Chrisevolve

Chrisevolve

strategic thinking · product builder · ai assisted

Chris Santana
Chris · Miami
sr product designer
✦6+ years · miami
en / es
ai-native ux
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— Selected work · 2020 — 2026 —

Things I've shipped.

four projects.
one design hand. ↓
PayCargo · Sr Product Designer (lead)

Platform rebuild

Redesigned the payment platform used by 10k+ freight forwarders — rebuilt vendor discovery, transaction flow, and settlement UX from the ground up.

+22%
payment conversion
FintechPlatformDesign System
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Togal AI · Product Designer

AI takeoff tool

Designed the interface for the first AI-powered construction takeoff tool. Draw a floor plan, Togal measures it.

10×
faster than manual
AIConstructionTech0→1
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PawCare · Solo design + build · Side project

Pet care companion

A friendly mobile-first companion app for pet parents — track care routines, vet visits, and meds in one calm flow. Vibe-coded end to end: I designed it, prompted it into existence, and shipped it solo.

0→1
designed + vibe-coded solo
Vibe codedMobile0→1Wellness
Coming soon — case study in progress
— How I work —

Two processes, one brain.

I design like a product designer — user-first, metric-driven, cut-fast. And I ship like an AI-native operator — Claude as thought partner, code as the fastest prototype, voice as the next frontier.

◆ the craft

Design process.

01

Listen, then frame

Talk to users, sales, support — anyone closest to the pain. Write the problem in one sentence before I draw anything.

02

Sketch wide, cut fast

Generate 5–10 directions on paper or as wireframes. Kill 80% in the first review. Defend what survives.

03

Hi-fi with real data

Prototype in Figma with actual content and edge cases. No "Lorem ipsum" — every piece of text is real.

04

Ship, measure, iterate

Launch behind a flag, watch the metric, listen to the complaints. Most designs are wrong on v1 — that's fine.

✦ the advantage

AI workflow.

01

Claude as thought partner

Pair-thinking on product strategy, critique on drafts, rubber-ducking tough flows. Not as an answer machine — as a second brain.

02

Figma Make + Claude Design

Generate first-pass layouts from prompts, iterate with real tokens. Fastest way from idea to something I can react to.

03

Claude Code for the build

When I need a real prototype I skip Figma and prototype in code directly. Cursor + Claude Code = hi-fi in hours.

04

Voice Agents (next)

Currently exploring voice-first interfaces and agents. Spoken UX has different constraints than visual — different craft.

— The stack · what's in rotation —

Tools of the trade.

the ones i actually open
every day ↓
Figma
Daily driver — wireframes, hi-fi, systems, handoff.
design
Figma Makehot ✦
First-pass layouts from prompts. Fastest idea → artifact.
ai design
Claude.ai
Thought partner, critique, writing, research.
ai thinking
Claude Codehot ✦
Hi-fi prototypes in code — skip Figma when it's faster.
ai build
Cursor
Primary code editor. Tab-complete my brain.
build
GitHub
Version control + reading production code before I design it.
code
Vercel
Ship prototypes live in minutes. No backend drama.
deploy
Supabase
Postgres + auth + storage when prototypes need a real backend.
backend
Storybook
Component playground + design system spec.
systems
Maze
Remote usability tests — task success, heatmaps, SUS scores.
research
Amplitude
Watch the metric after launch. Disprove my own designs.
measure
* list updates as the stack evolves · last check: apr '26

Currently.

what's on my desk
this week ↓
✦ currently · freelancing
Open for Q3 projects
AI-native product design, 0→1, design systems. Hourly or retainer.
✦ currently · reading
Hooked — Nir Eyal
The habit-formation playbook. Again. Still chewing on the investment phase.
✦ currently · listening
Lex Fridman · Dario Amodei
Long-form on alignment, Claude, and what "AI-native" actually means.
— got a project? —
hello@chrisevolve.com
Chrisevolve
est. 2017 · miami · en / es
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Elsewhere
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Set in IvyPresto Display, Fraunces, Inter Tight, JetBrains Mono, and Caveat.

Designed in Figma, built in Claude Code, deployed on Vercel.

Paper textures by staying up too late.
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