[ about me ]
I make complex enterprise software feel obvious.

Albarene Basilis
I’m a Senior Product Designer with 12+ years specializing in HR and workforce tech, spanning payroll, onboarding, and employee self service. At Paycom and Intechsol, I've often been the sole designer on large-scale platforms, owning everything from user research to design systems and final engineering handoff.
How I Work
Research before pixels
I talk to the payroll admin, the new hire, and the manager before deciding what a screen should do.
Systems over one-offs
I build scalable design systems so products remain intuitive long after their initial release.
Design that survives engineering
I think in data models and edge cases so developers don’t have to guess how a solution holds together from the UI down to the database field.
[ my story ]
I design systems
that feel inevitable.
My career started in Puerto Rico, where I spent two years growing from a junior designer into the person a fast-moving development team trusted to own an entire product direction. Being embedded in a small, fast-moving team with real ownership and real consequences shaped everything about how I work today.
From there, I spent 6 more years at Intechsol as the sole designer on a team of 8 developers, building an entire enterprise HR platform from the ground up. Not just a feature here or there, the whole ecosystem: recruiting, human resources, payroll, time and attendance, taxes, learning, and employee self-service. Over six years of continuous delivery, I oversaw a live client migration and built a design system documented specifically for engineers.
At Paycom, I’ve continued that work at a larger scale, redesigning high-stakes payroll workflows where precision isn't optional because errors have real consequences for real people's paychecks.
[ experience ]
Experience & Education
Bringing years of experience in crafting innovative and user-focused digital designs.


Paycom • Grapevine, TX
Senior Product Designer
Owning end-to-end UX design for core enterprise payroll and HR modules at scale. Spearheaded the redesign of the Payroll Dashboard and Expenses Module, focusing on high-stakes, multi-user workflows where data integrity and precision are non-negotiable.
2022 - 2026
Intechsol • Remote
Senior Product Designer
Sole designer embedded with a team of 8 developers across a 5-year initiative to design and build a full enterprise HR platform. Led IA, interaction design, visual design, design system, and stakeholder presentations across 7 product modules. Conceptualized and designed the Company Handbook Builder (CHB) and the Create Your Own Report (CYOR) feature.
2014 - 2022
Intechsol
UI/UX Designer
Conducted user research, designed interaction solutions, and performed usability testing. Supported product demos and contributed to the company rebranding initiative.
2013 - 2014
Universidad Politecnica de Puerto Rico
Bachelor of Architecture
Architecture and UX share the same core discipline: designing environments that serve human behavior. Architects shape physical spaces; UX designers shape digital ones. The skills transfer almost directly, understanding how people navigate a space, structuring information so users never feel lost, prototyping before building, working within systems and standards. I treat every screen like a room. That instinct came from five years of architecture school, not a design bootcamp.
/education
[ skills and tools ]
Skills + Tools
Bringing years of experience in crafting innovative and user-focused digital designs.
design practice
- End-to-end product design
- Complex information architecture
- Interaction & multi-user systems
- Design systems & tokenization
- Rapid prototyping & wireframing
- Service blueprinting & workflows
- Enterprise scalability
research + strategy
- User interviews & admin workflows
- High-stakes usability testing
- Enterprise competitive analysis
- Pain point discovery & mapping
- Design strategy & roadmapping
- Cross-functional stakeholder alignment
- Workshop facilitation
tools + tech
- Figma · FigJam
- Sketch · Adobe XD
- Framer · Webflow
- Maze · UserTesting
- Engineering Handoff (Data models)
- HTML · CSS · Bootstrap
- Jira · Agile / Scrum