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Magalí Olmedo
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Product Designer · UI & Design Systems

Product Designer ·
UI & Design Systems

I design digital products that turn each visual identity into simple, end-to-end solutions, balancing what the product needs with what the people using it need.

I specialize in UI, design systems, and the governance that keeps them consistent as each product scales.

AI is part of my day-to-day work. I've built my own skills and agents to streamline how I design and get things done.

6+ Years designing Fintech, IoT & SaaS
3 Design systems Built & governed
40% Less friction Measured in usability testing
+50% Component reuse Scalable design system
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Selected work

Smart thermostatIoT

I designed the embedded interface of a thermostat that controls the climate of homes, residences, hotels and entire shopping centres across Europe and North America, in 11 languages.

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CencopayFintechMobile appDesign systems

As the project's sole UX/UI designer, I led a new mobile app from research to developer handoff: a digital bank in Latin American fintech.

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One foundation for a whole ecosystemDesign system · Multi-platform

Together with my UX/UI team, I created a design system that unifies our company's whole ecosystem: 2 mobile apps (B2B and B2C), 3 websites and 2 thermostats with embedded interfaces.

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How I work

AI as infrastructure, not a feature

AI, especially Claude, is part of how I work every day. I build my own skills for anything I do often: migrating legacy components, auditing variables, running Figma migrations, exploring ideas and building sites straight from my design systems.

Specs before Figma

Engineering docs, product requirements, hardware constraints: I read all of it and talk to the people behind it before I open Figma. With embedded and multi-platform interfaces especially, understanding what you're designing for is the difference between good UI and UI that breaks in production.

Close to development, clean handoff

I care about delivery as much as design. I get involved early, while I'm still in Figma, thinking about implementation, and I stay close to development until it ships. That keeps handoff simple and unambiguous. I also test with real content in every language, never filler, so nothing breaks in translation. A design isn't done when it looks good. It's done when development can build it and it ships exactly as intended.

Background

I tend to join companies at turning points, usually mid-rebrand. My graphic design background is what makes that work: I can take a brand identity and bring it to life inside a digital product. I've done it twice: for a B2C credit card and digital account, and inside a multinational with complex B2B and B2C products across Europe and the Americas. To me, brand guidelines and design systems aren't two separate worlds. Together they're what keeps a product coherent.

2025–present
  • Interface for a new thermostat generation, from concept to developer handoff, validated on the real hardware.
  • Consistency across a multi-library design system in Figma: tokens, governance and migrations.
  • Figma migrations and audits automated with my own Claude skills.
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2022–2025
  • Mobile wallet for iOS and Android: onboarding, payments, credit and money management, plus swipe-to-pay for QR payments.
  • 40% less interaction friction, found and fixed through usability testing.
  • +50% component reuse with a scalable design system for the mobile app.
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2021–2022
  • A consistent visual identity across the digital product and marketing.
  • Updated brand guidelines and interface assets.
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2020–2021
  • Responsive UI components and layouts for a SaaS platform.
  • 30% less redesign time thanks to pixel-perfect specs.
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About

I'm from Argentina and moved to Málaga with my partner so we could both keep growing, in our own fields and together. He's a software engineer, so design and dev talk follows us home. We brought our two rabbits from Buenos Aires, because they're family. I love animals; it's one of the reasons I've been vegetarian for nine years.

Away from screens, I'm happiest outdoors, somewhere between the beach and the mountains, usually chasing something that challenges me, like diving or hiking. Dance shaped me as a kid and taught me discipline; these days I put that consistency into the gym and into always getting better at what I do.

I'm drawn to photography, music and art, anything visual with an idea behind it. That's what drives me at work, too.

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