Summary
Manuel Cespedes is a Senior Product Designer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience designing digital products, design systems, and user interfaces for companies from startups to Amazon and Microsoft. He combines product- and systems-thinking with hands-on prototyping and front-end skills (HTML/CSS/JS, React) to create accessible, documented component libraries and ship measurable business outcomes. At Microsoft and Amazon he led audits and built foundations that improved consistency across major web properties, and he鈥檚 comfortable translating research and business needs into scalable UI systems. Known for a bias toward action and collaborative influence, he accelerates teams by establishing templates, processes, and design reviews that reduce bottlenecks. Less obvious: he pairs creative design work with engineering fluency, enabling smoother handoffs via Storybook/Figma libraries and detailed design specifications.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing at Florida International University
English, Spanish