Okay, so who is Carlos? 🫣
Hello there! Salutations from my desk.
I’m Carlos, a 26 y/o Product Designer working in central London with a background in the manufacturing, hospitality and publishing industries and a diploma from a UX Design Bootcamp.
I have lived in 4 different countries and speak 3 different languages (guess which one is the third), have a tendency to laugh at all times even if it is inappropriate and love to talk about movies and music. I also eat a lot!
My many hobbies include baking (I make a mean red velvet), playing The Sims and League of Legends until my PC crashes (poor thing is old), randomly deciding to rewatch entire movie sagas when I should probably be asleep and ordering desserts at 11:59 pm.
Why Product Design tho? 🧐
The reason why I decided to embark on this digital design journey is that I realized that UX is a field that encompasses many of the fields I have been interested in before, such as psychology and art, and that I could combine them into something that can make a positive impact in people’s lives while being able to play with shapes, colours and composition, making art.
On a more personal level, I always strived to work in a progressive work environment where people can be their true authentic selves and grow as people and develop professionally. After finding the UX designer’s communities, I believe this is one of the best places to be. Surrounded by creative professionals who care about people.
What is he doing now? 🤓
I’m glad you asked; well, currently, I’m working as the lead UX/UI Designer for Hearst Magazines UK, across all of its pretty amazing brands (16 in total!) and I’m also doing freelance graphic, branding and product design on the side as these are though times (no lies detected) and because apparently I can’t say no to people in need. How noble indeed.
So, in Hearst UK, I work with my immediate PDE team (Lead PM, 2 devs and 1 QA Eng.) but also with a plethora of teams from all regions (given how massive the company is), and multiple thirdparties and agencies (as we outsource specific skill sets/tech stakcs.)
Here, I have had the opportunity to work on redesigning the Digital Spy website, reskinning the website and two apps for Good Housekeeping, introducing a training plans feature for the Runner’s World app, creating activation and recirculation components for all UK and other international brands, and many more!
Oh, what do I like? 😍
Below you can see some of my favourite music albums, movies, series, videogames and drawings I drew :p
