Portrait of Mat Mervin Salazar

Mat Mervin Salazar

Lead / Senior Product Designer

I build digital products grounded in reality, not heavy theories and rigid frameworks and combine fast execution and live prototypes with data-backed intuition to design B2B and B2C products that scale.

Email me LinkedIn (opens in a new tab) GitHub (Work) (opens in a new tab)461 merged PRs as the designerMar – Oct 2026Snapshot up to 8 October 2026, when the last PRs from the role merged. GitHub (Personal) (opens in a new tab)112 merged PRs on this siteOct–Nov 2026This portfolio's own code. Updated November 4, 2026.

About

13 years of experience, including 10 years as a founding designer, having done product design and hands-on UI/UX craft.

I work with PMs and engineers to turn complex, data-heavy requirements into a shipped v1 product. I avoid mockups; I build interactive prototypes and internal tools that shorten the team's path from decision to delivery.

I'm self-taught - I've learned a lot from my design heroes, but I don't blindly follow them. I put them into practice and take whatever works for me at that time. My design intuition comes from what I've delivered and what didn't work, given the resources at hand.

Outside work - I'm a music lover and a coffee drinker. I love taking notes on everything, I like to call it an excercise of brain dumping. I love hats, but specifically baseball, and beanies (not sure if they are considered hats).

Case studies

Recent experiments

Experience

  1. Jan 2024 – Sept 2026

  2. May 2013 – Dec 2023

  3. Gomigu Inc. on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)

    UI/UX and Product Designer · Partnership with Zoog

    Mar 2018 – Feb 2022

  4. Metron Innovation Group on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)

    UI/UX Designer · Partnership with Zoog

    May 2017 – Nov 2017

  5. Micab on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)

    UI/UX and Product Designer · Partnership with Zoog

    Jun 2016 – Nov 2018

Let's build something

Open to Lead and Senior product design roles. Preferably remote, open to hybrid.

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