🌐 San Salvador, El Salvador

Senior Web and UX designer for fast-moving marketing agencies

I connect strategic UX design with production-ready web development enabling US-based agencies to design, build, and launch high-converting websites in alignment with business goals.

Core Stack: Figma, Webflow, WordPress, Hotjar, Google Analytics
🌐 San Salvador, El Salvador

Senior Web and UX designer for fast-moving marketing agencies

I combine strategic UX design with production-ready web development to help US-based agencies efficiently launch high-converting websites aligned with business objectives.

Core Stack: Figma, Webflow, WordPress, Hotjar, Google Analytics
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Background overview

Hybrid Expertise Built for Fast-Paced Agencies

I bridge creative visual design and technical web development. With formal training in graphic design and software engineering, I build functional, conversion-focused websites that perform reliably in production.
In the past four years, I have partnered with remote teams across the US, Canada, and LATAM, collaborating with marketing strategists and developers to deliver visually compelling, technically sound projects on schedule.

Core Skills

UX/UI & Prototyping: Designing clean, accessible, and intuitive digital experiences in Figma.

Full-Cycle CMS Development: Building and launching production-ready sites on Webflow, WordPress, and Shopify.

Conversion & Analytics: Using Hotjar and Google Analytics to optimize user journeys and boost site performance.

Design Systems: Creating organized Figma libraries and reusable components that streamline developer handoffs.

My design process involves four stages:

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Research

During this phase, I define goals, scope, and user needs. I also research competitors.

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Ideation

I design early-stage ideas through wireframes to test functionality and ease-of-use.

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Visual Design

Typography, layout, color and micro-interactions help me create a stunning product.

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Refine & Improve

With enough feedback from users and developers, I continue to make things better.

Selected Projects

The Challenge:

Sayhello, a creative agency, ran into big problems with its in-house project management tool, Orders. Built in 2021 to make work easier and boost team efficiency, Orders became hard to use and overloaded with features. This frustrated the team so much that many stopped using it. Fixing these issues was key to winning back trust and showing why a redesign mattered.

Fast forward to 2024, I conducted a series of interviews and user testing with the old version of Orders. I was able to identify the following:

  • Account Executives: Found it slow and tedious to create projects and assign tasks, which hurt their productivity.
  • Team Members: Struggled to figure out which tasks to tackle first, leading to confusion and missed deadlines.
  • Lack of Profitability Insights: The tool didn’t provide useful information about project profits or how each team member contributed.

To tackle these problems, I led the redesign project, collaborating closely with three developers. I defined the overall strategy, gathered user requirements, shaped the product vision, and oversaw the design process. I also led user interviews and stakeholder workshops to ensure our solutions were grounded in real team needs. I organized a three-phase redesign project:

Phase 1: Define scope

Define Scope: Collaborating closely with key stakeholders, we held a series of workshops, one-on-one interviews, and distributed short surveys to gather a range of perspectives.

These methods helped us surface real pain points and opportunities, allowing us to establish the core functionalities for the revamped Orders. By ensuring their needs and feedback directly shaped the redesign process, we built trust and buy-in from the start.

  • Client, service, and task databases
  • Seamless project creation and task assignment
  • Time tracking capabilities

Phase 2:  Interface Redesign

We conducted one-on-one interviews, shadowed team members during their daily workflows, and ran short usability tests to better understand their frustrations and needs. This mix of research methods helped team members feel listened to and valued, which was important for building trust in the redesign. Using their feedback and what we learned, we:

  • Simplified the interface to make it easier to use, with a clean and straightforward design.
  • We focused on making the desktop version work best, so everyone could work more efficiently.
  • We made it easier for account executives to create projects, reducing any hassles.

Phase 3: Iterative Improvements

We kept improving the redesign through ongoing feedback and updates.

  • Project Creation: Our initial approach focused on minimizing steps. But we soon saw that the system needed more information. So, we grouped related items to speed up the process and make it easier to follow, helping teams visualize and manage a large volume of tasks.
  • Ultimately, we implemented a color-coded system based on due dates, providing a clear and concise visual representation of task priorities.

The Impact:

The new version of Orders has been a big success.

  • Account executives now feel more confident and satisfied because their daily work runs more smoothly. Project creation is 80% faster, which motivates everyone to keep improving. Overall team adoption of the new Orders tool grew from 45% before the redesign to 92% within two months of launch.
  • Reported user errors and support requests related to Orders declined by 60%, and the average time to resolve issues dropped by half. These improvements have helped boost productivity and user trust across the agency.
  • Improved Team Collaboration: The simpler interface and better task management have made it much easier for the team to work together and get more done.
  • Now that users can see useful data about project profits and team performance, they feel more confident making decisions.
By putting users first and keeping the design simple, we turned Orders from a source of frustration into a real asset for Sayhello. Throughout the redesign process, we used tools such as Figma for wireframing and prototyping, Miro for online collaboration and workshops, and Jira to manage development tasks and track progress. On the development side, the team built the tool with React for the front end, Node.js for the back end, and MongoDB as the database. These technologies let us iterate quickly and respond effectively to user feedback.
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Orders

Revamping a project management tool resulted in a 60% increase in team members workflow.

Visible Outsource is a consulting firm focused on personalized HR solutions. They work with businesses to help them find the right people—not just to fill seats, but to grow teams that thrive.

In October 2023, they came to us with a clear concern: their job-seeking platform was falling flat. Sign-ups were low, engagement was declining, and the user experience wasn’t holding up. The result? They couldn’t confidently pitch their subscription service to recruiters and HR teams. The product simply wasn’t working the way it needed to.

One Platform, Two Very Different Users

The heart of the problem was this: the platform had to serve both software engineers looking for jobs and recruiters trying to hire them. Those are two very different user journeys, but they were crammed into a single, outdated system.

Our job was to redesign the experience for both sides—making it easy for engineers to find the right roles and giving recruiters the tools to quickly spot strong candidates.

  • Navigation was confusing and disjointed. Users frequently got lost while trying to complete basic tasks. For example, engineers often clicked a "view jobs" CTA only to land on a login page, derailing their flow entirely.
  • The UI was visually cluttered and dated. Most engineers told us the design felt overwhelming and hard to trust. There was no clear text hierarchy, inconsistent layouts, and poor contrast that made scanning difficult. The bounce rate? Around 60%.
  • Job listings weren’t up to date. Many postings were from 2020 or 2021, which made users question whether the platform was still active. Several mentioned feeling confused about what was actually available—or if anything was.

We didn’t just give the interface a facelift—we restructured how users moved through it.

A major upgrade was the introduction of multi-step forms. These acted like mini workflows: for engineers, it meant entering skills and preferences in a way that surfaced real matches instead of generic listings. For recruiters, it streamlined the process of defining a role and reviewing candidates without digging through irrelevant profiles.

Behind the scenes, we also worked closely with the client to improve content management. Job listings became easier to update regularly, keeping the platform fresh and relevant.

We tackled the project in two main phases:

  • Phase One focused on untangling layout and navigation issues. We restructured pages, simplified user flows, and introduced a more intuitive hierarchy so users could understand where they were and what to do next at every step.
  • Phase Two focused on the interface polish. We updated visuals, added consistency to components, and created a look and feel that gave recruiters confidence in the product—key to launching a new freemium model.
  • User sign-ups increased by 15%. More engineers found the platform worth exploring—and sticking with.
  • Recruiters saw faster hiring cycles. On average, they were able to identify and reach out to qualified candidates within two weeks—down from over a month previously.
What made this project stand out wasn’t just the design updates—it was aligning every change to real user behavior. By fixing what mattered most to each group, we helped Visible Outsource move forward with a product they could actually scale.
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Visible Outsource

A job-seeking platform gained 15% more users with a polished user experience and improved UI.

In 2025, I was working at a marketing agency in the U.S. when a BPO company from Panama reached out. Their website was outdated and struggled to turn leads into repeat customers. At the time, their monthly website traffic averaged about 1,700 visits, with a conversion rate below 20% and low job application completions. They faced several issues: their products and services felt disconnected, navigation was confusing, and important pages had serious accessibility problems.

Key pain points:

  • Misaligned audience: The company offered many services, but its content did not clearly show which companies it wanted to reach or what made it stand out.
  • Low user conversions: Fewer people from Panama and Colombia were applying for jobs because the website was hard to use.
  • Outdated branding: The company had just rebranded, but they struggled to bring the new look and feel to their website.
It's worth mentioning that our CMO first helped the company with their positioning and sales processes before we started working on the website.

The Solution:

During this project, I focused on three main areas:

  • First, I took the company’s new branding elements and created practical components and a web style guide. To keep everyone aligned, I led a short remote workshop with their designers and marketers to walk them through applying these assets across the website and other key touchpoints.
  • Second, I led the UX redesign for the whole website, using the content strategy my CMO developed.
  • Third, I designed and built the new website in WordPress. For the build, I used the Elementor Pro page builder to create flexible layouts and Advanced Custom Fields for dynamic content management. To optimize performance and security, I implemented caching with WP Rocket and ensured all plugins and components met accessibility standards.

I worked closely with the company’s marketing team to standardize the elements they wanted on the site. After gathering their feedback, I suggested two options for bringing their new brand kit into the website. Once we chose an optimal approach, I built a small UI library in Figma. This helped the team keep things consistent across pages and made future updates easier.

I began by reviewing their user flows to find issues with navigation, accessibility, and conversions. Here’s what I found:

  • Several primary and secondary CTAs were scattered throughout the site, which could easily confuse users.
  • Low contrast between text and background colors in several sections.
  • Poor text hierarchy within the services and industries subpages.
  • The website layout often broke on mobile devices.

Once I found these issues, I teamed up with my CMO to create new user flows, which we later turned into wireframes. While he worked on the content, I designed the layouts for the new pages. We decided to use templates for the services, industries, locations, and blog pages, while the rest would stay as standalone pages.

Before starting the build, I backed up the current website. I then cleaned up the environment by removing any plugins, widgets, or third-party resources that the website didn’t need. As usual, I set up a standard WordPress theme and made sure the most important parts of the existing site stayed intact.

Since the project was large and my CMO was busy updating content, I needed a flexible design. Rather than following a step-by-step process, I started by building components from the UI library and page templates as the foundation.

I built several sections as global components instead of individual elements. This saved time and made it easier to handle the many revisions and weekly reviews with my CMO and Iterum’s marketing team. To keep the project organized, I created a shared Trello task board to track progress on each page, log feedback, and assign action items after every review session.

I collected feedback from all stakeholders in Google Docs and consolidated comments into clear tasks before each update cycle. As I finished each set of pages, I tested them for performance, accessibility, and responsiveness. After my CMO and the BPO company’s marketing director approved them, I published them one by one.

  • The website now offers a much better user experience. The layout and content work together to help the main audience navigate the site. Users can easily tell the difference between primary and secondary buttons. The site has a clear element hierarchy, and everything meets web accessibility standards.
  • * Website traffic increased significantly, rising by 30% to over 2,200 visits per month. Within three months, qualified leads jumped by 25%, with a steady flow from companies in the United States and Latin America.
  • Job applications also jumped from people in Panama and Colombia. With a new brand identity, Iterum connected with people on a personal level and attracted qualified talent to its contact centers.
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Iterum Connections

Redesigned and developed a fully responsive, accessible WordPress site that drove a 30% increase in monthly traffic a surge in qualified leads

The Challenge:

One of my first projects at Spark was leading the agency’s website redesign and development. After a brand refresh in August 2024, I led the entire process, from planning to launch. I managed everything from discovery and information architecture to wireframing and building the site in Webflow, using both templates and custom code.

I handled front-end development, prototyped in Figma, and ensured new features were technically feasible. When I needed collaboration, I worked with the marketing director on content and teamed up with the graphic designer to bring brand visuals into the site. I set project priorities, managed timelines, and gathered feedback to deliver a website that generated leads and made an impact.

Key pain points:

  • Lack of time: My marketing director had too many tasks to handle, so he couldn’t develop the whole website himself.
  • Shortage of UX designers: Since no one had filled this role before, I led the design phase and acted as a consultant for the team.
  • Front-end development and maintenance: With my basic web development skills, I also handled this part of the project.
I mainly used Webflow to build and manage the website, adding custom HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript for interactive features. One technical challenge was creating a dynamic testimonials section on the homepage. Since Webflow’s CMS didn’t support the carousel we wanted, I built a custom JavaScript solution that pulled testimonial data from the CMS and let users scroll through quotes smoothly on any device. I ensured the content loaded properly and the design stayed accessible and fast. I also used Figma to prototype and share designs with the team.

Phase 1

To work more efficiently, my marketing director and I worked in parallel. While he worked on the content strategy, I started defining user flows, the sitemap, and website navigation. He sent me drafts during the week, which I used to design layouts and test how well they worked. Since he had already identified the main audience, I focused on navigation, layout, and user conversions. We tackled visual design later on.

After we agreed on user flows and wireframes, I started building early drafts of the website in Webflow. We wanted to collect feedback on performance and conversions before moving on to a more detailed visual design.

We tested the main pages—homepage, services, and about us—during September 2024. After a month, we learned the following:

  • The overall structure lacked consistent conversion paths.
  • We lacked case studies to support the content and help users decide.
  • Information was overwhelming across each service subpage.

Phase 2

Based on the feedback, we both saw that we needed a new approach to improve the website’s performance. My marketing director updated the content strategy to sharpen the messaging, while I redesigned user journeys and wireframes. We worked closely together for three weeks during this phase.

After making the needed changes, we tested the new pages again. This time, the results improved significantly. Visitors understood Spark’s value and services more easily, and we saw steady traffic of over 60 users between November and December 2024. Most importantly, demo sign-ups rose by 40 percent, and we doubled inbound leads from the website’s contact forms.

Phase 3

With the new pages in place, I started building a small UI library in Figma that the team could update as needed. I worked with my graphic design colleague to turn her brand kit elements into easy-to-use components.

After my marketing director and I agreed on the UI library, I took on a bigger task: expanding user journeys and the website layout into a full experience. By then, we were five months into the project. To keep things organized and the team on track, I divided the work into weekly sprints with clear goals and deliverables.

I set up regular check-ins with my marketing director and our designer through live meetings and online messages. This helped us share feedback, review prototypes, and make decisions quickly. For project management, I used Notion to track tasks, deadlines, and updates. Having everything in one place kept our priorities clear and deadlines on schedule, even when new needs came up.

We added a blog to help Spark stand out as an AI-driven agency and boost website traffic. I used templates and global components from our library to quickly build most of the site’s layout. By the end of January 2025, we had a robust structure.

The Impact:

Since January 2025, Spark’s website has had several content updates, but the main layout is still the same. Analytics through March 2025 showed steady performance. After launch, Spark closed several deals with BPO companies, and regular blog posts increased traffic from about 60 to 96 monthly users.

These results helped Spark reach its goal of generating more qualified leads and strengthening its position in the BPO sector. More website traffic increased brand awareness, and more closed deals boosted revenue and supported the agency’s long-term goals.

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Spark Website

End-to-end redesigned and built a custom Webflow site that doubled inbound form leads, boosted demo sign-ups by 40%, and grew monthly traffic by 0%

What past colleagues say about me

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Growth Director @ Sayhello

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CEO @ Sayhello

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Marketing Director @ Spark

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Adam Lightfield
CEO @ Spark

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