Summary
Manuel Hurtado is a senior UX designer based in Bogotá with 11 years of experience crafting user-centered interfaces and research-driven product decisions across web and mobile platforms. He has led UX and product design at Mercado Libre and Wolox, bringing a blend of workshop facilitation, artifact creation, and methodology design to complex digital products. His background spans hands-on UI execution, from early web and multimedia projects to modern app ecosystems, informed by formal studies in interaction design, web technologies and photography. Comfortable in both consultancy and in-house roles, he pairs visual craft—rooted in a long history of graphic and photographic work—with systematic user research. Notably, his career path reflects a consistent progression from print and large-format production into strategic UX leadership, giving him a practical sensibility for design systems and implementation constraints.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Flash and multimedia applications, Web Technologies, Flash and multimedia applications, Web Technologies at Javeriana University
Bachelor of Graphic Arts and Applied, Bachelor diversified education, Bachelor of Graphic Arts and Applied, Bachelor diversified education at Enrique Olaya Herrera school
Photography and Technological Camerography, Fine Arts, Photography and Technological Camerography, Fine Arts at CIDE
Ux designer, Desarrollo de páginas web, contenido digital/multimedia y recursos informáticos, Ux designer, Desarrollo de páginas web, contenido digital/multimedia y recursos informáticos at The Interaction Design Foundation
Master Web technologies, web Technologies, Master Web technologies, web Technologies at University of Castilla - La Mancha
Spanish, English