Gil Alvaro

Led the design and delivery of intuitive, accessible, and scalable digital experiences for high-profile public sector platforms, including internal systems and citizen-facing services. Played a pivotal role in crafting user-centric interfaces compliant with WCAG accessibility standards, while ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and stakeholder objectives.

Provided strategic guidance on design direction, advised on system-wide UI consistency, and drove the evolution of design systems to support long-term scalability. Acted as a key liaison between design, development, and stakeholder teams, translating complex requirements into elegant, functional solutions. Mentored junior designers, facilitated cross-disciplinary workshops, and championed best practices in accessibility, responsiveness, and interaction design. Delivered high-impact design outcomes under Agile frameworks, consistently meeting tight deadlines and contributing to the success of mission-critical government services.

As Developer helped the development teams, I initially, developed the front-end web page by using HTML5, jQuery, and SCSS with BEM naming convection, a year later started on ReactJS using Material UI Library, JSS, and Styled Components.
◦ Implemented Page Optimization techniques for web pages using LightHouse and made sure the CSS Specificity was in the account.
◦ Optimized web content accessibility and tested it on all modern web browsers.
◦ Finesse the front-end code and ensure the assets were optimized and high-quality/performance and make sure the product would look like the H.F. Mockups.
◦ Worked with browser compatibility issues.
◦ Created the bridge between developers and designers, where developers would have all the assets needed to develop the UI, using storybook and Zeplin, there was only need to share the mockups with the devs in there they would have the links to everything they need, such icons, colours palette variables, components names and their import codes and much more.

As the Lead Product Designer, I was responsible for:
◦ Brand consistency over company departments (UI, Internal Documents/Presentations, Social, Emails, Website,
Illustrations, and Icons).
◦ Mentored team members.
◦ Performed multiple assignments under pressure and consistently met deadlines given.
◦ Worked with Marketing Team and provided the necessary material so they could sell the product.
As UX/UI worked directly with stakeholders to establish:
◦ Heuristic Analysis
◦ Contextual Inquiries
◦ Workshops: Research, Ideation, and Innovation.
◦ Personas
◦ User Stories
◦ User Journey Maps
◦ Storyboards
◦ Wireframes and High-Fidelity Mockups
◦ Functional Prototyping
◦ Run AB Testing over the new ideas and establish the UX/UI with the most efficient result.
◦ Development analysis, examined with the team of developers to try to understand the limitations in terms of
performance and efficiency of the UI/UX.
◦ Develop UI design specs as well UI Styleguide that allowed consistency and fast paste project development,
across a multi-disciplinary team through all phases of the project, using Figma, Zeplin, and Storybook.
◦ Documented UI components.
◦ Used Atomic Design methodology in the Styleguide.

Responsible for all design materials such as Branding, Marketing, and UX/UI Design of the Gnatta website and Gnatta web app.
Creation of branding assets including Print, Brochures & Newsletters, Logos & Business Cards, Posters & Post Cards, Stationery, Guidelines, Photography, Creation of Mockups.
Design of marketing assets such as Website Mockups, Video Editing and Social Media.
In UX/UI field, was responsible for the creation of Wireframing, Prototyping, Animation/Motion Graphics in Adobe XD, Figma, and Zeplin. Used Agile methodology and helped to create Front end Webpages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Responsible for all design materials such as Branding, Marketing, and UX/UI Design of the FM Outsource website and their web app.
Creation of branding assets including Print, Brochures & Newsletters, Logos & Business Cards, Posters & Post Cards, Stationery, Guidelines, Photography, Creation of Mockups.
Design of marketing assets such as Website Mockups, Video Editing and Social Media.
In UX/UI field, was responsible for the creation of Wireframing, Prototyping, Animation/Motion Graphics in Adobe XD, Figma, and Zeplin. Used Agile methodology and helped to create Front end Webpages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Creation of Print and Digital Social Marketing material, Brochures & Newsletters, Logos & Business Cards, Posters & Post Cards, Stationery, Guidelines, Photography & Creation of Mockups.

As UI Designer, I helped in the creation of an interactive display for kids. A social experiment that showed the toddlers and their social integration.