Juan Mena
Staff Interaction Designer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJuan Mena is a Staff Interaction Designer with a decade of experience crafting and prototyping mobile-first experiences, currently shaping experimental products at Google Labs in San Francisco. He led design and prototyping for YouTube Shorts creation and Media Reuse features, shipping 60+ launches across AI-driven and music-enabled workflows. Formerly a product design lead at Globant, he built and mentored teams while driving speculative UX for Disney Parks, blending physical and digital guest experiences. Known for hands-on prototyping and presentation design, he pairs deep interaction craft with strategic product thinking to move risky concepts into testable prototypes. Trained in graphic and interaction design, he brings a hybrid creative-technical perspective that emphasizes fast iteration and demonstrable user impact.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Minor Degree, Interaction Design, Minor Degree, Interaction Design at School of the Museum of Contemporary ArtsBachelor Degree, Graphic Design, Bachelor Degree, Graphic Design at UANL
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
lottie8
after-effects7
javascript3
sketch1
sketch-plugin1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
72/lottie-framer
May 2017 - Nov 2017
A Framer module that uses AirBnb's Lottie-Web to render animations exported from After Effects (JSON files)
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 6 months
after-effectslottie
72/personalsite
May 2019 - May 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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