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Jose Trave Villalba

Designer & builder.

Designer & builder

Curious about how products work —
and how AI changes the craft without replacing judgment.

Design systems humans use. Specs agents can parse. Same craft, two surfaces.

I’m a senior product designer with 8+ years shipping marketplace, SaaS, and design-system work — Homelike, ayoba, PortAventura, Reental, Bikiot, CaixaBank (fintech).

I write product decisions so they survive handoff — into Figma, Storybook, MCP, and markdown agents can read. 8+ years: marketplace, SaaS, systems, fintech (CaixaBank).

Lately I design with AI in the loop: Cursor, Claude Code, MCP. Side projects like Timeitt are how I pressure-test that.

Stack in the loop: Cursor · Claude Code · Figma MCP. Timeitt is the live sandbox. PortAventura MCP → Storybook is the production proof. Metrics still decide what ships.

Working remotely from Lleida, Spain.

location: ES · remote

Message me → message me

Selected work

Experience

Sneakers

Sneakers are one of my longest-running design obsessions — silhouette, materials, colorways, the story behind a drop. Same eye I bring to product: details have to earn their place.

That’s why the pointer is an Air Jordan 1 Low OG x Travis Scott ‘Reverse Mocha’. Not a random cursor. A quiet signature for anyone who looks twice — and a reminder that craft lives outside Figma too.

Personal system note: sneakers = long-running craft obsession (silhouette · material · colorway · drop narrative). Same taste filter as product work.

cursor: air-jordan-1-low-og-x-travis-scott-reverse-mocha — intentional signature, not decoration. Notice the toes; that’s the hotspot.

Air Jordan 1 Low OG x Travis Scott 'Reverse Mocha'
Air Jordan 1 Low OG x Travis Scott ‘Reverse Mocha’
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About

Family, friends, sports, and freedom — that’s what I fight for.

One of my deepest passions is traveling — solo, and with friends and family. Right now I'm making my way through The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Dostoevsky.

Design is attention. AI is leverage. Markdown, tokens, and MCP are how judgment travels into systems without getting lost in a slide deck.

This toggle isn’t a gimmick — it’s the job: product for humans, specs for the agents and engineers who ship with you.

Jose Trave overlooking New York City
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