years
- Product Design - 11 years
- iOS App Design - 7 years
- Wireframing - 6 years
- Sketch - 6 years
- Principle - 3 years
- Dashboard Design - 3 years
Tools
- Principle
- Sketch
How to Work with Toptal
Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.
Share your needs
Choose your talent
Start your risk-free talent trial
Top talent is in high demand.
Start hiring