Carlos Palacio
@carlospalacio
Product Designer specializing in motion systems and interaction design for clear, confident digital experiences.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I specialize in motion systems and interaction design—defining how products behave and using motion as a functional layer that improves clarity, usability, confidence, and trust. Over the last decade across Google, Meta, and Coinbase, I’ve designed interaction behaviors and onboarding experiences that help people understand and navigate complex digital products.
I enjoy partnering with product, research, and engineering teams to transform ambiguous ideas into intuitive, scalable experiences. At Meta, I led the Motion chapter for Facebook Blueprint and saw adoption grow from approximately 30% to 80% across product teams; at Coinbase, I designed UX motion across onboarding, navigation, and financial transactions and built reusable motion patterns, components, and production-ready Rive animations; earlier at Google, I delivered North Star prototypes and a motion guidelines site used by multiple teams.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Designed UX motion across onboarding, navigation, and financial transactions, improving clarity and confidence throughout unfamiliar onchain interactions.
Built reusable motion patterns, components, and production-ready Rive animations that established consistency and accelerated implementation.
Partnered with Product Design, Engineering, and Research to prototype, validate, and deliver interact
Designed motion systems, interaction patterns, and implementation guidance across Facebook products and design foundations.
Led the creation of the Motion chapter for Facebook Blueprint, defining principles for transitions, interaction, timing, easing, and reusable motion tokens while contributing to the Spacing and Grid chapters.
Helped transform Blueprint into a practical resource connecting f
Designed interaction models, motion systems, and North Star prototypes for Google Search, Google Lens, and global brand-launch experiences.
Developed the interaction model and motion language for the Google Lens North Star prototype, introducing visual affordances that communicated system attention, recognition, growing confidence, and readiness to act.
Designed UX motion for complete Google Ima
Created motion and interaction design for digital product pitch films that transformed static visual directions into cohesive product experiences.
Working from visual comps created by the design team, designed all motion and key interaction behaviors for a proposed Lexus.com redesign, including navigation, vehicle browsing, comparison, and customization.
Designed all UX motion for a proposed
Senior Interactive Developer
Fantasy Interactive
May 2011 - Aug 2011 (3 months)
Worked as a Senior Interactive Developer at Fantasy Interactive, focusing on interaction design.
Worked as a Senior Interactive Developer focusing on interaction design.
Worked as a Lead Designer in Technology Enablement, contributing to interaction design efforts.
Motion Design and Development.
Creative Team Member
Confess-It.com
Jan 2006 - Jan 2007 (1 year)
Creative team member at Confess-It.com, working on interface design and programming as well as sound design.
interface design & programming, sound design
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
School of Visual Arts
Advance ActionScript
Art Institute of Philadelphia
Web Design & Interactive Media
Pratt Institute
MFA, Digital Arts
2004 - 2009
School of Visual Arts
Advanced ActionScript 3, ActionScript 3
Completed advanced ActionScript 3 study at the School of Visual Arts.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Portfolio
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