Raúl Aguilar

Senior Product Designer @ Platzi | UX, UI, End-to-End Product Design

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

About

¡Hola!, I’m a proactive and highly adaptable collaborative Senior UX Designer with over +10 years of experience finding elegant and easy-to-implement solutions to design and business challenges. I love to listen and understand the user’s needs to break down and simplify complex problems to find the best solutions. I have collaborated with early-stage startups and established corporations worldwide with diverse business backgrounds. I’m a team player, so I believe in cross-functional teams where designers, engineers, product managers, and leaders collaborate to ideate and execute a shared vision. I currently live in Guadalajara, Mexico, and sometimes travel around the world, sharing stories with my camera. I have a passion for learning everything about technology, design, and travel, but recently, I’ve been interested in what makes us humans. I love the startup ecosystem, which led me to support events like Startup Weekend, design conferences, and hackathons. I come from the Sonoran desert, a great city called Navojoa, where authentic grilled steak tacos live. The curiosity to learn and find better experiences made me move to Guadalajara, Jalisco. I want to contribute to a world where anything is possible, creating solutions that help people improve their lives. So they can make their dreams come true.

Experience

  • Product Designer at Platzi
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

    As a part of the Design team in the Student Experience Team at Platzi, I help create online learning experiences that transform learners from passive to active. I collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to develop solutions that enhance growth, engagement, and learning experiences. My responsibilities include: Solving complex interaction and system design problems. Using data to define goals and create effective user experiences. Creating deliverables, from prototypes to documentation. Leading design projects and improvement initiatives. Understanding learners' goals to support them effectively. Influencing product strategy and roadmap through cross-functional collaboration. Expanding cross-platform experience and design systems.

  • Senior Product Designer at Freelance
    Aug 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

    Worked with early startups and established corporations to help them to iterate existing products or ideate new ones through design and discovery methods.

  • Senior Product Designer at Schola
    Jun 2023 - Sep 2023 · 4 mos

    Design and implement effective and efficient navigation and information architecture for mobile apps and responsive websites. Create and maintain design guidelines, style guides, and pattern libraries for mobile apps and responsive websites. Ensure that designs are accessible and inclusive for all users. Collaborate with product and other teams to understand user needs and create user-centered designs Design and iterate on wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes for mobile apps and responsive websites.

  • Senior UX Designer at ShipHero
    May 2022 - Feb 2023 · 10 mos

    Worked with the UX team on redesigning several critical platform features (SaaS) as part of the migration process to the next version of ShipHero. Reduced the time warehouse managers can spend on a daily basis on how they will deal with orders that need to be shipped through a redesigned dashboard which includes everything they need to know to start to fulfill.

  • Senior Product Designer at Raizen, Inc.
    Apr 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Worked with early startups and established corporations to help them design and devise products or new lines of business through product discovery, design thinking, and design sprints. Built design systems ready to scale for design teams.