Miguel Peniche


UI / UX Product Designer & Full Stack Developer

Summary

Hey there. I'm Miguel, programmer, designer and musician on a mission to improve human experiences through design, creativity and art in every possible way. I'm humble and kind, but also passionate and ambitious. With a background in marketing, I know the value of developing a great product with keeping business objectives in mind but focusing and understanding final customer needs. I have a Marketing degree in Mexico City's UNITEC (2009 -> 2013 gen).

Talents

  • Simplicity above all, less is more.
  • Focused on details, pixel perfect.
  • Fluent communication in english.
  • Design systems / dark and light themes.
  • Ultra fast learning curve.
  • Mission-driven delivery tasks.
  • Extremly organized work files & layers.
  • I'm not afraid to be wrong.

Experience

Benzinga -> UI / UX Product Designer

Remote -> Detroit, US. Trading ideas. Aug 2019 -> Aug 2021

I collaborated with the creation of a fully consistent design system for improving website, dashboard and landing pages visual appearance for a better user experience, focused in new users acquisition. One challenge I had was finding a way of grouping windows in the pro dashboard and make it intuitive for the user to open multiple windows with one click.

Figma Sketch App Animaapp
European Blockchain Solutions -> UI / UX Product Designer

Remote -> London, UK. Blockchain. Sep 2017 -> Jan 2018

Created a fully working wireframe / prototype for a mobile app for making digital small services, such as small contracts, using Blockchain technology. Challenge was to create a "easy for most people" to use user interface so we can show the prototype to potential investors.

Figma Sketch App MarvelApp
Raisehub -> Co-founder, CTO, Full Stack Developer

Mexico City, MX. Equity Crowdfunding. Nov 2015 -> March 2017

Created the branding, design system, UX / UI & developed a fully working web application with Ruby on Rails that communicates with other rest API's for payments. Challenge was to create a whole company from zero.

Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL HTML 5 CSS 3 Amazon S3 Heroku Rest API's
Berkeley University -> Full Stack Developer

Remote -> California, US. Education. Jun 2015 -> Nov 2015

Designed, developed & launched a fully working web application for their program "Cool Campus Challenge", a friendly competition to reduce UC's carbon footprint and create a culture of sustainability across the campuses. Challenge was to create an intuitive easy-to-use website so people from different campus could join and compete with pledges and world changing actions.

PHP MySQL HTML 5 CSS 3
Mentalia -> CTO, UI / UX Product Designer & Full Stack Developer

Mexico City, MX. Online training. Feb 2015 -> Present

Created the branding, design system & developed a web application that communicates with other rest API's. Challenge is to improve the personal and professional development of Mexico with innovation in education using modern and easy-to-use digital tools.

Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL HTML 5 CSS 3 Amazon S3 Heroku Rest API's
Kiloba -> Founder

Mexico City, MX. Domains & web hosting. Jul 2012 -> Present

Created the branding, web design and launched a high class domains and web hosting platform for everyone.

PHP HTML 5 CSS 3 cPanel & WHM Api's
Bengala -> Founder

Mexico City, MX. Digital agency. Feb 2012 -> Present

Small digital design and development agency in Mexico City.

We do magic!

Skills

Design & Prototyping
Figma
Sketch
Invision Studio
Illustrator
Photoshop
Code & front end
HTML 5
CSS 3
Sass
Ruby On Rails
Vanilla JS
jQuery
React JS
React Native
PHP
Other important tools
GIT
REST Api's
Heroku
Amazon AWS
cPanel & WHM
Postman
Sublime Editor