Solomon Padilla
Sr. Product Designer · UX / UI
Summary
Product designer with 15+ years shipping digital products across nonprofit, hospitality, and commercial real estate. I work from evidence — audits, interviews, and analytics — and turn it into information architecture, wireframes, and interfaces that teams can actually build. Recent work spans donation and checkout flows, map and data-heavy interfaces, and cross-platform mobile apps.
Experience
Sr. Product Designer
- Redesigned the map filtering system for a commercial real estate data platform, lifting feature discoverability 40% and task completion 35%.
- Cut user error rates 25% and raised post-task satisfaction 45% by restructuring filter logic and clarifying applied-filter states.
- Replaced accordion patterns with scannable cards and rebuilt data-visualization controls across heatmap, bubble, and logo views.
Sr. UI/UX Designer
- Designed across four web applications plus brand email, social, and campaign work for a faith-based media company.
- Helped formulate the UX/UI and marketing operations process for a newly created internal team, from concept through execution.
- Contributed to tech-stack selection and to how the team defined its customer and their journey.
Lead Product Designer
- Led design for owner-facing vacation ownership products across a large hospitality portfolio.
Sr. UI/UX Designer
- Redesigned the Owner's Lounge member portal, increasing self-service bookings 28% and reducing support calls 35%, with average owner satisfaction of 4.6/5.
- Ran 12 owner interviews and analysed three months of support chat logs; mapped a seven-step journey to locate where trust broke down.
- Designed a cross-platform iOS and Android travel app; user retention rose 38% and daily active users 45% within three months of launch.
Selected projects
- Reasons to Believe — donate section (Phase 2). UX audit, IA, wireframes, and copy deck consolidating two contradictory giving forms into one, with five education pages feeding it. Pre-launch.
- datacenterHawk — map filtering. Filter IA and visual system for a spatial data platform built on ArcGIS.
- Welk Resorts — Owner's Lounge. Member portal redesign spanning four backend systems: CRM, booking engine, rewards API, and support portal.
- Experiences by Welk — travel app. Cross-platform trip discovery and planning for iOS and Android.
Education
- Colorado State University–Pueblo Graphic Design
- Pueblo Community College Visual Communications
- Calvary Chapel Bible College — California & Spain Associate’s, Theology
Capabilities
Tools
Domains
What colleagues say
“He's got a rare combination of competency and humility that make him able to latch on to someone else's vision and execute (really quickly) at a high level.” Philip Wright · Igniter Media
“Solomon was a steady presence of calmness, curiosity, and creativity. He excels at thinking through ideas from the ground up and shaping abstract concepts into thoughtful, well executed designs.” Matt Jeffery · datacenterHawk