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About Tigo Ponce de León
Hello
nice to meet you
Tigo Ponce de León is a product design engineer from Portland, Oregon. He now resides in the Midwest, studying Media Arts & Design and Computer Science at the University of Chicago, where he’ll graduate in Spring 2027.
He believes that software should be both useful and pleasurable and that all design decisions should act in service of that fundamental aspiration. He also considers artificial intelligence as the defining technology of this age and is eager to contribute to its evolution over the coming years.
When not busy designing prototypes in Figma or translating ideas to code, you can find him going on bike rides along Lake Michigan, watching Real Madrid matches, or hanging out with friends.
Experience
three teams, two continents
UX Engineer Intern
Vicino AI
Agentic generation and analytics for an AI marketing platform; a Figma-to-React component library.
Summer 2026
Bellevue, WA
Product Designer
PantryPal
End-to-end AI recipe app; task completion up 40% across testing rounds.
Winter 2025–26
Chicago, IL
UX Researcher
University of Chicago
Studied interface homogenization across six AI-generated web apps.
Autumn 2025
Chicago, IL
Founding Visual Designer
Next Level Drone Cleaning
Complete brand identity and marketing site for a drone-tech startup.
Summer 2025
Kortrijk, Belgium
