Hello, I’m Albarene.

about me

I’m a senior product designer based in Justin, Texas. With 12 years of experience, I'm a solution-oriented designer that loves creating meaningful experiences through human-centered design. I have deep knowledge of working with enterprise-level software, specializing in human capital management (SaaS). My background in architectural design provides me with the best tools to create virtual spaces full of creativity, aesthetics, technical expertise, and usability. My passion is creating successful and intuitive interfaces through research, and design that positively impact the lives of its users.

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product design & architecture

The professional that I am today is the result of the synergy of two remarkable experiences: my professional background and my training in Architecture School. What I thought at first were two distant disciplines, turned out to be very alike. My architecture training polished me into developing user empathy project after project, and all those long Architecture juries set the foundations for my great communications and presentation skills. Working as a team, understanding what the user needs and how interacts with the space (physical or digital) before establishing a solution, and the design process are also other points of connection between these two. I love how the user experience design allows me to have my final product in a shorter amount of time, the ability to iterate my design after it is built, and to be part of it while learning on the go.

my design process

EMPHATISE

DEFINE

IDEATE

DESIGN

PROTOTYPE

ITERATE

 

experience

Senior Product Designer • Paycom

Jan 2022 - Present

  • Leads design projects across modules and platforms

  • Influences the overall design strategy for the Paycom system

  • Translates design to layout, typography, and visual hierarchy

  • Partners closely with product and development teams to support design strategy

  • Determines product overlap and user experience when using multiple components

  • Guides design process through work with cross-functional teams to ensure vision and execution alignment

  • Points out and proposes solutions to potential conflicts or collisions between different products, platforms, and features

  • Uses design systems and frameworks to create new design styles, patterns, and components

  • Uses research data, design principles, or other objective information to support and promote design decisions and recommendations

  • Create and conduct usability testing, produce research reports from testing with findings and use in designs.

  • Maintains and recommends evolutions of current design styles, patterns and components

  • Considers future goals and product roadmaps when designing a product

  • Designs for the holistic user experience and potential states when designing a product

  • Creates interactive prototypes of various levels

  • Runs usability testing on their prototypes

  • Conducts User interviews with clients

  • Assists in user research, studies and experiments and analyze and socialize findings

  • Leads discussions and collaborations between cross-functional teams

  • Mentors Associate and Product Designers

  • Promotes departments vision and goals across the organization

  • Leads meetings within and outside of design, give presentations to cross-functional groups and senior level leaders

  • Collects data using various collection techniques and design products based on data analysis

  • Proactively learns new tools and proposes new tech solutions

  • Contributes to the culture by advocating and driving execution of design-driven projects and initiatives through-out the entire company

  • Assists with special projects as needed

    • Led design across payroll, taxes, expenses, time & attendance, applicant tracking, and employee self-service modules, impacting thousands of enterprise clients

    • Influenced system-level UX strategy and design standards, ensuring consistency and scalability across multiple products and platforms

    • Partnered with Product and Engineering to deliver data-driven, user-centered solutions that reduced friction and improved adoption

    • Designed and evolved enterprise design systems, components, and interaction patterns to support multiple products and platforms

    • Conducted user research, usability testing, and client interviews; translated insights into actionable design improvements

    • Identified and resolved UX conflicts across features, platforms, and modules, improving workflow efficiency and user satisfaction

    • Mentored Associate and Product Designers, providing guidance on design strategy and execution

    • Presented design solutions and recommendations to cross-functional teams and executive leadership

    • Advocated for design-driven initiatives, introducing new tools and processes to improve efficiency and collaboration

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Senior Product Designer • Intechsol Corp

Jun 2015 - Dec 2021

  • Manage a team of 6 to 10 developers and analysts

  • Collaborating with prospective and existing users and clients to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements

  • Plan and define the scope of every version as part of the whole project and drive his execution

  • Lead scrum meetings and product sprints

  • Manage and define the vision for the development team and create product road maps based on this vision

  • Produce high-quality solutions for every part of the whole process through sketches, prototypes, flow diagrams, wireframes, mockups, storyboards, user stories, personas, and site maps

  • Collaborating in the planning and design of database models

  • Design and visually development dynamic reports using Crystal Reports

  • Managing the product backlog and prioritizing them based on changing requirements

  • Support the developers through the launch process, as well as work alongside the marketing/sales teams to ensure synergy between the product and the company vision

  • Monitor and evaluate the progress of the product at each stage of the process: from design, resources, and budget management, to the certification of the software version before its deployment

  • Measure and analyze user experience research and testing to validate designs, get user feedback, and identify clients needs and opportunities to improve the customer experience

  • Prepare technical documents and end-user guides for every application version

  • Highly proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Axure, and Figma, as well as other design and prototyping tools

UI Designer • Intechsol Corp

May 2014 - May 2015

  • Identify target user groups and carry out interviews or other types of inquiry to help understand user needs

  • Liaising with the development team and end-users to deliver the updates

  • Craft interaction designs, advocating usability and user-centered design principles

  • Maintain a competitive edge against competitor products and industry trends

  • Perform tests on user interface elements such as call-to-action buttons, layouts, target links, landing pages, and banners

 education

BA in Architectural Design

Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

 toolkit

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe XD

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Jira

Figma

Miro

Invision

Sketch

Axure RP

AutoCAD

ArchiCAD

SketchUp

Lucid Chart

Maze

Overflow

Crystal Reports

Balsamiq

Framer

 skills

UI Design

UX Design

Project Management

Agile

Scrum

User Reasearch

User Empathy

Wireframing

Prototyping

Interaction Design

HTML

CSS

Bootstrap

Kendo UI

SQL

Collaboration

Testing

Visual Communication

Budgeting and Planning

Team Leadership