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Product designer with 4+ years of experience designing complex, high-traffic platforms in regulated industries. I’ve worked across discovery to implementation, balancing compliance requirements, business goals, and engineering constraints—often with legacy systems. Currently shipping products with AI-assisted workflows, using structured approaches to constrain AI behavior and keep experiences consistent with design system rules and intended interaction patterns.…Product designer with 4+ years of experience designing complex, high-traffic platforms in regulated industries. I’ve worked across discovery to implementation, balancing compliance requirements, business goals, and engineering constraints—often with legacy systems. Currently shipping products with AI-assisted workflows, using structured approaches to constrain AI behavior and keep experiences consistent with design system rules and intended interaction patterns.

Juan Ignacio Vergara

UX Designer, Product Designer, UI Designer, +2

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Product designer with 4+ years of experience designing complex, high-traffic platforms in regulated industries. I’ve worked across discovery to implementation, balancing compliance requirements, business goals, and engineering constraints—often with legacy systems. Currently shipping products with AI-assisted workflows, using structured approaches to constrain AI behavior and keep experiences consistent with design system rules and intended interaction patterns.…Product designer with 4+ years of experience designing complex, high-traffic platforms in regulated industries. I’ve worked across discovery to implementation, balancing compliance requirements, business goals, and engineering constraints—often with legacy systems. Currently shipping products with AI-assisted workflows, using structured approaches to constrain AI behavior and keep experiences consistent with design system rules and intended interaction patterns.

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Product designer with 4+ years of experience designing complex, high-traffic platforms in regulated industries. I’ve worked across discovery to implementation, balancing compliance requirements, business goals, and engineering constraints—often with legacy systems.

Currently shipping products with AI-assisted workflows, using structured approaches to constrain AI behavior and keep experiences consistent with design system rules and intended interaction patterns.

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Work Experience

AI-Assisted Product Development

January 1, 2024 - Present

Built and shipped personal products end to end using a Figma-to-production workflow. Migrated designs into Next.js, React, and Tailwind with Claude Code and MCP integrations for versioning and deployment on Vercel and Supabase. Constrained AI output via structured agent instructions and reusable skill definitions to follow design system rules and intended interaction patterns. Conducted an IRB-approved study with 7+ graduate students and professionals applying HCI principles to constrain AI behavior for a chat-based AI-powered reading assistant, supporting retention rather than replacing user thinking.

UI/UX Designer at Banco Pichincha

January 1, 2021 - July 1, 2024

Designed consumer products at scale for a 4M-user mobile app and a 2M-user web platform, as well as internal tools, while expanding a shared design system used across teams. Reduced bounce rate by 12% through information architecture restructuring and rebuilding the UI with reusable components during a CMS migration. Cut business account opening from 21 days to 7 by redesigning digital onboarding for a 10+ year legacy process, collaborating with product, engineering, and operations. Led a QR-based money transfer channel from flow/interface definition through usability testing; feature shipped and remained in production two years. Conducted field research across 8 branches with 20+ customers, leading to a redesign of bill payments end-to-end experience. Built and documented responsive design system components adopted by 25+ designers, providing usage guidelines.

Front-End Developer at Paseo San Francisco

January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2020

Redesigned and built shopping center web catalog interfaces using HTML, CSS, React, and Tailwind, working directly with developers on production code. Designed and prototyped a gamified augmented reality tenant experience where visitors scanned QR codes to collect rewards and unlock discounts.