1987
Born in Fomento, Cuba.
1995
Moved to San José, Costa Rica.
1997
Got my first computer.
Bricked my first computer.
Learned how to build my first computer.
1998
The year of Starcraft.
1999
Y2K.
2000
Started studying Graphic Design at Colegio Técnico Don Bosco.
2001
Sold my Playstation 2 to buy a bass.
2002
Started a band with my brother, Alex.
Used an Apple computer for the first time.
2003
Moved to Tampa, FL.
2004
Started my first blog.
Discovered HTML.
2005
Completed High School.
2006
Created my first personal website.
2007
Completed AA in Graphic Design.
Fell in love with the iPhone.
2008
Joined Lithobinder as Graphic Designer.
Released Los Hijos de Ismael's first album, En Pie de Paz.
2009
Joined ImageMedia as Graphic Designer.
Joined Clear Channel Outdoor as Graphic Designer.
2010
2011
Joined Momentum Mobile as UI Designer.
Joined Mad Mobile as Senior UI Designer.
Launched Barnes and Noble's Sparknotes iOS app.
Launched Cafepress mobile site.
2012
Launched Sleep Number mobile site.
Moved to Los Angeles, CA.
Joined Mopro & Mohawk Digital as Design Manager.
Joined Automatic as Head of Design.
2013
Moved to San Francisco, CA.
Released Los Hijos de Ismael's second album, La furia del último paso.
Launched Automatic.com.
Designed the logo for Jeff Cannata's Newest Latest Best podcast.
Released a free iPhone mockup PSD to the design community.
Launched Automatic for iPhone.
Automatic Package featured in U.S. Apple Stores.
Launched Automatic for Android.
Automatic named one of the finalists of Fast Company's Innovation By Design Awards.
2014
Joined Facebook as a Product Designer.
Helped redesign the Facebook Pages Manager App for iOS.
Worked on Boosted Posts, Promoted Pages, Promoted Websites, & Custom CTAs for Pages.
Joined Facebook's Friend Sharing team.
Experimented with ephemerality on Facebook.
2015
Guest on Design Details Episode 5.
Moved to London, UK.
Spoke at UX Scotland with Blaise DiPersia.
Guest on Design Details Episode 40.
Launched Peek beta for iOS.
Launched Multi-Post Stories to Italy.
2016
Moved back to San Francisco, CA.
Joined Facebook's VR Design team.
Spoke at Gasparilla Interactive Conference.
Spoke at Weebly's Dribbble Meetup with Dann Petty and Jeff Broderick.
Launched 360 Photos on Facebook.
Spoke at Valiocon about a few design principles for VR Design.
Got my first intern.
Launched Talk Turkey with Charlie Deets.
Sat down with Co.Design to talk about Talk Turkey.
Watched Mark Zuckerberg demo the project I'd been working on at OC3.
Founded the Facebook group Impostores for latinos in design, engineering, and UX.
Featured as one of Tradecraft's 64 People You Should Know in Design.
Interviewed by 52inspire and got to reflect and speculate about design.
Spoke at AIGA's Design Work: Designing for VR panel.
Gave a guest lecture about failing often at Tradecraft.
Launched the Facebook VR Design Resources site.
Spoke at Ad 2 Tampa Bay's Back From The Future December Ad Talk.
Played an unhealthy amount of Overwatch.
2017
Started Bread Time with Charlie Deets.
Spoke at Designers + Geeks about Designing VR at Facebook.
Shared my story as an immigrant in tech for the BANNED project.
Spoke about Designing for Facebook VR with Stephanie Engle and Chris No at Impact Hub, hosted by Propeller Labs.
Launched Facebook 360 for Gear VR.
Guest on App Masters Podcast Episode 521.
Guest on Diseño Cha Cha Cha Podcast, Episode 2.
Q&A panel at Tradecraft with Katya Kostyukova.
Q&A at California College of the Arts.
Guest on the Hustle Podcast, Episode 62.
Launched Facebook Spaces for the Oculus Rift.
Got married to my best friend.
Guest on Sketch Together with Pablo Stanley
Organized and hosted Vectors Conference.
Replaced my love for Overwatch with an obsession with PUBG.
Spoke at MirrorConf in Braga, Portugal.
Guest on the STEM Diversity Podcast, Episode 10.
Spoke at JAM Conference in London, UK.
Spoke at UX World in Seoul, South Korea.
Moved to New York, NY.
Joined Google Daydream.
Worked on Poly's Tour Creator.
2018
Produced and arranged Alex Valdivia's Sandalias del Olimpo, La Equis and La Petite Mort.
Joined Alphabet's Jigsaw.
Guest on Digital Nomates Podcast.
Taught a guest lecture at Queens College.
Got my first Chicken Dinner.
Guest on How To Create VR Podcast.
Spoke at Designers + Geeks about Immersive Design: The Next 10 Years of Interfaces.
Spoke at re:publica 2018 in Berlin, Germany.
Launched the Impostores Medium Publication.
Featured in Phase Magazine's Design for Change series.
Spoke at Radiche's Techtonic at Project Cozy.
Started hosting Late Night Design Show with Pablo Stanley and friends.
Spoke at Epicurrence Summer Revival in Yosemite.
Spoke at Manage By Q's Breakpoints 3 about Designers' relationship with Product Managers.
Spoke at Awwwards Conference in New York.
2019
Spoke to Laboratoria students in Lima, Peru with Daniel Burka.
Spoke at Design Driven NYC about Experimentation in User Research at Jigsaw.
Spoke at Google's UXU APAC 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
Launched my first solo music album, Blankets.
Judged Core77 2019 Design Awards Strategy & Research category.