Juan De La Cruz García
Designer & Co-Founder at Penpot
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan De La Cruz García is a product and UI designer with 11 years of experience who co-founded Penpot, an open-source design and prototyping tool where he contributes front-end work and UI component improvements. Based in Madrid, he blends traditional art training (Licenciatura in Fine Arts and masters in design and concept art) with hands-on web and app design, from responsive websites to mobile UX. At AMC Networks and Kaleidos he shipped production-ready front-end frameworks, WordPress themes, and cross-platform app interfaces, honing a pragmatic approach to design systems. Known for sketching as a core part of his process, he emphasizes tactile ideation alongside code-driven UI refinement. An active open-source advocate, he favors collaborative tools that bridge designers and developers and has helped integrate fonts, layouts, and styling polish into Penpot’s uxbox.
11 years of coding experience
Creative Scape, Creativity, Curse, Web Design, Creative Scape, Creativity, Curse, Web Design at ChellomediaMaster en Diseño, Diseño, Master en Diseño, Diseño at Universidad Complutense de MadridMaster en Concept Art, Ilustración, Diseño, Arte digital, Master en Concept Art, Ilustración, Diseño, Arte digital at Trazos
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
clojure10
uid10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
clojure-cli10
clojurescript10
ux-design9
css8
react7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
penpot/penpot
Dec 2015 - Jan 2023
Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:352 commits, 45 PRs, 458 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Penpot project. Their commits focused on UI enhancements and component improvements, particularly within the `uxbox` directory. The changes involved refactoring code, fixing styling issues, implementing new UI elements, and integrating new features such as a new font and layout.
penpotprototypingux-experienceopen-source-designclojurescript
penpot/penpot-files
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Publicly released files and assets of Penpot, The Open-Source design & prototyping platform
Contributions:46 commits, 13 PRs, 84 pushes in 1 year 4 months
usabilitypenpotopen-source-designprototypingreleased
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