Albert Carmona

Resume

Albert Carmona

Resume

Product Designer

I design products and ship them in code, with Claude Code as my engineering partner. Before that, I spent ten years leading UI on NBA 2K.

Building and Shipping a Self-Hosted Finance App, Solo

Designed and built a self-hosted finance app solo with Claude Code. An 'old money' UI in light and dark mode on top of 250+ API endpoints, shipped over 8 weeks of evenings.

Design Engineering

AI Workflow

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Building and Shipping a Self-Hosted Finance App, Solo

Designed and built a self-hosted finance app solo with Claude Code. An 'old money' UI in light and dark mode on top of 250+ API endpoints, shipped over 8 weeks of evenings.

Design Engineering

AI Workflow

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Designing a Clinical System That Draws Its Own Screens

Designed the V1 system in Figma and built a fully interactive prototype with Claude Code for a Stanford-backed pediatric health startup. User research with nurses and pediatric professionals.

Research

AI Workflow

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Designing a Clinical System That Draws Its Own Screens

Designed the V1 system in Figma and built a fully interactive prototype with Claude Code for a Stanford-backed pediatric health startup. User research with nurses and pediatric professionals.

Research

AI Workflow

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Building a Scalable Design System for a Live Service Product

Consolidated 500+ components to ~40. Cut build time from 2 weeks to under 1. Designed a three tier token system across platforms.

Systems Design

Design Tokens

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Building a Scalable Design System for a Live Service Product

Consolidated 500+ components to ~40. Cut build time from 2 weeks to under 1. Designed a three tier token system across platforms.

Systems Design

Design Tokens

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Designing and Shipping a Fitness App, Solo

Built Mizar Fitness, a full-stack workout tracking app spanning React web and native iOS, solo with Claude Code. Underpinned by its own semantic design-token system, 40+ enforced components, and an AI-agent tooling layer that keeps every screen consistent across platforms.

Product Design

Shipped

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Designing and Shipping a Fitness App, Solo

Product Design

Shipped

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Unifying Four Disconnected Editors Into a Single System

Replaced four independently built editors with a single system driven menu. Concept to approval in one month, half the usual timeline. Any designer on the team can now maintain it.

Systems Thinking

Interaction Design

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Unifying Four Disconnected Editors Into a Single System

Replaced four independently built editors with a single system driven menu. Concept to approval in one month, half the usual timeline. Any designer on the team can now maintain it.

Systems Thinking

Interaction Design

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Redesigning a Main Menu Across Five Teams

Coordinated Environment, Lighting, Characters, Engineering, and UI/UX over 8 months. Built tools with engineering to refresh content without touching code.

Cross Functional

Production Tools

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Redesigning a Main Menu Across Five Teams

Coordinated Environment, Lighting, Characters, Engineering, and UI/UX over 8 months. Built tools with engineering to refresh content without touching code.

Cross Functional

Production Tools

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Redesigning a Main Menu Across Five Teams

Coordinated Environment, Lighting, Characters, Engineering, and UI/UX over 8 months. Built tools with engineering to refresh content without touching code.

Cross Functional

Production Tools

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Craft & Motion

UI motion, in-game transitions, and feature presentations across various NBA 2K releases.

Craft & Motion

UI motion, in-game transitions, and feature presentations across various NBA 2K releases.

Interactive Features & Production Tools

Designed in-game features and built production tools used by artists and engineers across the team.

Interactive Features & Production Tools

Designed in-game features and built production tools used by artists and engineers across the team.

Art Direction

Directed a team of concept and motion artists shaping the visual language for UI across multiple NBA 2K releases.

Art Direction

Directed a team of concept and motion artists shaping the visual language for UI across multiple NBA 2K releases.

I’m a product designer who builds what I design, mostly in code with Claude Code, and I care a lot about craft. Before that I spent ten years on NBA 2K at 2K Games, where I shipped 11 releases and led the front end on 6 of them.

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