Emilio García García
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Emilio is an ambitious designer with over 25 years of experience directly leading design teams of different sizes as well as the strategic design vision. He specializes in product and user experience design and has contributed those skills to deliver high-quality products for top leading digital companies, from media to tech startups. Emilio joined Toptal to engage in problem-solving on design projects for logical, positive organizations.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Principal Product Designer
New Relic
- Worked in the global experience design team and led the product design vision at New Relic.
- Collaborated with the CPO, general managers, and directors of engineering to define, prioritize, and execute the vision .
- Mentored designers across the different teams and different time zones.
Product Design Manager
Eventbrite
- Led an entire area of the consumer lifecycle and created a cohesive experience for our users.
- Managed, hired, and mentored the entire product design team in Spain.
- Collaborated with product teams and designers in other offices across different time zones.
- Spearheaded the migration of the design system from Sketch to Figma.
Head of Design
CARTO
- Managed the team’s workload, priorities, and projects following a Kanban methodology to ensure projects were delivered on time, within scope, while following all the necessary requirements with maximum quality.
- Coordinated inter-team projects including product, marketing, solutions, and sales.
- Developed and optimized design processes—creating the entire workflow and managing the relations between product, engineering, and design.
- Worked on the entire redesign of the brand (Carto.com/blog/from-cartodb-to-carto/) and the release of a new product (Carto.com/builider).
Principal Product Designer
CARTO
- Designed and developed all the new features needed to launch the latest version of the product, CARTO Builder—ensuring that the user experience and expected outputs were always at the heart of all the decisions taken.
- Led all the actions that involved working with other departments especially marketing and product.
- Worked as the sole designer and developed specific PoCs and solutions needed to meet clients’ requirements.
Senior UI Designer | Developer
Tuenti
- Oversaw the release of the first versions of the new MVNO store.
- Delivered a complete redesign from scratch of the social network.
- Created our own CSS framework which minimized the use of images and placed a focus on performance.
Design Lead
Vocento
- Led the redesign of all 12 of Vocento's products; Vocento has 12 local digital newspapers in Spain.
- Worked within the central newsroom, together with the editor-in-chief and the engineering team, and contributed to the launch of different vertical portals and news specials for all regional media.
- Collaborated with product managers and the engineering team in the redesign of Abc.es.
Design and Front-end Lead
20minutos
- Worked with the engineering team and the product team to redesign the entire community section and all the editorial blogs (around 20 blogs).
- Collaborated with the engineering and product team in the redesign of the entire product.
- Helped the engineering and product team in the release of micro-sites for special events.
Web Designer | Front-end Lead
Prisacom
- Worked (on the design and CSS code) in the release of the first website of a new television channel, Cuatro.com.
- Redesigned all the company's websites (Elpais.com, As.com, Cincodias.com, Cadenaser.com, among others); translated it from 800x600 to 1024px width and from HTML to XHTML and CSS.
- Created tons of special micro-sites (design and XHTML and CSS code) for special events like the Oscars, the FIFA World Cup, the Olympics, and much more.
Graphic Designer
Textolaser
- Created the multimedia department within the company including the design and code for the websites and interactive PDFs and CD-ROMs.
- Worked within the creative department—designing many artifacts like books, stands, packaging, and so on.
- Contributed to the prepress area of the company—focusing on scan high-resolution images for advertising campaigns.
Skills
Tools
Figma, Sketch, Photoshop CC, InVision, Sublime Text, Lightroom CC, After Effects CC, GitHub, GitHub Pages, Jekyll, Jira, Mercurial, Fireworks, Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop 7, QuarkXpress, InDesign CC, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe FreeHand
Languages
CSS, HTML
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Events
Platforms
WordPress, Webflow
Other
Responsive Design, Product Design, Website Redesign, Websites, UI Design, Design Systems, Accessibility, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Data Visualization, Research, UI Maps, Animation, Corporate Websites, Startup Funding, Design Patterns, Interaction Design (IxD), Prototyping, MVP Design, Lottie, Abstracts, Dashboards, Web Dashboards, UI Toolkits, Web Design, AI Design, Dashboard Design, Dark Design, B2B, Observation, B2C, E-health, Geospatial Data, Widgets, B2B2C, Tables, Responsive, Business Law, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Leadership, Design Leadership, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C)
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