About

I'm Alexis.

A product designer who came to design the long way, through stages, cameras, and screenplays.

I’m a bilingual product designer based in San Diego. My work focuses on research, information architecture, and accessibility, particularly when people need clearer ways to find and use information.

Alexis Medina smiling outside, wearing a One Piece Straw Hat Crew shirt

Experience

Lead Product Designer

International Association for Geoscience Diversity
2025–2026

Led research and designed six reusable, accessible page types for IAGD’s resource-site redesign, delivered for implementation.

Product Designer

Good Samaritan Shelter
2025

Led service-discovery architecture for 55 programs, with map and search flows, accessibility patterns, and offline states for unreliable connectivity.

Product Designer

Cooley Comics LLC
2023

Co-designed the startup’s first website, owning the homepage and Digital Stories Lab sign-up pages while leading team communication and collaborating with an engineer.

Education

B.A. Film Studies — Digital Media Production

Pepperdine University
Minor in Marketing · Screenwriting focus

UX/UI Design Certification

Springboard
700+ hour course · Human-Computer Interaction

My story

Before product design, I explored acting, visual art, photography, and film. Studying film and screenwriting taught me to think about sequence, what someone needs at each moment, and how individual scenes build a larger story.

I discovered UX while looking for ways to apply that thinking to digital experiences. I started learning independently, then completed Springboard’s UX/UI design program to develop the practical skills I use today.

Let's talk!

Whether it's a role, a project, or a good design problem, I'd love to hear from you. Or honestly, just to recommend me a movie. I keep a running list and I take it very seriously.

Currently open to Product Designer and UX Designer roles

off the clock

When I'm not in Figma, you'll catch me deep in a film or a novel, lifting, collecting action figures, eating tacos, at the beach, or finding any excuse to see my family.

Current film recs

Constantly logging what I watch on Letterboxd.

Hamnet

Chloé Zhao · 2025

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Daniels · 2022

Eternals

Chloé Zhao · 2021

On my shelf

What I'm reading and re-reading.

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Simon Jimenez

The Odyssey

·   Currently reading
Homer
Lifting weights at the gym
Portion of my Marvel action figure collection
A plate of delicious tacos
At the beach with friends
My family together outside