About

This page is the more personal side of me: the things I read, the music I'm spending time with, and the values I work by.

Currently I live in Greater Málaga Metropolitan Area. Most days I'm working remotely from here — designing, writing, mentoring, and occasionally building something of my own. I've been doing this work for fifteen-ish years now: half of it learning the craft, half of it figuring out how to help other people do better work than I could on my own.

On-going Developments

Active

A few threads taking up most of my attention these days.

  1. Analog Home

    Side projectHardwareFamily OS

    A home system that limits Wi-Fi access during certain hours and runs the TV from a family server with scheduled shows — the way broadcast television used to work, where if a kid is eight minutes late, the show is already eight minutes in. Mobile phones go in a Faraday box; a separate corded, landline-style phone becomes the only way to take a call. Recreating a 1990s-style cadence between tech and family life, on purpose.

  2. Montroy™

    TypefaceSolo~33% complete

    My own typeface — a neo-geometric font with subtle grotesk details. Designing a face has been a long-running personal ambition. I started in 2024, then paused when work outside of it got heavy. The glyph set is about a third drawn. It moves forward whenever I find a quiet weekend with the right amount of coffee.

  3. MeetVenue

    SaaSBookingGoogle Calendar

    An embeddable booking app for conference rooms — pick a room, pick a duration, manage the booking from a clean UI. The backend resolves conflicts against a shared Google Calendar. The interesting layer is the suggestion engine: if you want room X for three hours but it's only free for one, the app proposes another room available for the full slot instead of an error.

  4. AI-Native Product Development Workflow

    WorkflowClaude CodeCursorVercelCodex

    A workflow built around AI-assisted coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Vercel, and Codex. Aimed at larger design teams: turn shared context into a reusable, structured knowledge base so designers, engineers, and PMs all build from the same understanding. The result is design engineering as a team-wide posture rather than a single role — less translation between design and dev, faster execution, stronger products, better revenue.

Guiding principles

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  1. Leadership & influence

    • 01you're responsible for the room
    • 02influence over authority
    • 03alignment and direction beats speed and grind
    • 04listen more than you speak
    • 05give context, not just feedback
    • 06people remember how you make them feel
    • 07protect people's time
    • 08create space for deep work

  2. Communication & trust

    • 09clarity over urgency
    • 10questions above statements
    • 11show up on time
    • 12do what you say you will

  3. Craft

    • 13design skill is a muscle, it needs constant stimuli
    • 14systems over solutions
    • 15ship at scale

  4. Mindset

    • 16work harder than you think you should
    • 17surround yourself with people who are better than you are
    • 18it's a marathon, not a sprint
    • 19consistency breeds excellence
    • 20think in loops, not lines

Inputs

Listening to

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Reading

  • The Staff Designer

    Catt Small

    Re-reading

  • The Coming Wave

    Mustafa Suleyman

    Finished

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    Yuval Noah Harari

    Finished

  • The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire

    Bart Van Loo

    Finished

  • John of Brienne: King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople

    Guy Perry

    Finished

Reach me

If you have any questions, article requests, you're looking for a mentor, or you just want to say “Hi”, feel free to reach out through a LinkedIn message or book a session with me at ADPList.