Curriculum Vitae

Luis Manzur Díaz

Senior Product Designer & Design Engineer

Senior product designer and design engineer with 10+ years across UX/UI, brand, and full-stack web development. I take products from Figma to production Rails — owning the full arc from research and design systems to shipped, revenue-generating software. Founder of a white-label SaaS in active use by paying studios. Based in Mexico.

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Experience

Founder & Product Designer

Eclipse · eclipsecms.com

  • Founded and built a white-label SaaS for boutique fitness and yoga studios, owning the product end to end — research, UX/UI, design system, and production code (Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Tailwind, Stripe Connect).
  • Designed and shipped booking, membership, and payments flows now used by 8 paying studio clients, serving +10,000 active members and processing +$10K USD/month via Stripe.
  • Powers 2,500 class bookings per month and cut studio onboarding from contract to live to under 5 days.
  • Built a +120 component design system spanning booking, membership, and admin, and architected platform-level integrations with Wellhub/Gympass (TotalPass in progress) to extend studios into corporate-wellness networks.
  • Secured a friends-and-family funding round to take the company full-time.

Product Designer (UI/UX)

Profound Logic

  • Lead end-to-end UX/UI for enterprise web and apps — research, personas, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished Figma interfaces.
  • Designed and shipped +50 features, partnering with PMs and engineers to turn complex business requirements into technically feasible designs.
  • Built and maintained a +80 component design system used across 3 products.
  • Ran +10 usability sessions to validate flows before development, as the sole designer supporting a team of 8 engineers.

Product Designer

Ventup

  • Partnered with cross-functional teams to turn business requirements into shipped web and mobile features; ran research, wireframing, prototyping, and iterative usability testing in Figma.
  • Designed features for products used by people in the restaurant industry, running 3 design sprints and +30 rounds of usability testing to iterate toward concrete results.
  • Created and maintained a +150 component design system across the product.

Front-end Developer

Lagom Startup Studio

  • Translated design mockups into responsive, pixel-perfect interfaces (HTML/CSS/JS), bridging design and engineering with clean, maintainable code.

Independent Designer & Developer

Manzur Studio

  • Run an independent design-and-build practice spanning brand, UX/UI, and front-end (Rails, React, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow).
  • Delivered +30 end-to-end web products from concept to launch for clients.
  • Founded and run Ámbar Coffee (ambarcoffee.com) — specialty coffee brand with a live Shopify storefront I designed and built.

Digital Designer

Icalia Labs

  • Product design + front-end development for client web products — one of my first roles combining the designer-who-ships skillset that defines my work today.

Education & Certifications

B.A. in Graphic Design & Marketing

RYT500 Advanced Yoga Instructor Certification

Skills

Design

  • Product / UX / UI
  • Design Systems & Design Tokens
  • Interaction Design
  • Information Architecture
  • User Flows & Journey Mapping
  • Wireframing & Prototyping
  • User Research
  • Usability Testing
  • Responsive & Mobile Design

Engineering

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Hotwire
  • React
  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript
  • Tailwind
  • Stripe
  • Git

Tools

  • Figma
  • Adobe CC (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects)
  • Sketch
  • Shopify
  • Webflow
  • Squarespace

Ways of working

  • End-to-end ownership
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Design-to-dev handoff
  • AI-native workflow (Claude Code in production)

Languages

  • Spanish (native)
  • English (professional)
  • German (basic)