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Designing the human side of an AI era.TM

───Doug Vargas·Senior Product Designer × Mercadolibre Andes
Where I've worked
01 / 05
ML
2024 — 2026
Mercadolibre
Andes Design System · Tech Lead
/ 01 — The Manifesto

Designing human products
for an AI era©

/AThe role

Senior Product Designer × Design Systems Architect — currently leading components at Andes/Mercadolibre.

/BThe practice

Twelve years translating ambiguity into interfaces — banking dashboards to e-commerce systems used by millions.

/CThe edge

Bridging classical product craft with AI-native workflows: prompt design, generative UI, intelligent systems.

Product DesignAI-Driven InterfacesDesign SystemsUX ArchitecturePrototypingMobile & WebGenerative UIComponent LibrariesProduct DesignAI-Driven InterfacesDesign SystemsUX ArchitecturePrototypingMobile & WebGenerative UIComponent Libraries
/ 02 — Working principles

How I
approach
the work.

Idesignproductsattheboundarybetweencraftandcomputationwheretypographymeetsintent,wheresystemsbecomelanguage,andwhereAIstopsbeingafeatureandstartsbeingacollaborator.Aftertwelveyearsinsidebanks,marketplaces,andcruiselines,I'velearnedthatgoodinterfacesarenotdrawntheyarenegotiated.

DougBarranquilla, 2026
/ 03 — Capabilities

Four ways
I work.

01/04

Product Design

End-to-end product thinking — from research and journeys to UI craft and prototypes that ship. Mobile, web, dashboards, marketplaces.

UX StrategyWireframesPrototypingUI Design
02/04

Design Systems

Building, scaling, and maintaining design libraries used by hundreds of designers and engineers. Tokens, components, governance.

TokensComponentsGovernanceDocumentation
03/04

AI × Interface

Designing with and for generative systems. Prompt-driven UX, conversational interfaces, AI agent flows, and ethical guardrails.

Prompt DesignGenerative UIAgent FlowsLLM UX
04/04

Tech Leadership

Leading design systems orgs across cross-functional engineering teams. Mentorship, design ops, and shipping at platform scale.

MentorshipDesign OpsCross-platformStrategy
/ Tools — Daily kit

The tools that shape my craft.

Figma
Sketch
Photoshop
Illustrator
After Effects
Notion
Webflow
Framer
GitHub
Cursor
Claude
ChatGPT
v0
Midjourney
Figma
Sketch
Photoshop
Illustrator
After Effects
Notion
Webflow
Framer
GitHub
Cursor
Claude
ChatGPT
v0
Midjourney
/ 04 — Experience

Twelve years,
five chapters.

From wireframing for early-stage startups in Barranquilla to leading design systems at LATAM's largest marketplace. Each chapter built on the last.

2024 — Jan 2026

Mercadolibre

Remote · LATAM
Technical Lead — Andes Design System

Advanced leadership at Andes. Building and maintaining components and the design library, establishing new foundational definitions, and collaborating cross-platform with engineering teams across LATAM.

2018 — 2024

Aval Digital Labs

Bogotá, Colombia
Senior Product Designer · Design System Gatekeeper

Mentorship, workshops, classes and design system advocacy for Banco de Occidente — one of the biggest banks in Colombia. Mobile and web interfaces at scale.

2017 — 2018

Globant

Medellín, Colombia
Senior Product Designer

Mobile and web design interfaces for Royal Caribbean Cruises. Cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product teams.

2017 — 2018

Qrvey

Barranquilla, Colombia
Lead UI Designer

Mobile and web design lead for Qrvey's analytics platform. Focused on UX/UI improvement for dashboards, charts and platform features.

2016 — 2017

Ideaware

Barranquilla, Colombia
Senior UX/UI Designer

Wireframes, UI Kits, prototypes for websites and applications. Foundation years of design systems thinking and product craft.

/ Education

Always
learning.

2022
Introduction to UI
Coursera
2020
Design System Essentials
Aval Digital Labs
2018
Design Foundations
Globant
2006 — 2009
Professional Graphic Designer
Universidad Autónoma del Caribe
/ 05 — By the numbers
0+
Years of practice
0M+
Users impacted
0
Companies shipped with
Components in production
/ 06 — Trusted by

Words from teammates.

Extremely professional and fast service. Doug is a master of detail and very creative. We've done 8 projects with him and every single one delivered above expectations. He doesn't just design — he architects how products should feel.

FS
Francesca Steri
Design Director · Aval Digital Labs
Project
Banco de Occidente · Velocity Design System