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gaby@mexi.design
I'm Gabriela, or Gaby, or Mexi. Depends on what side of the internet you're coming from.
I'm a lifelong artist and creator, pursuing design work since 2016. While I have a background rooted in creativity and self-expression, I've developed a knack and passion for solving complex issues and turning them into elegant interfaces and experiences. It can sometimes feel like my mind is split between two worlds—one where I’m free to explore and experiment, and another where I’m focused on solving problems with precision and structure. It’s this duality that gives my work its balance—where creativity meets practicality.
Outside of my creative work, I lead an active lifestyle here in Austin, Texas. When I’m not hitting the gym or on a run, you’ll probably find me enjoying a laid-back happy hour or exploring the city's vibrant music and food scene. Balance is key, after all! Let's chat?
Gaby is one of the best UX designers I've worked with in my career. At Edgio, she designed all of our next-generation solutions, including CDN, web performance, edge compute and various other security products i.e. the web application firewall, bot manager, and attack surface management, all of which contributed significantly to our growth over the past few years. She excelled in creating both new product experiences from the ground up and improving our existing product experiences, significantly enhancing their usability and effectiveness.
Gaby's design skills are exceptional. She combines technical precision with a deep understanding of user needs, producing interfaces that are intuitive, visually cohesive, and highly functional for our broad customer base. Her strong technical foundation in both front-end technologies and backend configurations ensures her designs are well-grounded and easy to implement—an essential quality for maintaining a high-velocity product development organization. Her ability to incorporate feedback and translate suggestions into impactful design changes elevated the platform's user experience, improving onboarding processes and overall user satisfaction.
Collaboration is one of Gaby's core strengths. She consistently brought together key stakeholders across engineering, sales, product, and client services, fostering alignment and ensuring projects were delivered efficiently. In addition, she's also highly customer focused, ensuring that she's well tuned in to customer's experience using the product, while making needed adjustment based on their feedback. Her ability to lead cross-functional teams on a high-stake UX project while maintaining focus and momentum helps ensure multiple successful product launches.
In addition to her UX expertise, Gaby also stepped into the role of a de facto console product manager, taking ownership of our UI development. She provided clear, day-to-day product guidance to engineering teams, driving the successful execution of key roadmap initiatives. Her leadership and expertise enabled the launch of multiple new products and major enhancements each quarter, delivering tangible value to our customers.
Gaby's combination of design expertise, technical knowledge, leadership, and collaboration makes her a valuable asset to any high velocity product development team. I strongly recommend her to any organization looking for a strong UX leader who can own and delivery highly impactful UX initiatives.
I worked with Gabriela on complex Security, DNS, and Application Platform UX. She dove in and fully grasped the user needs. She collaborated exceptionally well with the engineering teams and was a joy to work with.
Gabriela is an excellent designer and a great coworker. She goes above and beyond to make sure engineers like myself know what the design should look like and how it should work. She also ensures that the design is being followed every step of the way, and is there to answer questions or modify designs if necessary. She's an asset to any company that hires her.
