Senior Product Designer with a broad background across UX, branding, and editorial design. Master's degree in Design, turning complex problems into clear, well-crafted products for global clients and start-ups.

• Product Design
• UX/UI Design
• Design Thinking
• Visual Communication
• Marketing Strategy
• Social Innovation
• Creative Ecosystems

UX Designer

GoDaddy, September 2024 - Present

• Designed SEO 1-Click, an approval-based flow that pre-fills AI-generated SEO recommendations from a customer's own published content, raising setup completion from 56% to 73% and cutting time-to-complete from 7m 18s to 2m 14s.
• Supported UX for GoDaddy Services, GoDaddy's "Done-For-You" marketing action system, contributing to a 57% quarter-over-quarter rise in conversions and a 224% year-over-year increase in leads.
• Ran user-tested experiments on the GoDaddy Services lead capture flow for hiring a GoDaddy expert, adjusting input fields, adding examples of past expert work, adapting the modal for different customer segments, and adding a photoshoot request checkbox.

Projects: GoDaddy Services, GoDaddy One-Click Experience

Lecturer

Universidad de Los Andes, August 2022 - Present

• Co-designed and co-teach "UX/UI: Diseño de Productos Digitales Innovadores," a continuing-education course guiding professionals through five modules from user research to low-fidelity prototyping.
• Teach "Estudio Básico Uno: Lenguajes," a foundational studio course training more than 50 students a year in concept creation across two and three dimensions.

Projects: UX Course, Lenguajes Course

Illustrator

Folha de S.Paulo, April 2017 - October 2025

• Illustrate a weekly political cartoon for Renato Terra's humor column at Folha de S.Paulo, covering events from Dilma Rousseff's impeachment to Lula's return to the presidency.
• Published more than a hundred illustrations across print and online editions over eight years, spanning different visual languages, concepts, and techniques.

Projects: Folha de S. Paulo

Senior UX Designer

Endava, January 2021 - August 2024

• Led the launch and adoption strategy for My Grameen, a bilingual mobile app for a microfinance nonprofit, running 1:1 usability tests with members over Zoom and working closely with center leaders and executives to improve core functionality and ship new features, which drove 98% member registration and an in-app Net Promoter Score of 88.
• Led UX and UI design for a U.S. fintech credit card app built from the ground up, shipping the MVP on an aggressive timeline through a two-week design-approval cadence with a 25-person cross-discipline team.
• Designed the marketing pages, documentation, and developer sandbox for a major bank's Payments Developer Portal, removing the need for a prior banking relationship to explore the platform.

Projects: Grameen America, Core Card, Developer Portal

Product Designer

A Piece of Pie, June 2020 - December 2020

• Led research for Seeds, running 36 in-depth interviews across three Colombian cities to test three early wellness-app concepts for older adults.
• Synthesized findings into six required product attributes, reshaping three disconnected app ideas into one integrated model built around levels of autonomy.
• Reframed three unvalidated app concepts into one adaptable ecosystem spanning five life areas, directly shaping the next design phase.

Projects: Seeds

Creative Designer

Goethe-Institut e.V., March 2019 - August 2019

• Designed over 200 visual assets for campaigns spanning Web, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
• Reached over 3.5 million people combined across social and web channels.
• Drew 294,000 attendees to 437 events held across 15 countries in tribute to the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt.

Projects: Humboldt y Las Américas

Creative Designer

Contém 1g, March 2013 - December 2015

• Created concepts and more than a hundred designs for different campaigns across Web, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Brazilian magazines to improve brand awareness and market growth.

Projects: Contém 1g

Creative Designer

Celso Longo + Daniel Trench, October 2012 - February 2013

• Designed the website in honor of the acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, administrated by the well-known Instituto Moreira Salles.
• Designed the art magazine Sesc-Videobrasil 8, curated by Moacir dos Anjos and featuring important artists worldwide such as Cao Guimarães, Francis Alÿs and Jimmie Durham.

Projects: Caderno Sesc Videobrasil

Creative Designer

Bienal de São Paulo, August 2011 - December 2012

• Winner proposal among 12 other Brazilian designers of a national call to develop the visual identity of the 30th Biennial.
• Participated in an exclusive workshop guided by the Dutch design duo Mevis & Van Deursen to create a design system later applied to all the communication of the exhibition.
• Awarded in Design Strategy by the Brazilian Graphic Design Association and Packaging and Graphics by the International Design Excellence Award Brazil.

Creative Designer

Design Emocional, October 2008 - March 2011

• Designed the new visual identity and communication for Escola Santi as part of their 40th-anniversary new business plan of growth and pedagogical innovation.

Projects: Escola Santo Inácio

Master of Design

University of Los Andes

Fields of study: Social Innovation, New Technologies, Creative Ecosystems, Service Design, Design Thinking

Projects: Clarice no IMS, Nido de Todos, Parebolas pa' que Entienda, El Primer Día de Clase, Laboratorio de Creación, Una San Andrés sostenible, Umbrella Chair, Poppla

Graphic Design Specialist

FAAP

Fields of study: Environmental Graphics, Surface Design, Editorial Design, Branding

Projects: A Escrita, Processo Criativo, Cria

Bachelor's degree in Social Communications

ESPM

Media Studies, Marketing, Advertising, Creativity

English (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent), Portuguese (Native)

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Gonzales, D. (2021). Aesthetics, Performativity, and Intertextuality in the Creation of a Digital Publication about Gender and Diversity for Early Childhood. The International Journal of the Image, 12(2), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8560/cgp/v12i02/1-14

Obregón, C., Nieman, C., y Gonzales, D. (2020). Visiones Desde El Diseño Para Una San Andrés Sostenible. Ediciones Uniandes. http://dx.doi.org/10.31179/arqdis.01

Bec en l'air (Ed.). (2015). 1000 crayons pour la liberté d'expression.

#id30Bienal

IDEA Brasil, 2013

Cartaz Cárcere Cotidiano

Winner, Cartaz Aberto Contest, Revista Bizz, 2014

ESPM Graduation Project

Winner, Prêmio Francisco Gracioso de Comunicação, 2007

Linha Purainova Dermocosméticos

Winner, Prêmio Atualidade Cosmética, 2011

1000 affiches pour dire

Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, 2015

10th ADG Graphic Design Biennial

ADG, 2013