Author: Leonel

  • Will AI take our jobs? (Spoiler alert) Of course yes.

    Will AI take our jobs? (Spoiler alert) Of course yes.

    What did you expect? Did you think they were going to invent a super-intelligent slave employee who can work at the speed of light, without legal rights, retirement, or vacations, and that costs a fraction of what a UX Designer or Product Designer costs, and it wouldn’t replace you? Listen to this paragraph dictated by…

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  • Does Figma Want to Take Over the World?

    Does Figma Want to Take Over the World?

    Figma made a very innovative move by offering not only an excellent tool for designing and prototyping interfaces but also an outstanding collaborative work tool like FigJam. Leveraging an easy-to-use system to allow non-designers to use it as a replacement for PowerPoint or Google Slides is a next-level move. They are entering new and unknown…

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  • How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)

    How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)

    An incredible talk by Sam Altman (Y Combinator, OpenAI) and Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook, Asana) focused on recommendations, ideas, mistakes, product advice, teams, and execution for digital products.

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  • What is a UX specialist for?

    What is a UX specialist for?

    Whether a UX Designer or a Product Designer, many times companies are not clear about the role they should fulfill, and worse, they don’t know how to leverage a UX resource within their teams. As I see it, a Product Designer (and also a UX Designer) should be the link that connects and aligns user…

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  • Errors made by the startups I worked at that could have been avoided

    Errors made by the startups I worked at that could have been avoided

    Throughout my career, I have worked in different types and sizes of startups, from small ventures with three founders, a developer, and a designer who are risking their savings and loans to start (pre-seed), to startups with more than 60 people with seed and series A investment rounds of over 4 million dollars. It is…

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