I'm Felipe Linares

I'm Felipe Linares

A product designer leading design teams and creating digital products. 15 years and now AI native.

My work

Check out some recent projects, or visit my portfolio for more.

Flintune, vibe-coded pro tunner

Vibe Coding

Professional-grade instrument tuner and metronome. A single 4-hour session using Google AI Studio

Designing & re-designing a micro-loans app for +10K hispanic & latinos

Vibe Coding

Professional-grade instrument tuner and metronome. A single 4-hour session using Google AI Studio

Flintune, vibe-coded pro tunner

Vibe Coding

Professional-grade instrument tuner and metronome. A single 4-hour session using Google AI Studio

Designing & re-designing a micro-loans app for +10K hispanic & latinos

UX/UI Design

Designing & re-designing a micro-loans app for +10K hispanic & latinos

UX/UI Design

Engaging education with AI

UX/UI Design - 🧑‍💻 In progress

Discover how our AI-powered app transforms learning with short, interactive lessons, real-time feedback, and flexible, adaptive features.

Engaging education with AI

UX/UI Design - 🧑‍💻 In progress

Discover how our AI-powered app transforms learning with short, interactive lessons, real-time feedback, and flexible, adaptive features.

Designing a fintech solution for +1M homebuilders

UX/UI Design

Designing a fintech solution for +1M homebuilders

UX/UI Design

Designing a crypto wallet for +100K non-crypto families

UX/UI Design

Designing a crypto wallet for +100K non-crypto families

UX/UI Design

Insights & Inspiration

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News

When the Interface Builds Itself: ChatGPT's New UI and the Designer's Next Job

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Intelligent UI generates interactive interfaces live. Here's what generative UI actually changes for product designers, and what to do now.

A single coral-red beam entering a dark prism and emerging as several ordered three-dimensional forms on a near-black background, representing generative UI composing an interface from one request.

News

When the Interface Builds Itself: ChatGPT's New UI and the Designer's Next Job

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Intelligent UI generates interactive interfaces live. Here's what generative UI actually changes for product designers, and what to do now.

A flat wireframe rectangle extruding upward into a solid 3D block with a coral-red leading edge on a dark background, representing vibe coding turning a designer's flat design into a working thing.

AI & Vibe Coding

What Vibe Coding Actually Means for Designers

Vibe coding won't turn designers into engineers. Here's what it actually changes about how designers work, from someone who shipped a real app this way.

A flat wireframe rectangle extruding upward into a solid 3D block with a coral-red leading edge on a dark background, representing vibe coding turning a designer's flat design into a working thing.

AI & Vibe Coding

What Vibe Coding Actually Means for Designers

Vibe coding won't turn designers into engineers. Here's what it actually changes about how designers work, from someone who shipped a real app this way.

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Accessibility & Inclusive Design

How to Build Accessible Dark Mode (WCAG Contrast Done Right)

Dark mode isn't automatically accessible. Here's how to hit WCAG contrast ratios, skip pure black, and build a dark theme people can actually read.

A vertical ladder of charcoal-to-gray tonal swatches on a dark background with one coral-red line marking where the tone becomes legible, representing the WCAG contrast threshold in dark mode.

Accessibility & Inclusive Design

How to Build Accessible Dark Mode (WCAG Contrast Done Right)

Dark mode isn't automatically accessible. Here's how to hit WCAG contrast ratios, skip pure black, and build a dark theme people can actually read.

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Design Systems & Collaboration

Designer-Developer Handoff: It's Not a Tools Problem

he designer-developer gap gets blamed on tools. After 15 years shipping products, I think that's wrong. It's a handoff and collaboration problem first.

A coral-red relay baton suspended between two reaching hands that don't quite meet, representing the designer-developer handoff treated as a relay race.

Design Systems & Collaboration

Designer-Developer Handoff: It's Not a Tools Problem

he designer-developer gap gets blamed on tools. After 15 years shipping products, I think that's wrong. It's a handoff and collaboration problem first.

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Let's talk

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All trademarks, logos, and brand names are the property of their respective owners. All company, product, and service names used on this website are for identification purposes only. Use of these names, trademarks, and brands does not imply endorsement.

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