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Lucia Villacorta

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Product UI/UX Director at República, redesigning República.com and shaping digital and physical products.

Guatemala
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At República, I lead product UI/UX for a national digital news company, including the full redesign of República.com. I also guide creative direction across the company and its sub-brands, and design digital and physical products for República Intelligence.

At AL T-BLACK, I led end-to-end product design for clients in the US, UK and Europe. On Arcana, a fintech risk analytics platform, I designed from v1 through the company’s third funding round; the platform now powers 300+ institutions. I reframed the founders’ request for lots of color into a color system where every color carries meaning, and built a design system that helped the team ship new product pages in as little as a week.

For Westhill, I proposed separate customer and contractor products, with the contractor side growing into Westhill University, which I also designed. I also worked on healthcare products including Empass, where I presented on client calls and later served as creative director for the screens of a patient platform with an AI assistant. I teach Figma fundamentals and advanced techniques, including UI/UX best practices, prototyping and collaboration.

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Product UI/UX Director

República

Oct 2025 - Present (1 year)

Lead product UI/UX for a national digital news company, including the full redesign of República.com. Own creative direction across the company and its sub-brands, and design digital and physical products for República Intelligence.

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Universidad Francisco Marroquín

Jun 2022 - Nov 2022 (5 months)

Taught Figma fundamentals and advanced techniques, covering UI/UX best practices, prototyping, and collaboration.

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Universidad Francisco Marroquín

Degree, Digital Interactive Design

2016 - 2020

Pursued a degree in Digital Interactive Design from 2016 to 2020.

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