Juan Manuel Cornejo
Quito, Ecuador. 2,850 m above the sea. Americas, UTC−5.
Open to part-time remote
About meWhere I come from and how I work.
NoteA line in the hand, saved as a picture.
23 years of design. Still learning.
Product, brand, and web for teams working on complex, meaningful problems. Building my own tools in the gaps.
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2025 to now. Independent, Quito, remote.
OperatorMission control for working agents. Open source, macOS.
MantelOperations for restaurants and bars. Running live in Quito.
El Encanto, Jardín de VinosA wine garden in Quito. Brand, room, and the app that runs it.
Uwazi DesignRebrand and platform redesign for Huridocs, in four tracks.
Photo ImporterOff the card, into folders I can find. No library, no cloud.
FastrackA fasting tracker on the watch. The logo fills as the fast runs.
Let me get this right
2021 to 2025. Huridocs, design lead, remote.
Led design for Uwazi, the open-source human rights documentation platform used by 150+ organizations. Evidence that has to hold up in court, and machine learning that researchers train themselves.
The machine readsThe database reads its own documents. You accept or reject.
Evidence CollectionNot a screenshot: a page captured with its provenance.
2018 to 2021. Lumenalta, formerly Clevertech, senior designer.
Enterprise software for Fortune 500 companies across logistics, fintech, and healthcare.
Railcar ManagementA rail yard ran on paper. I replaced the printout with a screen.
El tiempo pasa y las memorias quedan
Product, web, and a little bit of brand too. Industrial control rooms, human rights databases, SaaS platforms, ML interfaces.
2016 to 2018. Thoughtworks, senior designer.
Product design and workshop facilitation for consulting clients across Latin America. Quito, Santiago, São Paulo, Porto Alegre.
2013 to 2016. Independent, five countries.
Websites, brand identities, and print for clients in Ecuador, the UK, Spain, the USA, and Mexico, from pitch to delivery.
2010 to 2013. Azendoo, Cycloboost, France.
Redesigned the full interface of a collaborative productivity startup. Before that, art direction for a cycling brand: video, photography, print, and the campaigns that grew it online.
Veo al tiempo pasar
2003 to 2010. Early web, Ecuador, France.
Interactive sites, CD-ROM presentations, Flash experiences, brand systems, and commercial video and sound for ad clients.
The experiments, themes, and games that did not fit on the line are in the lab.
NotesVocabularies and guides, for talking to people and to models.
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Write meEmail, or the other doors. Quito hours.
Creo que esto es todo