Rubén Santillàn is a Senior Digital Product Designer based in Rome with nine years crafting UX, UI and web experiences across startups and scale-ups. Trained in Industrial Design at La Sapienza, he partners with interdisciplinary teams to drive work from concept through prototyping, usability testing and performance monitoring, often building design systems and information architectures along the way. He brings hands-on front-end experience too, contributing UI improvements and tooltip/button enhancements to the popular AI-driven translation tool MateCat. Known for applying human-centered design, data-driven persona creation and design sprints, Rubén blends visual thinking and facilitation techniques like gamestorming to accelerate collaboration. His background as a co-founder and web design coach gives him practical product instincts and a strong bias toward usable, testable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
SASS, SASS at LabForTraining
Industrial Design, Industrial Design at Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
MateCat is an AI driven translation tool for language industry professionals. Matecat makes machine translation post-editing and project outsourcing easy.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:1101 commits, 386 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rubén's contributions primarily involve modifications to React components within the `matecat/matecat` repository. The commits focused on UI enhancements, including additions and adjustments to elements within the UI, specifically addressing aspects related to UI design. Furthermore, changes included updates to the appearance of the buttons and the implementation of the tooltip component within the existing structure.
MateCat Official Repository. MateCat is an enterprise-level, web-based CAT tool designed to make post-editing and outsourcing easy and to provide a complete set of features to manage and monitor translation projects.
Contributions:1 PR, 502 pushes, 30 branches in 2 years 3 months
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