# Cristobal Castilla > Staff Product Designer at Descript Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/cristobal Cristobal Castilla is a designer specialized in digital products. He is currently based in Seattle, WA, building Descript, an AI-first video editor for storytellers. With over 15 years experience, he's worked in different countries and crafted products for companies such as Facebook, Oculus (Meta’s VR platform), Nokia, Wire, Telefónica, elBulli Foundation among others. From 2003 to 2014, he was heavily involved in education, teaching classes and workshops on product design and front-end development. He's given masters and postgraduate courses at Elisava School of Design, Istituto Europeo di Design, Advanced Architecture Institute of Catalonia, IDEP Barcelona, Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla and Caldas University in Manizales among others. He has been invited, on numerous occasions, to speak at design festivals and universities around the world like OFFF, Blanc in Barcelona and Caldas University in Colombia. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Descript Jan 2025 – Present ### Senior Product Designer @ Descript Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Product Designer @ Oculus VR Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington Designed Oculus Browser in direct collaboration with product and development leads. Defined the product’s vision, shipped new features across the board and owned product areas like productivity, education and content discovery. ### Product Designer @ Meta Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park Led the UI Motion Design System for Facebook app. Designed new interaction patterns for key surfaces like News Feed on mobile and web. Led the design of several areas of Origami Studio, a prototyping tool used to design many of the products built at Meta. Created programs to elevate prototyping skills across Meta’s product design organization. ### Interaction Designer and UI Motion Design Lead @ Wire Swiss GmbH Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Berlin Area, Germany I was responsible for Wire's Motion Guideline, a reference document that defined the product’s motion language and provided a consistent personality to the user experience across different platforms. My role involved the ideation of new features, the design of the interactions, rapid prototyping, writing motion specs, and working closely with a team of 15+ front-end engineers reviewing their implementation to refine and create a consistent UX among multiple platforms. ### Interaction Director, Co-founder @ Aer - visual studio Jan 2002 – Jan 2015 Aer Studio specialized in digital interaction, innovation and optimizing digital strategies for web and mobile services. As studio manager, lead interaction designer and prototyper, I was responsible for the interaction design and front-end development of digital products and services. I designed and implemented apps for clients such as Nokia, Fjord, Telefónica R&D and Sonar Festival. ### Teacher in Master in Visual and Interactive Design @ IDEP BARCELONA Escuela Superior de Imagen y Diseño (UAO) Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Workshop about the process of Conceptualising and Prototyping a Digital Service ### Teacher in Master In Visual Information Design @ IED Istituto Europeo di Design Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Barcelona Area, Spain Taught subjects about Data Visualisation and Visual Design Principles. ### Teacher in Master in Digital Creative Business @ IED Istituto Europeo di Design Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Tough subjects about Processes and tools for product and service design, History of Video games and Gamification. ### Teacher in Master of Advance Architecture @ IAAC, Institute for Advance Architecture of Catalonia Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Tough course about Data Visualization ### Lead Teacher in Virtualizarte Workshops @ Universidad del Norte Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Barranquilla, Colombia Intensive 40h Workshops about the intersection of arts and science. We combined Systems Engineers and Visual Designers to work together in projects from the ideation phase to it’s final development. ### UI Motion Designer and Prototyper @ Nokia Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Helsinki, Finland UI motion designer and prototyper. ### Teacher in Master in Interface Design for Digital Products @ ELISAVA Jan 2003 – Jan 2008 Tough courses and workshops about Programming Fundamentals and Data Visualisation. ### Graphic Designer @ Mario Ruiz Design Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 Design and product development, furniture, lighting, office furniture and accessories. Formerly known as Costa Design ## Education ### Master's degree in Interface Design Elisava Escuela Superior de Diseño Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 ### Graphic and Industrial Design Stage EINA Escuela de Diseño y Arte Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 ### Engineer's degree in Industrial Design CEU Cardenal Herrera University Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 ### Nuestra Señora del Pilar Jan 1986 – Jan 1998 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cristobalcastilla - Portfolio: http://www.cristobalcastilla.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/cristobal JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/cristobal/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30