♥ DESIGNING WITH LOVE IN THE BAY AREA
VANESSA CUEVAS
Product Designer + Creative Technologist
Designing at scale for communities that deserve more than the default experience.
Shipped end-to-end across 27M members: co-authoring roadmaps, taking products from brief to production, and using AI to explore new velocities for design and delivery.
Creative and experimental work exhibited across venues in San Francisco and beyond, spanning AR and live coding.
UX · Product Design
Creative Technology
PERSONALIZATION
Objective
Member portal organized around each member's situation, not the system's structure
Approach
Dashboard redesign surfacing relevant content by plan type and behavior across 27M members
PREMIUM PAYMENTS
Objective
Payment flow redesigned within a compliance-driven migration to a third-party processor
Approach
Embedded vendor integration cohesively into the existing design system while meeting WCAG requirements
EMPATHAR.COM
Objective
Real-time emotion detection overlaid in AR, browser-native and on-device
Approach
On-device ML via WebXR — no server, no upload, camera stays local
STRUDELPOETICS.LIVE
Objective
Live coding environment for generative music and computational poetry
Approach
Open source fork of Strudel with a custom visual and interaction layer