Product Design, Zürich CH

Grüezi, UX strategy that ships, from 0-1 to corporate scale.

Ten years of UX across B2B and B2C, from regulated insurance portals to consumer apps used by 40 million people. My throughline: design that moves business numbers, shipped with startup speed and corporate polish. Currently Growth Lead for Hyatt’s EAME region, from Zürich.

01 Selected work

02 On stage

I speak at design events across Europe, Friends of Figma Barcelona, UX Zurich, and Layers (FOF Portugal), and teach the next generation of designers at LIDEM Barcelona. Talks about personal branding, creativity in the corporate world, and international design careers.

Álvaro presenting his intro slide on stage
On stage, FOF Barcelona
Full audience at Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm
Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm
Álvaro speaking about personal branding
¿Qué es la marca personal?

Full talks & teaching on the about page

03 Shipping solo

After hours, I become my own client: designing, building, and shipping iOS apps end to end, with AI in the loop and analytics keeping me honest. Nothing sharpens design judgment like living with every trade-off you ship.

More experiments at alvaros.app

04 Currently

Growth Lead for Hyatt’s EAME region: running an external agency team and a network of collaborators, aligning stakeholders from brand to engineering. $14M in incremental revenue and member acquisition up 7%, so far. AI-first by conviction, certified in AI design and AI coding, with Claude in my daily workflow. And the discipline behind it all: 10 marathons, 2 IronmansÁlvaro running a marathon, one detail at a time.

05 Elsewhere