I'm Carlos—a product-driven designer, tech minded & very team player. I work to understand user problems and design workflows, interactions, and visual interfaces.
I partner with engineering, product, and business folks to find elegant but practical solutions—focused on AI, systems, and shipping work that scales.
1 Product-first: clear problems, pragmatic tradeoffs, and outcomes worth measuring.
2 Curious about AI—explore fast, prototype, test, ship, and learn in the loop.
3 Systems thinking—patterns, components, and UI that scale without losing clarity.
4 Designed to scale with the product—and the small delights that make it memorable.
Selected work
A small selection from the past decade—product thinking, accessibility, design systems, and UI.
Writing
Notes, writings, and small bets—thinking by building.
The Human Creativity Benchmark
A framework for evaluating AI in creative work that treats evaluator disagreement as signal, not noise.
The Learning Loop
The gap between attempt and correction is where expertise lives. That's what AI can actually compress.
AI for better outcomes
Generating UI faster is fine. Understanding what to build in the first place — that's the part AI can actually change.
AI in Design 2026 Report
I'm doing in a day what used to take a week. But figuring out what to build — that hasn't moved at all.
It's Not the AI
If leadership thinks design is mostly 'making screens,' of course they'll believe prompting a model replaces the role.
Three critics for every flow
A single prompt that reviews any flow through three lenses and returns one consolidated set of findings.
Write to think first, then prompt
Dump what you know first—PRD, research, gaps—then use AI to poke holes in your thinking, not to design.
Discovery Over Delivery
“Should this exist?” As AI speeds up execution, understanding what to build becomes more valuable than shipping it faster.
Playground
Side projects and experiments from the past few years.
Nones
Baby care tracking for exhausted parents—quick logging, logical days, and plain-language insights.
Favbox
Imagine to know what your industry leaders are reading or watching? Now it's possible. Favbox is a place to discover new perspectives and share your own.
Keepkee
There's so much to remember. We password manage. You forget about the tricky things.