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© 2026 Javier Salido. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. The typos are mine alone.

Twenty years designing digital products, and the last two building the systems and tools that make them possible. Ecommerce for Harley-Davidson, Toyota, and Converse. A design system for BNP Paribas that still runs as the single source of truth across web and mobile.
I lead end-to-end, brand systems, UX strategy, interface, and the front-end to ship it. Currently Principal Product Designer at TBWA\Chiat\Day, running design direction on high-accountability U.S. government engagements.
How I work now
Two years ago I connected Figma to Claude via MCP to build the systems and tools behind the design work itself: tokens, variables, and full component variant sets that used to take a day by hand and now take about ten minutes. When a project calls for it, I build custom generative tools too, including an image generator a current client now runs on their own. It's part of how I work day to day, nothing I only bring out for a pitch.
Before the agency track
I started and sold an ecommerce company, Sublin: custom phone cases built in real time from a customer's own social photos. Shipped from concept to production in three days, on a three-thousand-dollar budget. Grew it through revenue-share partnerships with artists and influencers, then sold it to fund my move to the U.S.
I also co-founded a design studio, Wizyu, in Madrid. That chapter ended over a disagreement on direction with our main investor, but the studio carried on under the principles we set for another ten years. That's part of why I think past the brief now: I've run the business side of a product before, priced it, marketed it, and lived with what happened after it shipped.
Based in Asheville, North Carolina. Remote-first.

Looking for a Principal role or fractional design leadership. Glad to talk if something sounds like a fit.
© 2026 Javier Salido. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. The typos are mine alone.

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© 2026 Javier Salido. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. The typos are mine alone.
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