Chris Alvarez - Colorado Product Design Leader

Design Leader + Co-founder of RAD Summit

Design Leader + CoFounder of RAD Summit

Chris Alvarez

I help build amazing products and winning companies through design leadership, research, and education

I help build amazing products and winning companies through design leadership, research, and education.

Better Products

DESIGN + RESEARCH

I use research and data to inform human-centered solutions for real people

Better Teams

EDUCATION + CULTURE

I have a passion for teaching, design evangelism and improving teams and cultures

I have a passion for teaching, evangelizing design and improving teams and cultures

Better Companies

LEADERSHIP + VISION

I rally stakeholders and executives to towards achieving a shared vision

I rally stakeholders and executives towards achieving a common vision.

A few of my projects

Medtronic

Stealthstation S8

UX Design Lead | View Project ›

As design lead for this high-stakes project, I conducted generative research, led collaborative design workshops and helped produce a final design that resulted in delivery of this game-changing surgical navigation experience.

Derive Systems

Advantage X Desktop App

Solo Product Designer | Details Coming Soon...

Cars are really just computers... computers that breathe air and explode thousands of times a minute. With a lot to learn from both our customers and R&D team, I dove in head-first to redesign this Windows-based desktop application which allows custom tuners an intuitive way to modify vehicle performance.

Derive Systems

Advantage X Desktop App

Solo Product Designer

Did you know that cars are just big computers that breathe air and explode thousands of times a minute? With a lot to learn from both our customers and our developers, I dove in head-first to redesign this Windows-based desktop application which allows custom tuners an intuitive way to adjust vehicle performance.

Derive Systems

CES Consumer App Concept

Solo Product Designer | Details Coming Soon...

Our first push to market with our new IoT device was proving the concept at CES 2018. In a few days, I put together an interactive prototype that told the story of our product in the booth. I also worked with our mobile dev team to translate this design to a functional version that allowed live, in-vehicle media demos.

Derive Systems

CES Consumer App Concept

Solo Product Designer

Our first push to market with our IoT device was proving the concept at CES 2018. In a few days, I put together a fully functional prototype that would tell the story of our product in the booth, and worked with our mobile dev team to translate this design to a functional version that allowed live demos.

"If you change the way you look at things,

the things you look at change"

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Throughout my career, I’ve had the pleasure of working with these truly awesome companies ›