About

I'm a product designer and a recognized thought leader in HCI. With over a decade of industry experience, I have cultivated a human-centered approach while driving tangible business results. I have designed and launched successful products with large organizations (Meta and Samsung) and innovated with various startups to roll out new ventures worldwide.

Currently, I'm a founding Product Designer at Hunch, an AI workspace that allows users to work on more complex projects with the help of AI. Hunch's first-of-its-kind UX enables users to build AI workflows that break large problems down into simpler steps, improving what's possible to do with current state-of-the-art AI models by threefold. As the first designer on the team, I helped to build the core UX, brand, and initial user base from the ground up.

As a lead product designer at Meta's Horizon Workrooms, I solved complex technical and UX problems to bring the next generation of VR/AR productivity applications to life. Recent projects include Magic Rooms (featured by Mark Zuckerberg at Connect 2022) and many AR-based interaction patterns shipped in the new Meta Quest Pro and the newly announced Orion AR Glasses.

Previously, I was part of the founding team at Wonder, where my contributions to product design were key in bringing the company from an early-stage venture to the stage of product and design maturity, reaching 1M users in its first year. At Samsung's mobile R&D, I led and managed cross-functional design teams, developing key software and hardware products such as Samsung's first smartwatch and Samsung OS redesign (formerly TouchWiz).

I have written and spoken about product design and emerging technologies internationally and collaborated with leading researchers to co-found the cross-disciplinary research non-profit the Metagovernance Project.

Feel free to contact me if you'd like to chat about anything regarding design, technology, or anything you're excited about.

ricardoasaavedra@gmail.com

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