May 2014 - Present
Ximena Vila Ferral
- @ximenavf
- San Antonio, Texas
- She/Her
Resume
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President, AIGA San Antonio
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
Designer, Astro
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Web Designer, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Portfolio
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Klasssy — A 48 Hour Film
New Year, New Job!
Creative Engineering with Mark Rober Started Mark Rober's course on Monthly.com with my 9 and 12-year-old nephews. I am looking forward to working on some new things but more than anything to see w...
Scrimba's Front-End Career Path Taking Scrimba's The Front-End Developer Career Path course. Starting from the basics with HTML, CSS, and JS to APIs and React.
Mechanical Keyboards
Keychron K6, Gitified Customized a new mechanical keyboard. ⌨️ Specs: This one is a Keychron K6 with lubed brown switches and Oblotzky SA Oblivion V2, Hagoromo Alphas with Git modifiers.
Built a Custom Mechanical Keyboard ⌨️ Specs: Cannon Keys Savage65 board w/ Holy Trash Pandas (put together, lubed, and soldered by yours truly), MiTo GMK Laser Keycaps. Completing the setup with an...
Writing
No one knows all the things It's easy to assume the people we look up to know everything, we forget we all have our own experiences and knowledge gaps. No one knows all the things (ximenavf.com)
First Blog Post Wrote the first blog post on my personal site as an intro to what I want to do and share on there. ¡Hola Mundo! (ximenavf.com)
Sketchnotes
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Sketchnote: Brad Frost @ Smashing Conf Let's Build a Design System
Sketchnote: Rémi Parmentier @ Smashing Conf Think like an email geek.
Sketchnote: Harry Roberts at Smashing Conf Milliseconds to millions, a look at the numbers powering web perf. “Move slow to move faster”
Sketchnote: Luke Wroblewski’s talk @ Smashing Conf User-Centered Design 1. Mind the Gaps 2. You are what you measure 3. Stay close to customers!
Design
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Be Bold Website
About UTSA Redesigned and launched the About suite of pages on the UTSA website that focus on telling the story of the university's past, present, and future.
Bold Champions: A New Era for UTSA Athletics Designed a landing page for UTSA's $70 million capital campaign that will help transform San Antonio into a destination for the nation's most competitiv...
Launched my blog on my site Happy New Year Y'all! We're actually off to a good start this year, all things considered. I've been wanting to put out a blog for a while now but I keep overthinking it...
AIGA
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Hosted an event with AIGA San Antonio Employed to Self Employed: A Conversation with Chris Johnston The AIGA San Antonio chapter had the opportunity to host documentary director, producer, editor, ...
Launched this year's AIGA Unidos website home page as we get ready for the Hispanic Heritage Talks 2021.
I had the pleasure to talk to the team at HITN (Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network), the largest Spanish-language public broadcasting network in the United States about AIGA Unidos...
Had the pleasure to talk to Lee-Sean Huang from AIGA's Design Future Now live show on Instagram about the new AIGA Unidos multi-chapter collaboration. My partners in crime Reina Castellanos and Dio...
Events
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AIGA Unidos | Hispanic Heritage Talks 2020 SALUD: Good Health and Design with Cesar Rivera Hosted an event with Cesar Rivera is an award-winning Graphic Designer, former Assistant Professor, AIGA N...
Hosted an event with AIGA San Antonio Fireside chat with Polywork Planned and hosted an online webinar were we chatted with Polywork CEO Peter Johnston and Head of GTM & Growth Meg Lyons, about the...
AIGA Unidos, Hispanic Heritage Talks 2020: Virtual Block Party (Kickoff event) Had the pleasure of hosting the kickoff event for AIGA Unidos' 2020 Hispanic Heritage Talks alongside organizers, Anth...
Café con Chisme: A Behind the Scenes Look at Hispanic Heritage Talks 2020 Midwest Design Week Talked at Midwest Design Week with Dio Jensen and Reina Castellanos about what it took to coordinate an...