Cecilia González
Product Designer & Creative Technologist · London
Senior Product Designer and Creative Technologist with 6+ years working at the intersection of human-centred design, systems thinking, and stakeholder complexity. I am a multidisciplinary creative with a focus on UX/UI design, creative coding, and immersive experiences. With an MSc in Computing in the Creative Industries at UAL, I combine my passion for interactive design with a strong background in industrial design and physical computing.
I've worked in multiple industries, from designing financial health tools at BBVA to enhancing operational systems applications and guest tech solutions for Disney Resort Technology, and learning experiences in edtech for Anthology Inc. I also spent two years teaching UX/UI Design and Human-Centered Design as an Associate Lecturer at Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) university.
TIMELINE
- 2026
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User Experience Designer
University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts
Led UX for a Student Journey Mapping initiative, designing an Interactive Course Planner that pairs a physical poster with a digital layer via QR/NFC — plus a Figma plugin that generates the posters from institutional data.
- 2025
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MSc Computing in the Creative Industries
University of the Arts London, CCI
Distinction · International Postgraduate Scholarship recipient. Thesis: Multispecies Environments, a procedurally-generated tool for urban ecological exploration.
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Multispecies Environments
A procedurally-generated Unity environment built from real iNaturalist sightings — my MSc final project.
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Emergence
A laser-cut topography model that grows a generative city from your own pen strokes.
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Umwelt: The Cube
A hand-turned cube installation where each face drops you into a different animal's sensory world.
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UX Designer Ssr Adv
Disney Resort Technology — Disney Experiences / Globant
Sole designer embedded in Resort Technology at Walt Disney World, bridging the team and Disney's global design organisation. Led the MagicBands troubleshooting experience from discovery to implementation.
- 2024
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Associate Lecturer in Design, Technology & Innovation
Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Querétaro
Taught UX Design, Human-Centered Design, and Creativity & Innovation, and coordinated faculty on course objectives and content.
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Best-Evaluated Lecturer
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Umwelt: Birdsong
Unsupervised ML on birdsong recordings, exploring what non-human perception might sound like.
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Down the Rabbit Hole
A live web app that turns a Wikipedia search into an explorable, force-directed graph.
- 2023
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Self-Encode MagicBands
A shipped My Disney Experience feature letting guests fix a dead room-access MagicBand from their phone.
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UX Designer
Blackboard — Anthology Inc. / Globant
Led design in the Course and Content Value Stream, taking new search and grading experiences from research with students and instructors through to delivery.
- 2022
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Product Designer
BBVA / Multiplica Talent
Lead designer on a discovery project innovating BBVA's financial product ecosystem, and contributor to the Advice Hub, improving users' financial health and habits.
- 2021
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BA Industrial & Product Design
Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM)
Specialisations in Advanced Product Development and Social Innovation. Thesis: Paprika, a modular furniture system.
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Student Experience Design Award
- 2020
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Con-Héctor CMS
A self-service CMS for WhatsApp campaigns bringing finance, health, and opportunity info to vulnerable communities.
- 2014
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Build Award + Judges Award, VEX U Worlds
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Division Semifinalists, VEX Worlds
- 2012
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Amaze Award, VEX Robotics Worlds