Andres Clavijo smiling at the camera in glasses and a white shirt, leaning on his forearms with his hands clasped under his chin, a colourful tattoo sleeve on one arm, lit from the side against a black background.

I'm Andres Clavijo, a product design director in Austin, TX.I build and lead design teams, and I still ship my own products.

Product Design Director at HourlyDesign leader & builderAustin, TX

Work

A design system with a 1:1 coded twin I build with AI, onboarding cut to a self-serve session of under five minutes, and several pay schedules per account.

Leadership

I joined Hourly as its first designer and built the team. How I hire, coach and run the work.

Built with AI

Paletta and Popshot: zero-to-one products I design, build with AI and ship on my own.

About

Designing products since 2012. Banco Falabella, Fiserv, Vanti, and Hourly since 2018.

Selected work

The coded input in Storybook, framed in a browser window on an orange-to-magenta gradient: its full status matrix, neutral, hover, focus, error and disabled, empty and filled, in two sizes, with 0 accessibility violations and 15 passing checks.

The Hourly Design System

One system feeding web, iOS and Android

Hourly's payroll list with the schedule filter open, Weekly and Bi-Weekly checked, showing a due and a current payroll for each schedule, framed in a browser window on a blue gradient.

Multiple Pay Schedules

Several pay schedules per account, shipped on web and mobile

Hourly's onboarding welcome screen with its six-step progress bar, on a desktop monitor.

Customer Onboarding

From weeks of email to self-serve in under 5 minutes

How I lead

First designer in. Built the team after.

The principles I hire and run a team by.

Read how I lead →

1 to 5Designers at Hourly: from just me to five at the peak; two today

6 to 70+People at Hourly, as it grew

8 yrsLeading design at Hourly

Products, built with AI

Zero to one, designed and built solo

Products I make on my own time, from the first sketch to production, with AI as my engineering team.

Product shots framed with Popshot (opens in a new tab) ↗

Paletta

From one color to production design tokens. A zero-to-one SaaS I designed and built solo with AI, live with real users.

Live SaaS · Free + ProSee Paletta →

Popshot

Raw screenshots into polished, platform-sized visuals, in seconds. A zero-to-one product I designed and built solo with AI, live with real users.

Live · Free + ProSee Popshot →

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