Santiago Baigorria, Designer in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Santiago Baigorria

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Bio

Santiago is an Argentine product designer with over 10+ years of experience delivering web and mobile experiences across finance, education, and Web3, to name a few. He has designed amazing solutions for a wide range of companies, including Glen Raven, Sunbrella, Pocket Network, Smith + Crown, Render Network (OTOY), Mixer, Medean, theBoardlist, and WorkTrip. Santiago specializes in UI and visual design for digital products, favoring clean and minimal approaches.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Designer

2013 - PRESENT
Toptal Clients
  • Worked with many clients, including Bolt Financial, Mixer (acquired by Microsoft), Medean, Edgewonk, theBoardlist (acquired by Board Prospects), ViewIt, ScaleFT, and Market Timers, among others.
  • Focused Most of my work at these companies/startups on UX, UI, and visual design for web and mobile products.
  • Designed Medean, a personal finance app focused on making personal finance simple (Medean Score), offering insight on how to improve spending habits and providing incentives to take action.
  • Designed theBoardlist, a curated marketplace for connecting candidates with global board opportunities. Board Prospects later acquired the company.
  • Joined the Mixer team for a while to design an analytics feature for the streaming service app. Microsoft later acquired the company.
Technologies: Nuclino, Trello, Basecamp, Slack, InVision, Zeplin, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, Figma

Designer

2012 - PRESENT
Santz Co.
  • Spent over 10 years with the company, collaborating with numerous clients across various projects. Santz Co. is my personal brand, reflecting my extensive experience and dedication in the tech industry.
  • Designed the Poktscan customer portal, a node-running management product for Pocket Network nodes.
  • Designed Soothe, a beautiful crypto wallet built by the Pocket Network team that supports many crypto assets, including $POKT.
  • Designed the Mercedes-Benz of Marin eCommerce website for 2021, a premier Mercedes-Benz dealer from San Rafael, California, offering a huge selection of new and pre-owned vehicles.
Technologies: Nuclino, Trello, Basecamp, Slack, InVision, Zeplin, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, Figma

Designer

2020 - 2024
Glen Raven
  • Worked for Glen Raven, a textile manufacturing company that designs, develops, and produces quality fabrics and textiles while offering exceptional distribution, logistics, and marketing to its clients.
  • Designed the Custom Fabrics B2B Portal, used by Glen Raven’s customers to place and manage textile orders, check inventory and product specifications, run reports, and use many other features.
  • Designed the Sunbrella custom window treatments portal, where Sunbrella customers can place and manage orders, get information regarding products, create quotes for their customers, and use many other features.
  • Involved in many smaller projects at the company, such as redesigning websites or smaller tools/products, among them a full redesign for the GlenGuard website, an overhaul of Glen Raven Reports, and new features for the Sunbrella website.
Technologies: InVision, Zeplin, Sketch, Slack

Designer

2019 - 2020
WorkTrip
  • Worked for WorkTrip, a web and mobile event management software that served as a centralized hub to communicate event and travel details to business travelers and event planners. WorkTrip was available for web, iOS, and Android.
  • Performed as a design lead to help build WorkTrip as a harmonic, consistent family of products. WorkTrip lacked a cohesive design language across its multiple platforms.
  • Designed the new face of WorkTrip and redesigned the brand’s website, web, iOS, and Android apps.
  • Designed multiple new features for both web and mobile, such as Tasks, custom registrations, surveys, and documents, among others.
Technologies: Nuclino, Slack, InVision, Zeplin, Sketch

Designer

2018 - 2019
Bright Iron Group
  • Worked with the Bright Iron Group, a consulting agency dedicated to engineering digital experiences.
  • Designed Charlie for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. I was mostly in charge of UI design, creating style guides and parts of the website, and some onboarding views.
  • Designed a few mobile app interfaces for a proposal for Nike.
Technologies: Trello, Slack, InVision, Sketch

Designer

2018 - 2019
Smith + Crown
  • Worked with Smith + Crown, one of the world’s leading blockchain research organizations, focusing on global trends, industry intelligence, and crypto-economic systems since 2013.
  • Designed SCI (Smith + Crown Intelligence), a platform that provided comprehensive coverage and in-depth analysis of emerging blockchain ecosystems.
  • Designed Smith + Crown’s website for 2019, and was also involved in exploratory branding concepts for the company.
Technologies: Trello, Slack, InVision, Sketch

Developer

2013 - 2015
Aerolab
  • Worked with Aerolab, a well-known product design agency that combines tailored user experience, custom design, and technology. They design and develop digital products for startups and leading brands.
  • Landed this job on my own as an 18-year-old kid. It was my first job. I’d say I was also at my design and development school for almost two years before I decided to get started as a freelance designer and developer.
  • Started in tech as a UI developer. I was deeply dedicated to coding pixel-perfect implementations of my colleagues’ work, interested in web performance and SEO, and loved Sublime Text.
  • Developed a number of projects, focusing mainly on websites and web apps for a range of clients, including Mazda, 8Coupons, FunTime, Ideame, Convincify, MSAC, PlateaBaja, 123Seguro, Government of the City of Buenos Aires, and IDSA Group.
  • Contributed to a side project called Jukebox, a democratized music playlist app.
  • Reviewed designs and polished flaws that survived QA.
Technologies: Basecamp, Slack, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Education

2012 - 2012

Academic Degree in Mathematics & Computer Science

Cambridge International AS Exams - International

2009 - 2012

Academic Degree in Mathematics & Computer Science

Cambridge International IGCSE Exams - International

2001 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics & Computer Science

Cardenal Newman - San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Skills

Tools

Sketch, Nuclino, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Zeplin, InVision, Slack, Basecamp, Trello, Manufacturing

Platforms

Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, Figma

Industry Expertise

Education, Casinos & Gaming

Other

Product Design, UI Design, Visual Design, Data Visualization, Web Design, Mobile Design, Dashboard Design, User Interface (UI), Branding, Web App Design, UX Design, User Experience (UX), Creative Direction, Finance, Fintech, Cryptocurrency, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Design, English, eCommerce, B2B, Crypto

Experience

  • Web Design - 10 years
  • Visual Design - 8 years
  • Data Visualization - 8 years
  • Mobile Design - 8 years
  • Dashboard Design - 8 years
  • Sketch - 8 years
  • UI Design - 8 years
  • Product Design - 8 years

Tools

  • Sketch
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