Melvin Alvarez
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Melvin Alvarez

Designer

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3 years ago

About

I'm a Product Designer with a background in Visual Design and code.

Projects

2021
Quadratic Trust at Gitcoin

Quadratic Trust is a challenge where members of the community can vote to support you and your work - but instead of supporting you with money, like with Quadratic Funding, they support you with their social capital in the community.

2021

A site where people can get paid to create Sybil-resistant identities, hardening Sybil-resistant identity systems by creating a known price of forgery.

Awards

2015
Design for Social Impact from Core77

Student Runner Up

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Product Designer at Design—Craft Club
  • MVPs, zero-to-one digital product design for early-stage startups working on new technologies.

  • Facilitating research, assumptions validation, and presenting key insights and solutions to stakeholders.

2021 — 2023
  • Web3 enterprise marketplace and community management platform design

  • Designed white-label check out and plug-ang-play secondary market templates

  • Prototyping Web3 integration use-cases for big ticket clients

2019 — 2021
  • User research, interview synthesis for Gitcoin Grants

  • Prototyping new product features for testing

  • Designed interactive site-maps to aid stakeholders in assessing growth opportunities

2017 — 2019
Designer at Ethereum
  • Designed 2 decentralized, peer-to-peer ERC-20 token exchange platforms

  • Design projects for status.im's sticker market

  • vac.dev branding, landing page design

  • Landing page design for status.im ambassador program

  • Marketing design support for status.im

  • DEX UI design, ICO white papers, landing pages for projects in the Ethereum ecosystem

2016 — 2019
Visual / UX Designer at Creative Circle
San Francisco, CA

Contract design work for startups and established brands

  • integrating with in-house teams to provide Visual + UX Design aid for zero-to-one greenfield initiatives

  • designed and prototyped internal tooling solutions

  • web pages, marketing collaterals (screen + print)

  • design production for campaigns

2015 — 2016
San Francisco
  • Design rebrand from Switch Communications to Dialpad

  • refactored design files from Illustrator to Sketch

  • Prototyping product features in HTML, CSS, jQuery for testing

  • Marketing design (white papers, case studies, illustrations)

Education

Web and New Media at Academy of Art University
San Francisco, CA
Multimedia Arts at Asia Pacific College
Philippines

Contact

Figma
GitHub
Twitter