I'm Ricardo — a product designer who works close to decision-makers, takes on the problems that are hard to scope, and writes the code when it matters. Today I design internal tools for Talent Systems at Shopify. Before that, years as a Staff Marketing UX Designer on shopify.com and developer surfaces.
How I work now
AI runs through every phase. I use Claude and Cursor to map product logic, surface edge cases, and pressure-test direction before committing; Figma to make the options concrete and hold the system together; and the production codebase to prototype with real data, so stakeholders react to a working product instead of a mock. I've built agents, MCP servers, and evaluation loops to make that workflow reliable rather than novel.