Hi, I’m Juan Ruitiña, a product designer (UX) based in Madrid. I design taking into account research, best practices, and a pinch of intuition. I believe in digital services that do good and are considerate to users and society.
Since 2022 I am a User Experience (UX) Designer at Canonical, the company behind the open source operating system Ubuntu. There, I am part of the team working on Ubuntu Desktop.
Before that, I contributed to the team managing all public-facing websites. There I led the overhaul of the CVE vulnerability database.
I was UX designer and digital project manager at the European Council on Foreign Relations from 2019 to 2022.
There I worked to improve the user experience of their digital products and optimise them for better performance and accessibility. I also designed a friendly chatbot called Atlas and created a set of guidelines for accessible data visualisation.
I worked for two years at El Orden Mundial, the most followed magazine on foreign affairs in Spanish. I fully redesigned their website and implemented a paywall in 2018.
As digital communications assistant at the Elcano Royal Institute, I designed and developed over 10 web dossiers on current affairs: Brexit, Trump, Catalonia, and more.
In 2020 I brought a little fire demon to life to get info on indoors air quality. A Raspberry Pi, some sensors, and some Python code were the ingredients.
This web essay, submitted as my degree’s final project in 2015, assessed if subsidies worked in preparing the mining areas in Northern Spain for the closure of its coal pits. Spoiler alert: they didn’t.
In 2013 I attended an inspiring conference with GOV.UK’s team as an intern. After that, I proposed a homepage revamp for the Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs, later implemented.