Emilio García

UI-UX Designer / Developer

  • CARTO Builder

    CARTO Builder is a web-based drag and drop analysis tool for analysts and business users to discover and predict key insights from location data. I've actively worked in the design and development of Builder as well as its predecessor - Editor. Builder was launched in July 2016 and since then my main areas of work in Builder have been related to improving user onboarding, user experience, and overall design of the product to ensure users are able to make of Builder their go-to analysis tool. CARTO Builder was awarded with a Laus award in the UX category in 2017.

    CARTO - Builder

  • CARTO Website

    CARTO's website is made of three different sites: the commercial website, Learn, and Blog. I've been responsible of the different redesigns of the entire website making sure CARTO's brand and values are reflected in every page; as well as warrantying a coherent user experience throughout the entire website. For the CARTO's website I work with different teams such as Marketing, Research, or Sales.

    CARTO - Website

  • Hackarto's landing page

    Hackarto is an internal hackathon quarterly organized at CARTO. I was responsible of conceptualizing, designing, updating, and developing the webpage.

    Hackarto landing page

  • CARTO Tech Blog

    At CARTO, there is a product/tech blog which is used for product updates/news. I was responsible of conceptualizing, designing and implementing the entire blog as well as its components. The blog is fully responsive and it's completely built in Jekyll.

    CARTO Tech Blog

  • Some visualizations

    I love data and in my spare time I play and teach data visualization and data design. Here you can see some examples of those visualizations.

    Some CARTO Visualizations

If you’d like to chat, feel free to send me an email or ping me on twitter or linkedin.

  • 2017 - currently : Head of Design at CARTO.

    Direct management of a multidisciplinary team of 5 designers & developers.

    Management of the team’s workload, priorities, and projects following a kanban methodology to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and following all the necessary requirements with the maximum quality.

    Interteam projects coordination: Product, Marketing, Solutions, and Sales.

    Development and optimization of design processes.

  • 2014 - 2017 : UI/UX Designer/Developer at CARTO

    CARTO is a location intelligence platform to transform location data into business outcomes.

    Designed and development of all the new features needed to launch the latest version of the product: CARTO Builder, ensuring that the user experience and expected outputs were always at the heart of all the decisions taken.

    Led all the actions that involved working with other departments, specially Marketing and Product.

    Solely designer assigned to develop speci c POCs and solutions needed to met clients’ requirements.

  • 2013 - currently: IED

    IED is the International Higher Educational Network in Design, Fashion, Visual Communication and Management of creative industries. Professor of new technologies, HTMLand CSS and Data Visualization

  • 2013 - 2014: Ironhack

    Taught new technologies, HTML, CSS3.

  • 2011 - 2014: Senior UI Designer/Developer at Tuenti

    Tuenti was one of the most important Social Network and MVNO in Spain, with 11 million of registered users.

    Designed Tuenti’s proprietary bootstrapt based in CSS3, to minimize the number of requests and improve the overall performance.

    Following the OOCSS approach I used classes to abstract modules, which is key to avoid code repetition when a project grows.

  • 2009 - 2011: Design Lead at Vocento

    One of the most important media companies in Spain which owns ABC and 12 local newspapers. I worked coordinating 12 designers.

    In this company my main focus was to do UX and Visual Design.

  • 2008 - 2009: Design and Frontend lead at 20minutos.es

    Visual and frontend lead at this free newspaper

  • 2005 - 2008: Designer and Frontend lead at Prisacom

    Led the Frontend Team within the design team of Prisacom-the company in charge of the digital editions of Prisa group: elpais.com, as.com, etc...

    During this period of time our team won some design awards

    • 2007&2008: Society of news Design. Elpais.com, best non- english website

    • 2006: Eppy. Elpais.es, best overall design

    • 2008: ONA. Elpais.com best nonenglish website