John Rodrigues

Product Designer | Author | Top 10 Mentor on ADPList

Crafting Interactions Between People and Technology

Hello, my name is John, a product designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area 🌉. For over 7+ years, I've been designing end-to-end user experiences for millions of users. I'm a designer, author, and educator, focusing on design direction, interaction design, prototyping, and design systems.

Hello, my name is John, a product designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area 🌉. For over 7+ years, I've been designing end-to-end user experiences for millions of users. I'm a designer, author, and educator, focusing on design direction, interaction design, prototyping, and design systems.

My Story

From childhood, I've been driven by solving problems and creating things people love. This passion led me to pursue engineering and design, where I make an impact through my work and help companies achieve business growth.


Throughout my decade-long career in the product and design industry, I've mentored numerous designers and was honored to be recognized as a top 10 mentor on ADPList.

Mentored designers from top companies

My Story

From childhood, I've been driven by solving problems and creating things people love. This passion led me to pursue engineering and design, where I make an impact through my work and help companies achieve business growth.


Throughout my decade-long career in the product and design industry, I've mentored numerous designers and was honored to be recognized as a top 10 mentor on ADPList.

Mentored designers from top companies

  • I’m just grateful to John for some great coaching he did with me recently and wanted to spread the love for his book.

    Dan Mall

    Founder @DSU

  • I had the pleasure of working with John through multiple projects and product launches. John’s attention to detail and dedication to systematizing processes were crucial for high-speed growth. His user-centric design principles ensured correct prioritization and influenced decision-making

    Tyler J Cagle

    Product Manager @Toca

  • John loves what he does, and that translates into someone who works exceptionally well with clients and customers John has great expertise in building MVPs, UI, and modern applications.

    Steven Reubenstone

    CE0 @Collaborizm

  • John is perhaps one of the most visionary designers I have ever worked with. He has an uncanny ability to translate vision into reality. He enjoys ushering a vision to completion and won’t stop until the job is done.

    Lance Rocker

    Journalist @New York Times

  • I’m just grateful to John for some great coaching he did with me recently and wanted to spread the love for his book.

    Dan Mall

    Founder @DSU

  • I had the pleasure of working with John through multiple projects and product launches. John’s attention to detail and dedication to systematizing processes were crucial for high-speed growth. His user-centric design principles ensured correct prioritization and influenced decision-making

    Tyler J Cagle

    Product Manager @Toca

  • John loves what he does, and that translates into someone who works exceptionally well with clients and customers John has great expertise in building MVPs, UI, and modern applications.

    Steven Reubenstone

    CE0 @Collaborizm

  • John is perhaps one of the most visionary designers I have ever worked with. He has an uncanny ability to translate vision into reality. He enjoys ushering a vision to completion and won’t stop until the job is done.

    Lance Rocker

    Journalist @New York Times

Published 50+ Figma Lessons

50+ Lessons

10+ Modules

Advanced Figma course covering foundation to advanced topics, such as Auto Layout, variables, design systems, scalable components, advanced prototyping, and more. Ideal for industry professionals.

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Authored Landing Design Job with Confidence book

80% cohort success rate

147+ Pages

A book for designers to help them land their next design job with confidence. This 147-page book is based on mentoring over 250+ designers, running 2 successful cohorts with 80% success rate, and John's 7+ years of experience.

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Nadja H

Career Coach

Your book is great! I ordered and read it and there’s some pure gold in it! I work with clients who are feeling stuck in their UX career but many of them just need to change their job before they are ready to work with, so I recommend your book to them!

Yariela

Product Designer at Google

Yay!!! Thank you John! You literally explained auto layout today so effortlessly. I understand it more now than ever before. I’m considering taking your course, so I can take my Figma skills up a notch."

Dan Mall

@Founder DSU

I’m just grateful to John for some great coaching he did with me recently and wanted to spread the love for his book.

Mia T

Product Designer @Play

“Hey John, I followed the exact things you mentioned last time and I passed the portfolio round! I was quite surprised actually, but your feedback were life saving”

Lucas W

Product Designer @Apple

Had an amazing chat with John 😊 We exchanged some interesting resources and talked about the importance to understand the value of a designer. Would stay in touch and excited to talk again soon!

Claudia K

@Hack for LA

John is a fantastic instructor, providing concise feedback and opportunities for students to grow as designers. Whether you're new to UX or have experience.

Core Stregnths

Core Stregnths

Mobile App Design

Mobile App Design

iOS

Android

Hybrid Apps

SaaS and Web App Design

SaaS and Web App Design

Data heavy Dashboard

Design System

Design System

Atomic Design System

System Thinking

Interaction Design & Prototyping

Interaction Design & Prototyping

Advanced Prototyping

Product Strategy

Product Strategy

Growth Design

UX Research

Product Market Fit

Front end development

Front end development

HTML

CSS

Javascript

SwiftUI

My Tool Box

My Tool Box

Along with research and product discovery, I leverage modern tools to translate vision and direction. These include Figma, ProtoPie, and code. However, my greatest assets are my problem-solving abilities and communication skills.

Figma

Protopie

Play

Notion

Trello

Jira

Framer

HTML/CSS

Javascript

SwiftUI

Experiments & Exploration

Experiments & Exploration

Concept made with Protopie

Uber dynamic island concept made in Figma

Made with SwiftUI

Delivered 50+ Talks & workshops

I talk about career growth, design & Innovation

Delivered 50+ Talks & workshops

I talk about career growth, design & Innovation

Delivered 50+ Talks & workshops

I talk about career growth, design & Innovation

www.john-rodrigues.com

www.john-rodrigues.com

www.john-rodrigues.com

www.john-rodrigues.com

www.john-rodrigues.com