I find the problem, then I design the fix.

Fifteen years · Agency, in-house, product · 100+ sites shipped

Alfonso Barreiro, Product Designer in Portland, Oregon.

Work

Three controls I keep wanting Spotify to add.

The shelf 600M+ Spotify users see daily, with no controls. Pin · Remove · Pause, grounded in 200+ user posts.

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Built the trip planner around duration, not dates.

Homepage as an editorial cover. Discovery through a globe and curated cards.

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Pivoted from e-commerce to editorial in week 3.

Cost: the storefront I'd already designed. Diagnostic-first resource for men over 40, live since April. 86% of visitors finish the assessment.

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Alfonso Barreiro outdoors in Portland, hands in jacket pockets, mid-conversation.

Research, decide, design, and build.

I learned BASIC from a magazine, typing it line by line. I built my first website as a Rush fan site that probably broke every design rule that existed. I’m still doing the same thing: building things I actually want to use.

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