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.
Product, web, and a little bit of brand too. Industrial control rooms, human rights databases, SaaS platforms, ML interfaces.
Where I have been. 2025 to now, independent designer. 2021 to 2025, Huridocs, design lead. 2018 to 2021, Lumenalta, senior designer. 2016 to 2018, Thoughtworks, senior designer. 2013 to 2016, independent designer. 2010 to 2013, Azendoo and Cycloboost. 2003 to 2010, independent, early web.
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2025 to now. Independent, Quito, remote.

Product, brand, and web for teams working on complex, meaningful problems. Building my own tools in the gaps.

Uwazi, pushing the limits of research2025 to nowEvery fact says who said it. A researcher's questions, answered on one screen. Umbra2026 to nowA RAW developer for the Mac, built for how I edit. Not on the App Store yet. Operator2025 to nowMission control for working agents. Open source, macOS. Mantel2025 to nowOperations for restaurants and bars. Running live in Quito. El Encanto, Jardín de Vinos2025 to nowA wine garden in Quito. Brand, room, and the app that runs it. Photo Importer2025 to nowOff the card, into folders I can find. No library, no cloud. Fastrack2025 to nowA 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.

Uwazi Design2021 to 2025Rebrand and platform redesign for Huridocs, in four tracks. The machine reads2021 to 2025The database reads its own documents. You accept or reject. Evidence Collection2021 to 2025Not a screenshot: a page captured with its provenance. The Uwazi refactor2021 to 2025Eighteen months rebuilding the interface without stopping the work it carries.
2018 to 2021. Lumenalta, senior designer, remote.

Enterprise software for Fortune 500 companies across logistics, fintech, and healthcare, when Lumenalta was still Clevertech.

Railcar Management2018 to 2021A rail yard ran on paper. I replaced the printout with a screen.
El tiempo pasa y las memorias quedan
2016 to 2018. Thoughtworks, senior designer, Latin America.

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 and Cycloboost, designer, 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. Independent, early web, Ecuador and France.

Interactive sites, CD-ROM presentations, Flash experiences, brand systems, and commercial video and sound for ad clients.

Some of it survives in the interfaces and graphics archives.

The experiments, themes, and games that did not fit on the line are in the lab.

BorradoresThe longer writing, each piece on its own page. NotesVocabularies and guides, for talking to people and to models. On GitHub, opens in a new tab Write meEmail, or the other doors. Quito hours.
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