Miguel Fernandez
VP, Head of Design at Slack
- Role
- VP, Head of Design at Slack
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Miguel Fernandez
Design leader for Slack, responsible for the end-to-end customer experience across desktop and mobile. Leading a multidisciplinary organization spanning Product Design, Content Design & Strategy, Design Operations, and Design Engineering. Overseeing core messaging, productivity, AI, platform, admin & trust, growth, design systems, accessibility, and the foundational architecture that powers how millions of people work.Formerly Design Director for Airbnb Experiences leading a multi-disciplinary human-centered team inclusive of research, content and experience design, with the goal of empowering the new wave of entrepreneurs providing experiences that connect people through their passions, helping them fulfill their purpose while providing prosperity. Previously, Head of Design for Jet.com, a retail startup that was acquired by Walmart for $3.3billion. I led user experience, creative and prototyping and was a co-founder of the Jet Innovation Lab. Also lead design for Amazon’s emerging verticals at Quidsi.com. Began my career at award winning agencies in my hometown Colombia, leading creative and user experience for one of them, Zemoga. Specialties: Product Strategy and Design, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Information Architecture, Experience Design, Service Design, Motion Design, Team Building, Creative Leadership, Design management
Experience
VP, Head of Design
Jan 2025 — Present
Skills
- User Experience
- Content Strategy
- Visual Design
- Html
- Web Analytics
- Creative Direction
- Usability
- Axure
- Omnigraffle
- Information Architecture
- Mobile Devices
- Mobile
- User Interface
- Html5
- Human Computer Interaction
- User Experience Design
- Navigation Design
- E-Commerce
- Prototyping
- Interaction Design
- Accessibility
- Html 5
- Wire Framing
- Web Standards
- Card Sorting
- Css
- Actionscript
- User-Centered Design
- Navigation
- Digital Strategy
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- Contextual Inquiry
- Css3
- Wireframes
- User Interface Design
- Mobile Applications
- Front-End
- Jquery
- Persona
- Experience Design
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