Juan Ignacio is an Experience Designer from Costa Rica who sees design as the perfect platform to create rich and people-centred solutions. He takes from its various disciplines while maintaining a generalist core. His undergraduate work includes an ergonomically improved coffee-picking basket that aids one of Costa Rica’s oldest forms of labour, and an accessible play-based learning experience that encourages high school students to explore STEAM careers through hands-on robotics and embodied learning principles.

He has piloted an AR experience design start-up and a coffee brand start-up and he’s now going after new opportunities that will allow him to keep learning so that one day he may dive into projects with potential for social impact in areas such as healthcare, mobility, and education.

For 7 years, he gave his free time as a volunteer providing tutoring and safe play spaces for children from socially at-risk communities in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

At heart, he is highly creative, people-driven, and passionate about the little things in life, wanting to move between varied work to drive positive change. If missing, you will most likely find him catching a sunset or making friends with a stranger.