Alonso Castro
Lead Experience Designer at Parsons School of Design - The New School
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlonso Castro is a Lead Experience Designer based in New York with over a decade of practice crafting multi-channel user experiences and conversational systems, currently driving the unification and rebrand of Verizon’s Wireless and Home chatbot experiences. With 14 years across design disciplines and an MFA from Parsons, he blends product design, creative technology, and teaching—mentoring junior designers and lecturing on IoT, computation, and speculative design. He led the conversational design system and search/assistant redesign for the My Verizon app, demonstrating strength in systems thinking and large-scale UX consistency. He brings a maker’s background (laser work and fabrication) and a curiosity about food futures and cultural technology, which surfaces in interdisciplinary projects and classroom studios. Practical, collaborative, and pedagogically minded, Alonso turns complex technical constraints into human-centered, forward-thinking experiences.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
No Degree, No Degree at Community College of VermontMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Master of Fine Arts - MFA at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolBachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at University of New HavenHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Colegio Alpamayo
Spanish, English
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alonsojcastro/casta828_iot_code
Sep 2015 - Jan 2020
Internet of Things class Fall 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
fallinternet-of-thingsiotinternet
alonsojcastro/iot-sp-20
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:41 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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