Rod Del Castillo Austin ⇄ CDMX

Product design for complex systems.

I help teams turn ambiguous product spaces into clear, shippable interfaces.

My work sits where product strategy, systems design, interface craft, motion, and brand expression meet.

Featured Projects

A browser console for IT teams to manage entire HP device fleets.

A cloud console for IT admins to manage entire fleets of HP Thin Clients from a browser — enrollment, policy enforcement, compliance monitoring, and automated remediation at scale.

HP Wolf Cloud Endpoint Manager cover — the cloud console dashboard for managing HP Thin Client fleets.

Halyard AI
Voice Agent

A voice-first field agent for wind-turbine technicians,
built for safety-critical work at height.

A voice-first field agent for wind technicians, centered on confirmation patterns that keep safety-critical procedures from advancing on ambiguous speech.

Halyard cover — a wind-turbine technician using the voice-first Halyard field agent, its screen showing fault-history records.

Lucid Motors CX Portal

A connected ownership experience for Lucid's luxury electric cars.

Customer-experience strategy and product design for Lucid's EV launch — reframing a website redesign as the design of an ownership relationship, from discovery to delivery.

Lucid Motors CX Portal case study cover — the connected ownership experience for the Lucid Air luxury EV.

University of Michigan

A ground-up redesign of UM's College of Pharmacy portal.

A large University of Michigan site rebuilt end to end — research through interface — that doubled PharmD applications and won Gold at the 2025 Education Digital Marketing Awards.

HP Elite Earbuds

The Windows OS companion app for HP's wireless Elite earbuds.

A systray-resident Windows companion app for HP's wireless earbuds — at-a-glance battery and connection status without opening the full app, plus deeper audio personalization on demand.

HP Elite Earbuds Windows OS app cover — the systray-resident companion app for HP's wireless earbuds.

DropLove

Real-time tipping that lets fans support DJs during their live sets.

Real-time tipping for DJs, built for the moment fans feel the music — scan a QR code, send a tip in seconds, and help artists earn from live sets without an awkward ask or a paywall.

DropLove cover — real-time tipping for DJs, sending a tip from a phone in seconds.

Recent Works

Meridian

Fintech

Treasury intelligence for CFO teams, built around honest data states that make fragmented cash visibility usable under time pressure.

0 → 1 Product Design

Folio

Consumer Finance

Personal finance for people who avoid finance apps — calm, non-judgmental, and designed around small decisions instead of shame.

Product Design

Dazz

Cloud Security

A cloud-security launch system that turned a complex remediation platform into a clearer, more human product story across UI, motion, and web.

UI & Motion Design

DigitalOcean

Cloud Infrastructure

A post-IPO brand refresh that consolidated a fragmented visual system into a clearer, digital-first identity built around "Get growing."

Brand & Digital System

Practice Pillars

Clarify the Problem

I separate signal from noise, frame the real decision to make, and narrow the work toward the version that can actually ship.

Prototype in the Product's Medium

I move between canvas and code so typography, motion, interaction, and system decisions are tested where they actually live.

Use AI to Increase Throughput

I use AI across research, prototyping, QA, and documentation to move faster, pressure-test decisions, and extend what a small team can produce without handing judgment to the tools.