Andrés Clavijo
Director of UX at Hourly
Design operations presented as leadership case studies.
What they show
A site he deliberately rebuilt to address founders and hiring managers looking for UX leadership rather than another product designer. The flagship case study is a Figma-based Design Hub: the shared process, documentation and rituals that align design, product, engineering and QA. Alongside it: documented onboarding sequences and team sync frameworks. His stated formula for each case study is three questions: what was the business problem, what leadership decisions did I make, what measurable impact followed. His positioning lines: 13+ years in the industry, seven building and mentoring design teams.
Why it works at this level
Most Director portfolios struggle because the leader's real output is invisible infrastructure: how the team works, how it onboards, how it stays aligned. Andrés makes the infrastructure the case study. A design hub is a shippable thing with before-and-after states, so it can be shown with screenshots and metrics the way a product would be, and it's rarely confidential. The three-question structure is the sharpest small idea in this whole collection: it forces every project to name a leadership decision, which is the one thing hiring managers at this level are actually screening for.
What to steal
Pick one piece of team infrastructure you built (a hub, an onboarding path, a critique ritual, a review process) and write it up as a full case study with visuals. Then reframe every other case study around his three questions. If your site was written when you were an IC, rewrite the About page before you touch anything else.
What I'd change
One thing I'd push on. Every site here is good; this is the note I'd send the author.
His own write-up of the redesign is on Medium rather than on the site, and it's the best explanation of his thinking. Bringing that reasoning onto the portfolio itself, as a page or a short note in About, would let the site make its own case.