Community
Sharing Knowledge & Building Community
10+ years of public speaking, workshops, and mentoring the next generation of designers
01. Overview
Design advocacy beyond the day job
Design advocacy is about more than sharing knowledge—it’s about building a stronger design community. Through speaking, workshops, and mentoring, I’ve worked to inspire designers to push their craft forward.
This ongoing effort spans
conferences, meetups, online sessions, and 1:1 mentoring
—all aimed at elevating design practice and advocating for design’s strategic value in organizations.
Inspire designers to push their craft forward
Share practical knowledge from real-world experience
Mentor emerging designers in their careers
Advocate for design’s strategic value
02. Community Impact
Contributions over the years
10+ Talks
- Google I/O Extended Guatemala City
- Expo Marketing Guatemala
- Campus Tec Guatemala
15+ Workshops
- UX Masterclass (online)
- Prototyping at Campus Tec Guatemala
- Software design courses — own academy
50+ Mentees
- Career guidance and coaching
- Portfolio reviews
- Job search support
30K+ Community
- 29K+ followers across social media platforms
- 1,200+ members in Friends of Figma Guatemala — a Spanish-speaking LATAM design community on Discord and Instagram
03. Speaking Topics
Areas of focus and expertise
Design Leadership
Navigating the transition from IC to leadership and building high-performing teams.
Design Systems
Building, scaling, and governing design systems in enterprise environments.
Education & Teaching
Structured curricula covering design thinking, journey mapping, and prototyping — delivered through the UX Masterclass and own academy.
Product Design in LATAM
The state and future of product design in the region — covering software design maturity, tooling, and raising professional standards.
04. Workshop Format
Hands-on learning that sticks
Practical Exercises
Workshops focus on practical exercises that participants can apply immediately to their work. Theory is kept minimal—the goal is learning by doing.
Real-World Cases
Using actual project examples to illustrate concepts and challenges. Participants work through scenarios based on real problems.
Interactive group activities
Open dialogue and Q&A
Take-home resources
Follow-up support
05. Key Learnings
What Resonates
- Clarity is key—distill complex ideas into actionable insights
Stories connect—real project stories resonate more than abstract principles
Vulnerability builds trust—sharing failures as well as successes
Give generously—the more you share, the more the community gives back
What I’ve Learned
- Every audience is different—adapt on the fly
- Questions often reveal more than the prepared content
- Follow-up matters as much as the event itself
- Building community takes consistent, long-term effort
“Teaching is the best way to learn—every talk and workshop has taught me as much as my audience.”
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