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Real product gets decided in the uncomfortable conversations: when what the user wants, what the business needs, and what engineering can build don't line up. That disagreement is where I work.
About
Christian Del Barco.
A Senior Product Designer who also writes the code he designs.
I've spent 7+ years leading design in SaaS, B2B platforms, and marketplaces for US and Latin American markets. I do UX strategy, build design systems, and write frontend. The point is making those three work together instead of against each other.
I write production code in React and JavaScript when it speeds up delivery. It's not to replace engineering; it's so less time passes between seeing a problem and seeing it solved in production.
Based inSantiago, Chile · GMT-3
LanguagesSpanish · Professional English
SetupRemote · LATAM & US
7+
Years in the field
4
Industries served
3
Countries (CL, PE, US)
12+
Engineers I've worked with
Philosophy · 01
What I believe.
Five statements on how I understand this craft. More than a process, they're formed opinions. If you don't share one of them, there's a fair chance we wouldn't be a good fit working together.
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A design system isn't a component library: it's an agreement between design and engineering on how things get built. And an agreement that only lives in Figma doesn't keep itself.
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I believe that in 2026 a Product Designer who can't write code is at a disadvantage. Not because they have to do engineering's job, but because without knowing the material they work with, many of their decisions end up being guesswork.
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A decision without its trade-off written down somewhere isn't a decision, it's a preference. And preferences don't hold up as the team grows.
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AI inside a product only works if the person can see where the suggestion came from. When they don't understand the why, they stop trusting it, and end up going back to doing it by hand.
Career · 02
Seven years crossing design and engineering.
From a digital agency to a multi-sided marketplace, by way of construction tech. Each stage taught me something different: to deliver fast, to handle complex operations, and to work at enterprise scale.
Apr 2022
Apr 2022 — Feb 2026
Design Lead / UX Engineer
Wolf Inc. · Staffing marketplace (web & mobile) · US market · Remote from Chile
- Led UX/UI design as the sole Product Designer of a multi-sided marketplace used by 5,000 to 20,000 people and 100+ staffing companies in the United States.
- Designed and launched the Job Seekers mobile app, from zero to production in 2022. It became one of the strongest pieces of the commercial pitch.
- Built the design system from nothing to 100+ reusable components, and it became the quality reference engineering worked against.
ReactJavaScriptFigmaDesign Tokens
Nov 2019
Nov 2019 — Sep 2021
Product Designer + Head of Marketing
IPSUM → Outbuild · Construction-tech SaaS · Chile and Latin America
- Joined right after a one-million-dollar funding round to design ProPlanner, a SaaS used by 40+ contractors across 8 Latin American countries.
- Hired for marketing and ended up splitting my time between product and brand, with a team of 5 engineers: I went from designer to Head of Marketing and Product Designer.
- Designed the product's core features —Gantt charts, scheduling, and resource planning— built to be used on real construction sites.
FigmaAdobe Creative SuiteBrand Systems
Oct 2018
Oct 2018 — Nov 2019
Digital Graphic Designer
LFI Digital Agency · Digital agency · Santiago, Chile
- Designed digital, brand, and print pieces for 10+ brands across banking, government, education, healthcare, energy, and retail — among them Scotiabank, Walmart Chile, Clínica Alemana, and Marca Chile.
- For Scotiabank, designed close to 90% of the signage and print material for their corporate tower, plus much of their internal communication.
- Had my first real contact with HTML and CSS building pieces for the web — the first bridge toward the designer-and-developer profile I built afterward.
Adobe Creative SuiteHTMLCSS
Skills · 03
What I can do.
More than a complete list, it's what I use day to day. If you're looking for a Senior Product Designer who also writes code, this is what I bring to the table.
Design
Product designUX strategyUI designInformation architectureUser researchPrototypingAccessibility (WCAG)Journey mapping
Design systems
Design tokensComponent librariesTheming & re-skinDesign-to-code workflowsVariable fontsDocumentation in code
AI / Product intelligence
AI-driven UX patternsConfidence scoring & transparencyMulti-modal input design (voice · NLP · structured)Human-in-the-loop workflowsPrompt design for productsBulk approve & threshold patternsTrust & accountability in AI
Engineering
JavaScript (ES6+)ReactHTMLCSSGitResponsive designFrontend implementation
Product
Product discoveryAgile / ScrumCross-functional collabDesign QAUser testingTrade-off framing
Marketing & brand
Brand strategyMarketing positioningLanding page designEmail marketingSocial media designCampaign systemsUX & marketing copyProduct-marketing alignment
Tools
Figma (advanced)FigJamAdobe Creative SuiteCursorNotionLinearGitHub
The formal stuff · 04
Education, languages, and résumé.
Education
Bachelor's in Digital and Multimedia Communication
Universidad del Pacífico, Chile · 2017
Frontend Development Program
Coderhouse · React, Vue.js, Node.js, JavaScript
Languages
Spanish · Native
English · Advanced / Professional
Setup
Remote · LATAM & US
Shall we talk?
If what you read resonates, get in touch.
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