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Life is a user experience

My name is Cris Menéndez and I am a User Experience Designer.

I was born and raised in northern Spain, where I went to college to study economics. There I met my former partner, who is Swiss, and two years later I found myself in Switzerland improving my German and seeking employment.

After some freelancing that included teaching Spanish and designing websites, I found my first permanent job as a technical assistant. At that company, I was introduced to the software testing world, and from there I found the yellow brick path toward my position as test manager at Avaloq, where I stayed for seven years.

At the end of 2013, I felt that I needed to change something in my life and decided to do so. That change involved going back to study. Now I have a Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Human Computer Interaction Design and work as a User Experience Designer in Zurich.

In my spare time, I enjoy reading and writing about what I read. I do that for the online Spanish magazine El Templo de las Mil Puertas or in Goodreads. I also like to spend my time watching Korean dramas, doing handicrafts, or organizing stuff. Occasionally, you might find me doing sports, like Pilates or swimming, but that's a very rare sighting.

Furthermore, I also help to organize the World Usability Day Switzerland and was a co-founder of the UX meetup in Basel. I used to work too as a volunteer at the Frontend Conference in Zurich.

If you look for me on the internet, you might find me in these other places:

LinkedIn

Instagram

These are some of the works I've done in the last couple of years. I'm currently working on more case studies. Stay tuned for more!

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