Hi, I’m Carlos Salguero, a Senior Product Designer based in Toronto, originally from Colombia. I lead design work on complex enterprise products, connecting product direction, interaction architecture, and the technical details that make good experiencesr work.
Across telecommunications, logistics, and banking projects, I have navigated complex user roles, permissions, policy rules, and engineering dependencies. I focus on understanding how people actually work, where decisions are made, and identifying process weak points early.
Besides creating screens, I lead design discussions, bring different perspectives together, and help teams find direction when priorities compete. I believe in listening, asking thoughtful questions, giving constructive feedback, and making space for healthy debate. I work closely with designers and engineers to stay aligned, explain trade-offs, and make confident decisions. From discovery through implementation, I stay involved in accessibility, responsiveness, handoff, and quality assurance.
AI is now part of my practice. I use it for research, exploreation, quick prototypes, documentation, and repetitive tasks. It helps me work through ideas faster, but I verify the evidence, challenge the output, and remain accountable for the work.
I lead interaction design for products with multiple roles, business rules, permissions, and exceptional states. The work spans problem framing, workflow architecture, prototypes, accessibility, and detailed handoff. I want the team to understand and build the whole system, not only a screen.
I lead design conversations, reviews, and workshops that help product, engineering, and stakeholders agree on what matters. When constraints conflict, I make trade-offs visible, challenge assumptions, and help teams choose a direction they can explain and deliver.
I shape component architecture, reusable patterns, variants, and documentation while products are actively being built. I consider accessibility and engineering constraints together so the design system supports consistent, real product behaviour.
I use front-end fundamentals, Webflow, GitHub, and implementation-aware prototypes to test how an experience behaves before it ships. Working close to the build helps me spot gaps between a design file and the actual product.
I begin by understanding who is involved, what they're trying to do, and where business rules or handoffs complicate the work. Research, workflow maps, and conversations with stakeholders help me test assumptions.
I turn that understanding into flows, interaction states, permissions, and reusable patterns. I look at errors, access levels, responsive behaviour, and accessibility early, because edge cases often tell us more about the product than the ideal path.
I prototype to test decisions while there's still room to change them. That can mean a detailed Figma flow, a functional front-end example, or work directly in Webflow. I want to see what happens between screens and what engineering will need to support.
I stay close through implementation, helping resolve design questions, product-engineering trade-offs, and QA issues. If a dependency or constraint changes the plan, I help the team decide what to change, why, and how to protect the user experience.
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READ POST“Carlos gives and takes insightful design critiques and has tackled extremely complex design problems in our enterprise software. […] I’ve seen him rally his squad members together with enthusiasm, imparting his vision to Devs, POs, testers, designers, addressing each with the right language.”
“Carlos is an extremely talented UX designer. He takes meticulous care when it comes to his workflows and wireframes. He is not afraid to ask the tough questions and get exactly down the root cause of an issue so he can present the best possible option.”
"His leadership skills, ownership, and creative approach were instrumental in delivering high-quality designs that simplified complex requirements & exceeded client expectations. Carlos consistently went above and beyond, contributing to every phase of the project, including supporting the QA process."
"I worked with Carlos supporting TELUS agent desktop design. I always paused to hear his feedback as his insight is almost on-point. If it's not a comment to an eventual solution, it's insight to rethink the proposed design."
