Mikel Garcia — CV

Mikel Garcia

Product Designer & Design Engineer

Berlin, Germany

Founding designer across every company I've joined, owning design foundations, end-to-end product design, and design systems built directly in code, while also driving brand and growth. I turn complex, technical products into simple, expressive interfaces, and ship them. Musician and lifelong tinkerer with creative tools.

Experience

Founding Designer & Head of Marketing

DIA

Sole designer: owned product and brand design end-to-end (app, Oracle Playground, site, sub-brand) and built an AI-ready design system in code.

Business Development

CoachHub

Business development and go-to-market.

Designer & Marketing

BlockState

Sole designer: brand, website, product UI and investor decks.

Design & Marketing (Intern)

AiServe Technologies

Designed brand, website and product UI for an early-stage AI product.

Marketing Analyst (Intern)

DHL Express Spain

First role: marketing analysis and business-development support.

Selected freelance & studio work

Padelko

Designed and built a full production platform (school, tournaments, courts, shop, accounting) with a design system in code. 1,000+ users and 10+ staff run it daily.

Traube

Cofounder. Scaled the design system into code to accelerate agentic coding, and built the web and mobile apps.

Volea

Product design and front-end for a sports-club management platform.

Venesburger

Website for a burger restaurant in the Basque Country.

Uncommon Club

Website for a members' experiences platform.

Education

OTH Regensburg

European Business, Administration & Management

Double diploma (EN / DE).

Cámara Bilbao University Business School

Business Marketing & Management

Skills

Product designUI/UXDesign systemsPrototypingBrandArt directionFigmaAI-assisted buildAbleton LivePremiere ProAfter Effects

Languages Spanish · Basque · English · German

DIA

Long-running product & brand design for DIA, a platform that delivers real-time price data for stocks, ETFs, commodities, crypto and more, from the app to the homepage to a new sub-brand.

Role

Product & brand design

Year

2022–2024

Site

diadata.org

The 2026 chapter: a refreshed brand carried across the deck, the diadata.org site and a full redesign of the app, from the homepage promise to the data playground and per-feed detail pages, all sharing one confident visual language.

DIA 2026 — brand and homepageDIA 2026 — verifiable data stackDIA 2026 — data feedsDIA 2026 — app data explorerDIA 2026 — data playgroundDIA 2026 — feed overviewDIA 2026 — feed detail
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