Juan Manuel Cornejo
Product, web, and a little bit of brand too.
23 years in
2003 to now
Quito, Ecuador
2.850 m, UTC-5
- Operator
2025 to now
IndependentMission control for working agents. Open source, macOS.
- Mantel
2025 to now
IndependentOperations for restaurants and bars. Running live in Quito.
- El Encanto
2025 to now
IndependentA wine garden in Quito. Brand, room, and the app that runs it.
- Photo Importer
2025 to now
IndependentOff the card, into folders I can find. No library, no cloud.
- Fastrack
2025 to now
IndependentA fasting tracker on the watch. The logo fills as the fast runs.
- Uwazi Design
2021 to 2025
HuridocsRebrand and platform redesign for Huridocs, in four tracks.
- The machine reads
2021 to 2025
HuridocsThe database reads its own documents. You accept or reject.
- Evidence Collection
2021 to 2025
HuridocsNot a screenshot: a page captured with its provenance.
- The Uwazi refactor
2021 to 2025
HuridocsEighteen months rebuilding the interface without stopping the work it carries.
- Railcar Management
2018 to 2021
LumenaltaA rail yard ran on paper. I replaced the printout with a screen.
- Independent
2025 to now
Quito, remoteProduct, brand, and web for teams working on complex, meaningful problems. Building my own tools in the gaps.
- Huridocs
2021 to 2025
Design lead, remoteLed design for Uwazi, the open-source human rights documentation platform used by 150+ organizations.
- Lumenalta
2018 to 2021
Senior designer, formerly ClevertechEnterprise software for Fortune 500 companies across logistics, fintech, and healthcare.
- Thoughtworks
2016 to 2018
Senior designerProduct design and workshop facilitation for consulting clients across Latin America. Quito, Santiago, São Paulo, Porto Alegre.
- Independent
2013 to 2016
Five countriesWebsites, brand identities, and print for clients in Ecuador, the UK, Spain, the USA, and Mexico, from pitch to delivery.
- Azendoo, Cycloboost
2010 to 2013
FranceRedesigned the full interface of a collaborative productivity startup. Before that, art direction for a cycling brand.
- Early web
2003 to 2010
Ecuador, FranceInteractive sites, CD-ROM presentations, Flash experiences, brand systems, and commercial video and sound for ad clients.
- Diary
The sketchbook
Newest firstParagraphs, phrases and collected quotes, as they were written.
- Borradores
The longer writing
In SpanishEach piece on its own page.
- Notes
Vocabularies and guides
For talking to people and to models.
- Juanmnl Quest
Theme, 2026
The portfolio as an 8-bit console game. Four worlds, a title screen, and a llama.
- The Room
Theme, 2026
A point and click bedroom, LucasArts rules. Every object is a piece of the work.
- Terminus
Theme, web
The portfolio as a terminal from 1985. Type commands to move around.
- Handwriting
Tool, 2026
Teaching myself a fast cursive that is still readable next week.
- Darkmatter
Library, 2026
A component library for agentic interfaces, in one file of plain CSS.
- All of it
The side quests
Where the site gets rebuilt for no good reason.
- About me
23 years
Quito, EcuadorI design digital products from strategy through production, and I'm at my best inside complex systems.
- How I work
Hands-on
Small teamsA prototype ships the same week the question comes up. The products on this site are designed and coded by me.
- Where
UTC-5
Spanish, English, FrenchBased in Quito. Working globally.
- Reach out
Open to part-time
remote rolesEmail is best. Tell me what the problem is and where it hurts.
- Email
hola@juanmnl.com
Open to part-time remote roles. I typically respond within 24 hours.
- LinkedIn
juanmnlcornejo
Quick questions.
- X
@_juanmnl
Quick questions.
- Instagram
@juanmnlcornejo
The photography.
- GitHub
juanmnl
The source of Operator and the rest.
