Nicolas Zubia

Nicolas Zubia

UX & UI designer at LaunchPad Lab — user-centered products across health, fintech, and e-commerce. 13+ years from creative direction and editorial platforms to app design; teaching usability and mentoring designers.

Experience

  1. LaunchPad Lab

    UX & UI designer

    Health apps (desktop & mobile) — research, user interviews, usability testing, UI, interaction design, and accessibility; collaboration with clinical and industry stakeholders. E-commerce and retail web — responsive UI, interactive prototypes, design systems, stakeholder reviews. Additional projects: crypto / tax product UI and systems, working closely with engineering.

  2. Caravana

    Founder

    Studio helping organizations strengthen product design and build a customer-centered mindset. Buenos Aires.

  3. Globant

    UX & UI designer

    Banking and fintech apps; award-winning pharma industry app. Tutor in Globant Design Center; interviewer for design hires; mentor for design studio roles; pre-sales proposals and client presentations. Earlier focus included native banking apps — high-fidelity UI, prototypes, and validation with clients and engineering.

  4. Coderhouse

    UX & UI professor

    Taught 300+ students from many countries through the full UX journey alongside the Coderhouse team. Buenos Aires.

  5. Infobae

    UX & UI designer

    Led UX/UI for e-commerce products (e.g. Bajalibros, Leamos, Bidi). Flowcharts and mockups from business requirements; process and usability improvements; brand and visual guidelines across products. Major news portal in Latin America.

  6. Kadabra

    UX & UI designer

    First on-demand delivery platform in Argentina — logo and branding, website look & feel with CPO and CTO. Acquired by Glovo at the start of their Argentina operations.

  7. Educatina

    UX & UI designer

    Platform UX/UI, iOS and Android apps, and responsive web for Latin America’s largest social education network (20+ countries). Video and exercise-based learning.

  8. Butan

    Creative director

    Digital and print for brands including DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding, Iñaki, Sweet Victorian, Laboratorios ELEA — sites, landing pages, newsletters, campaigns, and advertising.

  9. Clarín Global — CMD

    Graphic designer

    Online and offline design for MasOportunidades, Confronte, ClickAvisos, and related products — redesign of weekly print supplement, HTML layout, newsletters, microsites, and TV advertising support.

  10. Clarín Global — CMD

    Data manager

    E-commerce maintenance (Confronte.com), brand and media design.

Education

2007 – 2016

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Graphic designer (Diseño Gráfico) — visual communication and design.

2002 – 2006

Instituto Sagrada Familia

Bachelor’s degree — computer science track (English, networks, databases).

Short course

Educación IT

Intensive web development — PHP, MySQL, page performance, and user interaction.

Short course

Nueva Escuela

Flash, ActionScript, and XML.

Certifications

2025

Stanford Online

XDGT115 — Human-centered design for digital transformation.

2024

IDEO U

Human-centered service design.

2017

Globant

Globant Design Center program.

2006

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN)

Certificación en informática.

Skills

🎨 UX & UI

  • User research
  • Usability
  • User testing
  • Design systems
  • Prototyping
  • Accessibility
  • Workshop facilitation

🏢 Domains

  • Health
  • Banking & fintech
  • E-commerce
  • Education
  • Media & publishing

🛠️ Tools & delivery

  • Figma
  • HTML & front-end collaboration
  • Pre-sales & proposals
  • Mentoring & hiring
  • Teaching

💬 Languages

  • Spanish — native
  • English — full professional
  • French — limited working
  • Italian — elementary