New Relic
Product Design Manager · Infrastructure & Observability
Leads a global design team across the US, Europe & India; shipped AI Monitoring and other 0-to-1 initiatives.
Alex Atienza
I design systems that make complex software feel obvious — and lately, I’m asking what that means when the software can think back.
I’m a product designer in Portland, Oregon. Sixteen years in, I still believe the best design work is mostly editing — removing until only the true thing is left.
I’ve spent most of my career on design systems and the unglamorous infrastructure of good software. Now I’m turning that same rigor toward AI: not demos, but the quieter question of how people learn to trust a machine’s judgment.
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EXPERIENCE · SINCE 2007
Cvent
Lead Product Designer · Design Systems
Scaled the design system as ambassador; shaped the vision for Cvent Studio and Attendee Hub.
Comscore
User Experience Lead · Design Systems
Founded Forge; led 6 designers reimagining Comscore’s National & Local TV products.
Wind River
User Experience Lead · IoT · contract via Amplified by Design
Led design for Helix Device Cloud, Wind River’s enterprise IoT platform.
ZeniMax / Bethesda
Senior UX Designer · Games & Platform
The Elder Scrolls Online (PC/Xbox/PS4) and Bethesda.net’s digital-distribution platform.
Social Security Administration
User Experience Designer · Design Systems
Co-led the User Experience Framework behind 12+ applications; grew its pattern library to 150 patterns for 30+ UI designers.
Traffipax
Software Developer · Network Admin
Designed and built the interface for the Traffic Incident Processing System; ran its network and client support.
University of Washington
Human–Computer Interaction