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Available 2026

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
/ 05 — By the numbers
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Years of practice
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Users impacted
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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.

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