FERNANDO RUIZ

Most products work.
The ones that win feel
like they belong.

I'm Fernando, Product Designer and AI Builder. I work with founders, teams, and agencies on the gap between it functions and it feels inevitable. That's where retention, trust, and growth actually live.

“They came back.”

4× activation

Users stopped closing the app in 45 seconds. The fix lived under the UI. We found it together with engineering.

WTFast

“It felt real enough to fund.”

€250k seed

The redesigned MVP became the pitch. Investors funded what they could see actually working.

United Gamers

“It shipped without a translator.”

−30% dev time

Engineers stopped guessing what designs meant. The system spoke for itself.

Digital Daylight

Three products that didn't feel like home, until they did.

None of these were surface-level design problems. Each one needed somebody close enough to the user, the engineer, and the business to see what was actually breaking.

SaaS • Growth • Behavioral research

WTFast

The product was quietly lying to its users. Design didn't fix that. Diagnosing it did.

4× activation. 3× revenue. The CTO told me design wasn't the problem. That's why it worked.

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Live ops • Game design • Community

Party Parrot World

A social game where socializing was hard. The Discord told us before the metrics did.

Players stopped complaining about the chat. They started chatting like they always had.

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MVP • Product strategy • Visual identity

United Gamers

Founders who knew the science, missed the player. I'd been the player for five years.

€250k seed. The pitch worked because the product finally did.

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The Lab

I don't wait for engineering to validate ideas. I build with AI: products of my own, prototypes for clients, and the workflows other product designers use to do the same.

PideFast

An end-to-end product for WhatsApp sales.

Next.js, Hugo, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase

Design Binders

A historical archive of design styles and UI patterns.

Hugo, HTML, CSS

UX Wiki

Curated resources and tools for UX designers.

Hugo, HTML, CSS

UX Nodes

My web design studio, landing pages and product sites shipped fast with AI-driven workflows.

Next.js, TypeScript, SQL

ArturoMed

A medical scheduling SaaS built with AI for a doctor with 1.7M TikTok followers. Survived a cryptominer attack on launch night.

Next.js, Supabase, Claude Code, Hetzner

The UX Job Board

Automated aggregator for specialized design roles.

Nuxt

I also teach this.

The designers who show up to my workshops come from teams at MercadoLibre, EY, Banco Guayaquil, and other companies across LATAM, including industries that don't usually have a design team. The pattern repeats: once they've built something real with AI, they stop asking permission to do it again.

Working with Fernando gave me vibe coding foundations I didn't have before. He explains everything clearly and makes sure you actually learn it. I'm taking this into both client work and personal projects.
Irving Hernandez
Irving Hernandez
UX Design Lead, MercadoLibre
As a designer I'd always avoided the technical side. Fernando teaches GitHub and how to actually run an AI-built product without making it overwhelming. With Claude Code as a real dev copilot, I now have the tools to ship my own ideas without depending on anyone.
Miguel Méndez
Miguel Méndez
Product Designer, Dreamable
Fernando goes straight to the point. You build real products, no excess theory, just the day-to-day calls that actually matter. If you want to go from idea to MVP without going in circles, this is worth it.
Miguel Noboa
Miguel Noboa
UX Researcher, Banco Guayaquil
I don't know how to code, and Fernando proved that's not a blocker for building with AI. He doesn't just hand you steps. He explains the foundations and why they matter. That's the difference between executing and actually understanding what you're building.
Natasha Flores
Natasha Flores
UX Designer, GeekyMotors
Exceeded my expectations. We worked step-by-step on real projects, and shipped a custom Trello clone to production. Hands-on: shared screens, problems solved live. If you want to apply AI to product design, Fernando gives you the concrete leap.
Cristobal Lemoine
Cristobal Lemoine
Project Lead, EY

Behind the work

I came to product design through architecture, content creation, and marketing. Three different ways of seeing how things hold together.

Architecture taught me systems. Content taught me audiences. Marketing taught me what a business actually pays for. That's the lens behind every product I touch.

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