About Me

I’m Andrés Felipe Álvarez Barbosa (long name, I know), an automotive, transportation, and service UX designer. My work has taken me from mass transit ticketing to designing the services behind Mack and Volvo trucks.

I was born in Bogotá and grew up between Houston, London, and Bogotá, always fascinated by anything that moves. Moving between cities, I noticed that a vehicle could look completely out of place in one and just right in another. I realized vehicles are global products, but the good ones are designed for a specific place and the people in it. That’s why I became a designer.

I studied Industrial Design at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá and earned a Master of Science in Transportation Systems and Design from ArtCenter College of Design.

My career started at Moovel, a mobility startup backed by Daimler and BMW, where I designed hardware for a mobile ticketing system piloted by VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio. I then joined the Volvo Group, first at its Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley and then at Volvo Group Design North America. There, I designed the services that support trucks like the Mack Anthem and Volvo VNL, from maintenance to fleet management. I mapped how electric vehicle services need to work differently in Europe and North America, helped Volvo Autonomous Solutions define the services autonomous freight will require, and later took on a leadership role representing design across the studio.

Whether it’s hardware, an app, or a service, I start from the same question: does this fit the place and the people using it? As a bilingual designer who has lived and worked on both sides of the Americas and in Europe, I know how to design for different users, cultures, and markets.

I’m now looking for my next role in automotive, transportation, or service UX design, in mobility or in fields like logistics and energy, where complex systems have to work for real people. If that sounds like your team, let’s talk.