Mateo Yadarola

Designer is the job title. What I actually do is ask uncomfortable questions until something gets simpler.

I've been making interfaces since before it was a job. Most of what's below exists to stay curious.

Things I shipped for pay

  • Branches closed in March. The bank had to fit in a pocket. Bancor, 2020.
  • A 115-year-old paper asked readers what news was worth. La Voz del Interior, 2017.
  • A surgeon's hour costs more than paperwork. 112 forms became one conversation. OMSNIC, 2019.
  • Designers who never shared a room, sounding like one team. Agilent, 2009 to 2015.

Since 2002: SEO and conversion work, drones and satellites, a decade of fintech. Currently automating investment logic with AI.

Full record on LinkedIn →

Tools I built

  • Posta. A desktop Gmail client built around cards: each card is a saved search, and the inbox becomes a board.
  • Figma-CDP. A Claude Code skill that updates Figma to match your code, so the canvas stops describing what it used to be.
  • Trueframe. Hold your phone to your chest and it captures while you stay in the scene, keeping only the good frames.
  • Murmur. Voice chat, but weirder.
  • When. Movies find you instead.
  • Anchorify and Word Hugger. Two Figma plugins the community uses more than I do.

Annoyances I fixed

Most of my job is noticing what everyone agreed not to mention. These are the small ones.

  • Spoons. A folder of things macOS does wrong, and the Hammerspoon scripts that fix them. Fourteen so far.
  • ChronoMouse. Shows the time next to the cursor, where I'm already looking.
  • GmailTidy. An inbox that learns from what you ignore.
  • AppTidy. Forgotten apps close themselves.
  • AirNod. Look where you're going.

The rest is on GitHub →

Desktops I themed

Before product design had a name I knew, I was skinning LiteStep on DeviantArt. Pixel fonts, two-color wallpapers, a Windows machine pretending it wasn't one.

  • rust. Pre-aged on purpose. It will never look outdated.
  • orb. Start existed because people didn't know where to begin. This put the whole desktop behind one circle.
  • Iris2. The comeback nobody requested. Unfinished, like all good hobbies.

The gallery is still up →

Questions I'm chewing on

Some have answers already. Some don't yet.