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— WELCOME

Hola, my name is María Paz.







I am a product design engineer with an MA in interaction design  & Co-founder of  Estudio Racimo.



I am a creative professional with a background in Product Design Engineering and a MA in Interaction Design. I was recently awarded by the National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts by the Chilean government to develop TOI, which is a product that aims to develop social-emotional skills in children, youth and adults in the context of therapy or home.

I have 11 years of experience in service and digital product design. I have lived the reality of a UX agency, experienced how Prezi.com went from thousands to millions of users and lived between the worlds of science and design at the R&D centre of Telefonica and in a US-based microbial genomics company. I'm a co-founder and partner at Estudio Racimo, where I developed my business and management skills. I have strong experience applying design processes and agile methodologies to product development.

I currently live in Melbourne, Australia and open to be part of a great product team. 



— 2018 - 2022


PROJECT MANAGER & DESIGN CONSULTANT




Design consultancy for public and private sector




At Estudio Racimo I developed my skills to lead design and user research projects that helped the companies and institutions to create better services for their clients and citizens.





















— 2017 - 2018


PRODUCT DESIGN LEAD




From the science of the microbiome to product design for patients and doctors.






At uBiome my role was to lead the efforts of product design and research for clinical products that help to shape the way uBiome’s clients and healthcare providers experience the service, while also providing new experiences that are envisioned for the complexity of the company services.
























— 2016 & 2O17


USER EXPERIENCE LEAD & USER RESEARCHER FOR SMARTCITIES



Foundational Research for R&D projects and User Interface design for SmartCities projects initiatives





I started as a UX Researcher for Smart Cities, where I led the field research, instrument and visual design for the initiatives we had in the team. Then I had a second role where I led the UX team from other initiatives to have a common vision, methodologies and processes of the discipline in the context of IoT. 









































































— 2014 & 2O16


USER EXPERIENCE STRATEGIST


User experience and interaction design for diversity of financial and governmental services in Chile





At Medible I was able to mix my analytic and conceptual abilities applied to strategic design and to digital products. Here I participated in qualitative and quantitative studies in order to reveal needs, expectations and behaviors of the users.




















— 2011 & 2O13
INTERACTION DESIGNER 

Interaction Designer — Prezi editor and search engine






At Prezi I was able to develop my skills in UI and UX working very close to researchers, developers and data scientists and designers, of course, all world-class talented crazy people from all over the world. Sometimes I was doing QA helping the engineers with user scenarios and prioritizing bugs. It was very helpful to understand how teams work organically to achieve their semester goals, in a very adaptive and resilient way.









































































— 2011 

INTERACTION DESIGN INTERN 

Open Mirror for Digital Habits




My role as an interaction design intern was to define interactions, code, product design and build the first prototypes for Open Mirror. An open source interactive mirror that can be opened and interact with defining a different way of listening to music. During Salone del Mobile 2014 Digital Habits presents it in the new bluetooth version.