Monica Saiz

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Hello!

Creating is simply part of how I move through the world.

Almost every day I make something: a drawing, a small interface, a song, a recipe, an idea, a plan. It is my way of expressing myself, connecting with others, learning, making sense of things, having fun, and being alive.

After nearly two decades working in technology, design has always been the thread running through everything I do. I enjoy exploring interfaces, illustration, writing, music production, accessibility, and the small details that make digital experiences feel thoughtful and human.

This space gathers some of those visual explorations.
Pieces where curiosity, craft, and play meet.

Projects UX/UI Design

A selection of projects and case studies about UX/UI Design, Design Thinking, and User-Centered Design.

Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, Repeat

Tackling problems from the point of view of a designer and a user-centered approach through the Design Thinking process. Research through interviews, surveys, user research methods, assumptions, validations, Personas, problem statements. Design of moodboards, style tiles, design systems, UI design for mobile apps and desktop, interactive prototypes

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good.

— Martin LeBlanc

Project: Online Game Save Piggy

Vanilla Javascript (ES6), HTML5, CSS3, animations

An Online Game: Save Piggy from the butcher!

Game for the browser to train DOM manipulation, Javascript classes and objects, developed in HTML5, CSS3 animations, and Vanilla Javascript (ES6). The game consists in saving the pig from the butcher. Dodge the knives thrown from the sky, while collecting fruits from the field on his way.

Project: Mes Amis

User Research and UI Design of an app for children to learn a new language while having fun.

Save animals while learning a language!

The project Mes Amis ('my friends' in French) started with just an idea and a blank paper: "Design of an app for children to learn a new language while having fun." After a UX research, interviews, and user and market research, these are the high fidelity design screens for the mobile app for kids.

For the complete Case Study, interactive prototype, full set of screens, and the whole UX and UI process, visit the Medium article. I wrote about it.

Style tiles

Final screens

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UX Articles and Case Studies

Writing about it all. These below are my favorite case studies and articles about anything related to UX.

Sketchnoting is for you, even if you can't draw

Sketchnoting is about capturing ideas, not about creating a piece of art!

From the Eyes of a Backpacker Traveler — a UX Case Study

I combined my passion for traveling with my early steps as a UX/UI Designer to spot UX improvement areas in a traveling app

Designing a Dream Option for Our Pets — Blablapet

The idea of a new feature so that users can reserve seats for their pets and travel with or without them.

Here is What Happens When You Mix Jamón with UX Design

The Jamometre, a yummy Case Study

Case study: Designing a language app for kids

From one initial idea to a mobile app's high fidelity design prototype for children.

First Week Back to School in My Thirties

The first five days at a UI/UX Design school was a life-changing experience. Here is my very personal side of the story.

Illustration

Keen on children's style and cartoons. Icons for apps or websites, logos, illustrations. Anything that can be drawn by hand can also be vectorized and used in our designs.

Keen on children's style and cartoons.

In my spare time, I like to design. Anything! I specially enjoy joining drawing challenges and sharing my growing process in this Instagram account dedicated to it. There's an amazing and supportive artists community out there!

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Also some personal writing

Writing as my creativity nourisher.

Writing is the closest thing I have to meditation.

The real fuel for my creativity and awakens life awareness. I write about experiences and feelings, people I love, thoughts... By writing I talk to myself and to others, I learn from mistakes, release, reflect, deepen, observe, rearrange, understand.
Below you can find a selection of my personal writing, and if you want to read more, I host them all under my Medium profile, where I write regularly.

Article

Publication

A Beautiful Goodbye

Alzheimer's didn't allow her to remember, but the force of love worked a miracle

P.S. I love you

Sexually Abused at The Age of Eight

Abusing a kid can destroy their entire existence, and I've seen it up close in the life of a woman I love.

Fearless she wrote

Confinement is Reshaping The Way We Connect

Nothing will be the same after this pandemic

P.S. I love you

I Love You Dearly — Although You're Not Yet Born