# Elmer Barrera > Product Design at Airtable Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/elmerbarrera ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Airtable Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA ### Senior Experience Designer @ Adobe Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area Designing AI-first workflows, launching growth experiments and maintaining the Acrobat Mobile component library Refactored the Photoshop Mobile component library ### Experience Designer 2 @ Adobe Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 Redesigned the share workflow for Acrobat on iOS and Android, which led to a 300% increase in monthly active usage. Collaborated with Microsoft to design a framework for Acrobat Reader on foldable devices. Launched in time for the release of the Microsoft Surface Duo Shipped first version of the Document Generation API playground. ### Experience Designer @ Adobe Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Designed four premium actions for Acrobat Mobile which account for 12.6% of paid user conversions– - Password protection - PDF to image - PDF compression - File combination Contributed to a semantic color system to support dark and high contrast modes on Android ### Product Design Intern @ Facebook Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park Worked on the Advertiser Support Products team to design features centered around transparency for Facebook Business Support Hub and Messenger. ### Instructional Assistant @ University of California San Diego Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 On the teaching staff for Dr. David Kirsh’s upper division design courses - COGS 187A Usability and Information Architecture - COGS 187B Practicum in Professional Web Design Assisting in course preparation, providing design feedback, and grading student assignments ### Advisor @ Design at UCSD Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 An open community of aspiring designers seeking to inspire creative confidence, and ease students into industry Reached out to design alumni and industry professionals to coordinate pre-professional events Led design thinking and prototyping tools workshops with 40+ attendees Designed wireframes and visual comps for the organization's first website ### Product Design Intern @ Workday Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Pleasanton, CA Worked on the Payroll, Time, and Absence team to design a mobile dashboard for better informed time off requests Collaborated with product manager and senior designers to define project scope and identify design opportunities Conducted generative research studies and usability tests to make data-informed design decisions Prototyped hi-fidelity interactive concepts to communicate ideas to stakeholders Pitched hackathon project to executives. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Division of Biomedical Informatics Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | University of California, San Diego NSF-funded project focused on developing an unobtrusive awareness system to help Latino families improve family routine. Facilitated interviews with Spanish-speaking parents to identify unmet needs and design opportunities. Presented findings from digital ethnography and academic literature review. Abstract "SHINE-L: Sensing Health and Family Behavior Routines for Latino Families" accepted for CHI 2017 ### Design Research Intern @ University of California, San Diego - The Design Lab Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Worked with industry partners SAP and Planet3 on behalf of the design research hub led by Dr. Don Norman Conducted user interviews and competitive analysis to develop insights for both project partners Worked on interaction design and visual design for a high-fidelity prototype and pitched to stakeholders ### User Research Analyst @ YouEye—a UserZoom company Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Analyzed ethnographic video data to better understand users’ behaviors and their perceptions of various digital products. ### Student Liaison @ Escondido Education COMPACT Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Surveyed an underserved area in my hometown to uncover solvable problems. Presented findings to city council and community organizations that led to crosswalk revisions in the neighborhood and the commencement of a community garden. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Cognitive Science, Specialization in Human-Computer Interaction UC San Diego ### Humanities/Humanistic Studies Lund University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elmerbarrera - Portfolio: https://www.elmer.world --- Source: https://flows.cv/elmerbarrera JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/elmerbarrera/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13