I was presented with this nice dichotomy recently, and after having browsed around to get a glimpse of the online debate I must say that I can't take any sides on it. Let me elaborate. Consistency in a design system is what you would see in a system that is…

One of the things that comes with experience in any profession is identifying flaws in things without having to think about “why” it’s flawed. Oftentimes this leads to solving those issues without following any established process. This is quite common in a startup scenario and small organizations. Let’s take the…

As part of the growth of the design team within CEMEX we had made important progress in reaching a basic stage of maturity. Our todo list kept getting shorter. We developed the software application style guide, created a design language around it, and then we created our symbol library. The…

While working at Accenture, I was given the opportunity to lead Visual Design for the new version of the Enterprise Health Management Platform of the Department of Veterans Affairs​​​​​​​. Healthcare software has many intricacies that have to be taken care of. Patient Safety and HIPAA regulations make it pretty difficult…

One of the most gratifying projects that I have made at CEMEX was the creation of a Sketch symbol library. A unique reference for creating visual compositions. The fundamental problem we were having that triggered the creation of it was that the team members were copy/pasting from the Master Style…

This is a chapter of the evolution of the design team at CEMEX to serve the entire company and create digital products for both employees and customers by adhering to the user experience process. A design office is of course constituted by designers mostly, in our case, there are at…

You might find interesting the correlation on gravity and mobile navigation. The thing is that some aspects of nature have to be taken in consideration when developing UI for mobile apps, and gravity is one of them. Well, not exactly gravity, but gravity's implications on how we hold our handhelds. …

The implications of loading data via AJAX are crucial in the way we interact with the user. There was a time when we didn’t care about the feedback a website gave to us, essentially, presenting new content to the user translated to a page jump. We can still say is…