Product (UX) Designer

I a Product Designer with 4+ years of experience creating intuitive and impactful user experiences.  With a Computer Science and Business Administration background, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to my work. 

đź“ŤAmsterdam, NL

🗣️ English, Spanish (native)

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With a business-focused mindset and a keen grasp of user-centred design, I excel in developing solutions grounded in evidence-based practices. My approach involves balancing user requirements and business goals to create well-informed solutions. I thrive within an empowered, collaborative team and champion an iterative methodology. By constantly monitoring performance and analysing metrics, I detect issues and navigate to effective solutions through rapid prototyping and testing.

Main Expertise

Product (UX) Design

Designs and delivers end-to-end products by conducting user research, crafting intuitive UI, prototyping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and iterating using data for seamless user experiences.

Main skillset

UX/UI
UX Research
Testing
Prototype
Data-driven Design

Business Strategic Design

Develop innovative strategies by combining design thinking and business insights to address complex challenges, identify opportunities, and deliver solutions that align organizational goals with user needs for sustainable growth

Main skillset

Strategic Thinking
Market Research
Problem Solving
Design Thinking

Career Development

Focuses on personal and professional growth by applying the STAR framework to map progress and mentor fellow designers, fostering their career development through structured guidance and actionable insights

Main skillset

Mentorship
Goal Setting
Feedback Skills
Self-Assessment

My toolset includes

Case Studies

Visual Work

Words of Appreciation

"Inspiration for how to solve experience problems: making the right questions, looking for answers, testing possibilities, and finding real user results. Lovely person with amazing team spirit. Always available to help and discuss topics about design solutions. She brings her point of view always supported by logic and human behaviour."
Daniela VieiraBitpanda
“…In her daily work, Karla was a highly reliable, resilient, and efficient employee. She was characterized by her great work motivation as well as her outstanding extent of initiative, engagement, and commitment... In a quantitative and qualitative regard, Karla always obtained excellent work results. [...] The ideas she contributed have made a significant impact on the success of the Team as well as N26”
Marina JakulicN26
"She would always be up for a session with the senior design team to discuss or improve something that she was working on. The best part was that we would all be carried away by that spirit and would do the same thing! Any team that she joins will be energised by her positivity, eagerness and curiosity, and any project she works on is bound to be made with care, quality and thoroughness."
Mikel AguirreBitpanda
"I've had the privilege of collaborating with Karla on multiple projects and I was always impressed by her creative approach to problem-solving and her ability to clearly communicate her design ideas. I loved that she emphasised seeking continuous feedback to ensure that her design progress was on the right track. This really helped us all be on the same page and led to quick results"
Zsuzsanna CsontosTheNu

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More about me

Education

2023 · Service Design (Interaction Design Foundation – Online)

2023 · Graphic Design Specialization (CalArts – Online)

2020 · UX Specialization (CalArts – Online)

2014-2018 · Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (UABC – Baja California, MĂ©xico)

2010-2013 · Associate Degree in Business Administration (CETis 25 – Baja California, MĂ©xico)

Professional Background

2024 – Today · Designer & Founder – Soda Studio (Ams, NL)

2023-24 · Senior Product Designer – The Nu (Ams, NL)

2022-23 · UX Designer – Bitpanda (Ams, NL)

2021-22 · Product Designer – N26 (Ber, DE)

2019-21 · UX Designer – Contractor (Ber, DE)

More Stuff

Communities: 
💫ADPList Amsterdam Ambassador 

Conferences: 
Attends major design conferences (in person or virtually) like Figma Config, and UX London

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