Rafael Morales
Staff Product Designer · Fintech

Money, made simple.Trust by design.

14 years designing financial products for Latin America. Payments, credit, crypto, corporate cards, ecommerce.

Aplazo cards screen in hand against a colourful mural
A couple unboxing online orders at home
Clara supplier payments on a laptop
Aplazo credit checkout on a phone resting on a chair
Bitso app lit by coloured light
Aplazo onboarding screen on a phone on a blue surface
Where I've worked
AplazoClaraBitsoBBVATeradataVolarisPriceTravel
Selected work

Financial products.
Made effortless.

A customer pays in a store with the Aplazo app
2026

Aplazo

Product Design LeadBNPL in stores

Pay later. Right at the counter.

Paying in store meant waiting for a code by SMS. Weak signal broke it. So we took the phone out of the equation.

Physical card. Credit, in your wallet.

Customer ID. No code. No signal needed.

Preloan. Approved before you arrive.

Aplazo TPV. One terminal for merchants.

Clara app in a hand against a blue perforated wall
2022 to 2024

Clara

Design DirectorCorporate payments

Enterprise controls. Startup simplicity.

Enterprise finance teams needed approvals, card controls and supplier payments. We built them in, and kept Clara simple for small teams.

Approval flows. Multi-step, built your way.

Card controls. Every team. One place.

ERP integrations. Accounting, connected.

International payments. Suppliers abroad, paid.

Bitso trading chart on a phone held in someone's lap
2019 to 2022

Bitso

Head of DesignCrypto

Crypto for everyone.

People verified, then stopped. The problem was trust, not forms. So we built one app that grows with you, from first deposit to pro trader.

Learning path. Confidence before the first deposit.

Buy and sell. Simple from day one.

More products. Unlocked as you grow.

Pro mode. One tap to the full platform.

About

Money is personal.
So is the user experience.

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I'm Rafael. I design financial products people trust. For people, and for the businesses that serve them.

Seven years leading global design teams of up to 35. Always a hands-on leader. Building with AI every day now.

  1. AplazoProduct Design Lead2026–now
  2. TeradataDesign Program Manager2024–2026
  3. ClaraDesign Director2022–2024
  4. BitsoHead of Design2019–2022
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Insight

Hours of interviews and data, synthesized with AI in minutes. More time with people. Less with spreadsheets.

Design

More options, explored faster. Each one pressure-tested against the data. The call stays human.

Vision

AI-native systems and workflows that let a team scale. Fast to prototype. Ready to ship.

Let's talk.

Open to leadership and Staff or Principal product design roles.
Contact me to access in-depth case studies.

rafaelmcovarrubias@gmail.com