Maru Lango, Designer in Mexico City, Mexico
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Maru Lango

Verified Expert  in Design

Designer

Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Toptal Member Since
April 23, 2017

Maru has worked with myriad projects and clients, from being one of the first five employees to a now fully-funded startup, from research projects at international universities all the way to big government agencies and unicorn tech companies, as well as having over seven years of remote-first experience leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams distributed around the world.

Web DesignResponsive Web Design (RWD)Icon DesignUser Interface (UI)User Experience (UX)Illustrator CCAdobe IllustratorSketch 3IllustrationTypographyAdobe After EffectsUI DesignResponsive UIBig DataData Visualization

Portfolio

Work Experience

Senior Product Designer

2020 - 2022
Bitso
  • Led design teams to create onboarding guidelines for company-wide products and services.
  • Worked on end-to-end feature design and development with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and compliance.
  • Planned, led, and implemented research methods for data-driven iteration for better qualitative and quantitative continuous deployment.
Technologies: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, ProtoPie, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Illustrator CC, Sketch 3, Typography, Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), User Onboarding, Crypto, Cryptocurrency Wallets, UI Design

Senior UX/UI Designer

2018 - 2018
Kickass Partners, LLC
  • Led the visual design for the client portfolio, including revenue-generating companies.
  • Managed engineering team to build in-house products and acted as a lead product designer.
  • Worked closely with clients to develop custom solutions for re-launching international products using clinical research methods.
Technologies: Sketch, Sublime Text, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Illustrator CC, Sketch 3, Typography, Crypto, Branding, UI Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Product Designer

2015 - 2017
Datank.ai
  • Established branding, naming, and component guidelines.
  • Created and enforced the development workflow for front-end applications.
  • Built the company's website from wireframes to functional application.
  • Worked along with the machine intelligence team to establish product goals.
  • Developed product wireframes to assess market and engineering needs.
  • Assisted with interviewing candidates for the front-end engineering team.
Technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, InVision, Sketch, User Interface (UI), Icon Design, User Experience (UX), Illustrator CC, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch 3, HTML, Typography, Branding, UI Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Full-stack Designer

2016 - 2016
ROpenSci @ UCBerkeley
  • Generated branding and communication guidelines.
  • Built an app interface and component guides.
  • Generated custom branding software.
  • Redesigned the website experience from UX to front-end.
  • Created an easy to extend graphic language system.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, InVision, Sketch, User Interface (UI), Icon Design, User Experience (UX), Illustrator CC, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch 3, HTML, Typography, Branding, UI Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Full-stack Designer

2015 - 2016
OpenCollective
  • Developed and designed website and email templates.
  • Generated branding and communication guidelines.
  • Built an app interface and component guides.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch, CSS3, HTML5, Adobe Photoshop, User Interface (UI), Icon Design, User Experience (UX), Illustrator CC, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch 3, HTML, Typography, Branding, UI Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Full-stack Designer

2014 - 2015
OPI Analytics
  • Designed the main UI components and charts and visual screens.
  • Created and enforced development workflow for front-end applications.
  • Worked alongside data science and data engineering teams to develop product mockups.
  • Created CSS and HTML frameworks and libraries for front-end applications.
  • Customized charting software to fit company and product needs.
  • Developed product wireframes to assess market and engineering needs.
  • Conducted user research for product development.
  • Created interactive wireframes to test onboarding and user flow.
  • Polished existing branding elements.
Technologies: AngularJS, Node.js, JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Sketch, Moqups, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Icon Design, User Experience (UX), Illustrator CC, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch 3, HTML, Typography, Branding, UI Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Resident Designer

2014 - 2014
500 Startups Mexico City
  • Assisted batch companies in product design.
  • Generated component guidelines for products and branding.
  • Extended branding guidelines and their brand graphics standards manual.
  • Generated miscellaneous assets for the incubator.
  • Assisted various batch companies in their front-end development.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Sublime Text, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, InVision, Icon Design, User Experience (UX), Illustrator CC, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch 3, HTML, Typography, Branding, UI Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Junior UI/UX Designer and Front-end Developer

2011 - 2013
Restate Media Labs
  • Built components for client websites.
  • Designed and developed a CMS template.
  • Handled branding and illustrations.
Technologies: CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, WordPress, Sublime Text, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Icon Design, User Experience (UX), Illustrator CC, Sketch 3, HTML, Typography, Branding, UI Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD)
2017 - 2017

Certificate in User Experience Design

General Assembly - San Francisco, CA

2008 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design

Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseño de Monterrey - Monterrey, MX

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