Francisco Crespi

Francisco Crespi

Freelance Product Designer in Spain

About

I help companies solve problems through product design and design management. Also, I am a UI tutor and mentor at CareerFoundry, where I help new designers take their first steps into the design industry. I currently live in Barcelona.

Projects

2024

Web design for Starkware's Cairo. Cairo is also the smart-contract language of Starknet, an L2 blockchain that is verified over Ethereum.

2024

I worked with CareerFoundry's learning designers and editors to write the material for the Intro to Product Design course, which launched on Jan 2024.

2023

Product design explorations for an AI integration on voyager.online

2023

I worked together with two colleagues to create and maintain Decentraland Studios, a platform where creatives working in Decentraland can offer their services and get hired. This project was funded by the Decentraland DAO, to which we submitted a proposal and the community voted. We onboarded over 150+ studios and helped them generate some thousands of $ in revenue. The platform is web-based for desktop and mobile, and I worked as the only designer, working on UX, running usability tests, and designing the UI, along with icons, illustrations, animations, and an intro to the metaverse guide.

2022

Scythe will buy any NFT (ERC721-only) for a very small amount of native token (like 1 Gwei). You send it the NFT and it’ll send you the amount in the same transaction. If you bought or minted the NFT, then it has an established cost basis from a tax point of view. Normally, you would sell it on the market but many NFTs have no market and are essentially worthless. Scythe automatically buys all of those and lets you write them off on your taxes.

I worked on the UI and did some 3D Illustrations.

2022

Web design and project management for Nethermind's website.

2021

The client tasked me to design an interface for users to claim their NODEdrop (a wizard), and a separate interface for NODE hodlers to stake their tokens and manage their participation in liquidity mining pools (a dashboard). Users should be able to stake, withdraw, see and claim their rewards at any time.

Side Projects

Ongoing

Using this side-project to share progress and promotional material for my design practice.

Ongoing

In my free time I create abstract 3D animations and play them live as a VJ in parties or live shows.

Speaking

2019
Bitcoin y UX at Interaction Latinamerica
Medellín, Colombia

Writing

2021

Research paper for TIDE at UPF Barcelona.

Work Experience

2020 — Now
Remote

I help new designers to get into the UX and UI design industry by tutoring and mentoring them in the "UI for UX Designers" that CareerFoundry offers.

2018 — 2020
Argentina

Design management, user research, market research, roadmap and sprint planning, and cross-team collaboration, while doing interaction design, and visual design as an individual contributor

2016 — 2017
Argentina

Interaction design, visual design, user research and analysis for clients in fin-tech and education. Some of my projects are:
Matching Pairs, a game of pair matching for students to play in the classroom with their teachers. I designed the UX flow for both the student (who play the game) and their teachers (who create the pairs with which the students play). The game was thoroughly designed to consider a wide range of screen sizes. I was the only designer in this project.

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