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UX Designer
Location
The Hague, Netherlands
Toptal Member Since
February 15, 2016
Rafael is a product designer with 8+ years of experience in every aspect of the digital design process. He has collaborated with startups and established product teams on research, strategy, workflow optimization, and execution of product decisions. Rafael is passionate about achieving a common goal: completing the project.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior UX/UI Deisgner
2020 - 2021
Intive
- Led the accessibility efforts for the Macmillan Education labs platform, achieving a user experience that allowed users with visual disabilities to execute tasks successfully.
- Collaborated with TFA (Tech for All's Accessibility Compliance and Universal Design Services) to turn UX concepts into feasible digital solutions.
- Ensured UX best practices across the organization aligned with business values.
- Developed and implemented a robust design system for the client.
Technologies: Accessibility, Design Systems, B2C, UX Design, UI Design, Prototyping, Ideation
Senior UX/UI Designer
2018 - 2021
WOM Chile
- Planned and conducted user research methodologies to obtain key insights used to improve existing products, create new design strategies, or build new features.
- Optimized payment methods to increase end users' conversation and engagement, achieving an adoption rate of 78%.
- Ideated, designed, prototyped, and tested every user flow before launching the mobile application to a market of 2 million users.
- Worked with Lean-Agile methodologies, ensuring the effectiveness of the deliverables.
- Ensured a user-centric approach based on data-driven decisions and business interests.
Technologies: Figma, Abstracts, InVision, Maze, Optimal Workshop, Design Sprints, Web App Design, Dashboard Design, Ideation
UX Designer
2017 - 2018
Acid Labs
- Conducted user research to provide actionable insights to stakeholders by effectively communicating the results.
- Optimized the user's workflow in the platform, improving performance by over 45%.
- Matched and managed team and business expectations about the project's functions and impact.
- Implemented and promoted design best practices to stakeholders and the user experience team to ensure successful deliverables.
- Drove user engagement by selecting the new platform's main critical features and designing the entire experience around them.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch, Optimal Workshop, Maze, User Interviews, UX Research, User Flows, User Journeys, Information Architecture (IA), B2B, UX Design, SaaS, Web App Design, Dashboard Design, Ideation
Art Director and Co-founder
2016 - 2018
Design Heaps
- Managed multidisciplinary teams successfully between Canada, The United States, and Venezuela for clients like Café Mezcal, eBay, DNA Consultants, and Panthers Lodge.
- Led and implemented Agile methodologies in collaboration with key stakeholders to achieve compliance with the projects' objectives set throughout data analysis, which reflected improvements in user task success, retention, and conversion.
- Worked closely with engineer directors, account managers, and talents from different cultural backgrounds and time zones to create successful multidisciplinary teams for our clients.
Technologies: Optimal Workshop, Maze, Adobe Creative Suite, UX Design, UI Design, Project Management, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web Marketing, Branding, Web App Design, Ideation
UX/UI Designer
2013 - 2014
Appetite+, Inc.
- Worked as the primary user experience and interface designer on rebranding, improving, and creating new features for version 2.0 of the mobile app.
- Structured my design approach based on qualitative and quantitative information obtained during the research process with stakeholders and the development team provided.
- Obtained a new investment from Start-Up Chile and gained recognition from Intel Challenge Latin America and The Media Accelerator Program Latin America in 2013 in Miami, USA.
Technologies: Sketch, UX Research, UX Design, UI Design, Branding, Value Proposition, User Flows, User Journeys, Optimal Workshop, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Social Networks, Information Architecture (IA), B2C, Mobile UI, iOS, Web App Design, Ideation
Education
2002 - 2007
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design
University José Maria Vargas - Caracas, Venezuela
Certifications
JULY 2020 - PRESENT
How to Design for Augmented and Virtual Reality
The Interaction Design Foundation
APRIL 2020 - PRESENT
UX Management: Strategy & Tactics
The Interaction Design Foundation
MARCH 2020 - PRESENT
UX Research — Methods and Best Practices
The Interaction Design Foundation
FEBRUARY 2019 - PRESENT
Production and Management of Digital Projects
University of Chile
JANUARY 2019 - PRESENT
Information Architecture
University of Chile
MAY 2018 - PRESENT
Design Sprint Foundations
Udacity