
Paula Cepeda
About me
Interaction Designer, focused on design research, product conceptualization, motion and UX.
A bit too passionate about design, art, data, music, video, technology, education and how to shape the future through smart solutions that enrich society.
Currently based in Chile.
Education
2019 - 2020
Interaction Design
Exchange program
ELISAVA,
Barcelona, Spain
2017 - 2022
Interaction Design
Professional Undergraduate Degree
UDD,
Santiago, Chile
2012 - 2015
Musical Composition
Escuela Moderna de Música y Danza,
Santiago, Chile
Awards + Competitions
2021
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INDEX Awards finalist, Project Mapit | Copenhaguen
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Impacto Emprendedor, Banco de Chile + UDD, Project Mapit | Santiago, Chile
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Academic Excellence, UDD | Santiago, Chile
2020
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Antenna Conference, Nominee for World's best design graduate, Netherlands
2019
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Future Innovators Summit x Future Body Group x ARS Electronica Festival Linz, Austria
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Garage XR Technologies & L'Hospitalet among 3 winner projects | L'Hospitalet, Spain
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Impact Forum Speaker | Barcelona
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Smart City Expo World Congress, 2nd place project Gulú | Barcelona
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Academic Excellence, UDD | Santiago, Chile
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1st prize "Improving the Future", IED, Barcelona | Barcelona
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Ciutat Jugable, Elisava winner project x Design Museum | Barcelona
2018
2017
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Innovative Vision Prize, UDD | Santiago, Chile
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Leadership Award, UDD | Santiago, Chile
Work experience

March 2020 - Now
Smart City Link, Barcelona, España
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UX Designer | July 2020 - Now
UX designer for Link platform: software that allows governments to improve and transform their public services in real time, through citizen participation, the use of IoT, digital and social innovation.
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UX Design Intern | March 2020 - June 2020

PROJECT
RIPE Labs, RIPE NCC, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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UX Designer for RIPE Labs platform | March 2020 - July 2021
UX/UI design for RIPE Labs, social network for RIPE NCC, Regional Internet Registry and Coordination Center for Europe, Middle East and parts of Central Asia. Branding and brand image, graphic resources for dissemination, multiplatform web design, user experience, UX research, user testing, and platform implementation were developed.

March 2019 - Now
Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
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Teacher | March 2022 - Now
3rd year graphic Overall Project teacher.
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Assistantships | March 2019 - December 2021 (3 years)
Assistant in various courses, including: Design for Innovation, Programming, Audiovisual Production, Digital Tools and Techniques, Maker Campus, Design Theory.

PROJECT
Garage Stories - XR content Lab, Barcelona, España
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Garage Stories - XR content Lab Barcelona, España
Gulu Team Member | October 2019 - November 2019 (2 months)
Innovation laboratory with XR technologies for the development of narrative experiences with XR technologies (VR/AR/MR) that help raise awareness and disseminate the objectives of local non-profit entities to solve social and environmental challenges. Our project, Gulu, was exhibited at the Impact Forum Barcelona and the Smart City Expo World Congress.

PROJECT
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
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Future Innovators Summit Participant | September 2019
Annual Summit for Future Innovators, to strategize on solutions for the future. 15 future innovators chosen from different cultures, origins and from different fields (artists, designers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, social activists and philosophers), come together at the Ars Electronica Festival to explore new ways of Brainstorming on the crucial questions for humanity, and to create future scenarios.

Corporación de Educación y Salud de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
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Producción General de Festivales Municipalidad de las Condes abril de 2013 - diciembre de 2018 (5 años 9 meses)
Producción de eventos, realización de piezas gráficas, animadas, musicales y de dirección artísitca en diversos festivales, musicales y obras de teatro a realizar en el Teatro Municipal de Las Condes. Entre ellos, Festival Afina (Las Condes y Vitacura), Festibaila, Musical Escolar de las Condes, Musical Vecinal de las Condes, Musical Vecinal de lo Barnechea.

Henley SPA, Santiago, Chile
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Business Intelligence Design | August 2018 - June 2019 (11 months)
Design of Datamarts, Dashboards and Web.
REACH OUT
A bit too passionate about design, art, data, music, video, technology, education and how to shape the future through smart solutions that enrich society.
Let's work together on this.