https://alfredogh.com/Recent content on Alfredo DesignHugoenMon, 29 Dec 2025 20:21:55 -0600https://alfredogh.com/work/Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:58:14 -0600https://alfredogh.com/work/<!-- Redirecs to home | Config in theme -->https://alfredogh.com/about/Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:43:24 -0600https://alfredogh.com/about/<p>I’m Alfredo Gutierrez, a product designer. Currently designing operational software for the surrogacy industry at <a href="https://www.orchidsoftsolutions.com/">Orchid Software Solutions</a>.</p> <p>Over the past 7 years, I&rsquo;ve helped scale startups and companies by developing custom, reliable software that streamlines business processes across healthcare, surrogacy, legal services, and government contracting industries.</p> <p>Outside of work, I’m passionate about surfing, music, learning languages, photography, traveling, and poetry.</p> <p>I share my thoughts and tutorials on design, projects, and personal life on my <a href="https://alfredogh.com/blog/">blog</a>. 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marketing strategies.</p>https://alfredogh.com/logs/Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:58:10 -0600https://alfredogh.com/logs/https://alfredogh.com/404.htmlSun, 28 Dec 2025 16:58:10 -0600https://alfredogh.com/404.html<div class="error-page"> <h1 class="error-code">404</h1> <p class="error-message">Page not found</p> <p class="error-description">The page you're looking for doesn't exist or has been moved.</p> <a href="https://alfredogh.com/" class="error-link">Go back home</a> </div>https://alfredogh.com/photos/Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:58:10 -0600https://alfredogh.com/photos/https://alfredogh.com/2025/12/27/ai-content-emotion-analyzer.htmlSat, 27 Dec 2025 23:01:18 -0600https://alfredogh.com/2025/12/27/ai-content-emotion-analyzer.html<p>Web design for Watsonfinds a sentiment analysis that predicts the evoked emotions by a piece of content.</p> <p>IBM was one of the first companies who started building solutions with artificial intelligence and I was amazed by this new approach, specially by the <a href="https://tone-analyzer-demo.ng.bluemix.net/?cm_mc_uid=38480465967815654102949&amp;cm_mc_sid_50200000=31230421565410294965&amp;cm_mc_sid_52640000=39140861565410294987">Tone Analyzer</a>.</p> <p>Inspired by this, Max Ortu and I, had the idea to create a sentiment analysis that could provide, to authors, copywriters and all kinds of content creators, insights about the emotional tones of their content and a way to determine the emotions that their audience may perceive as they read it.</p>https://alfredogh.com/2025/12/27/social-sentiment-dashboard.htmlSat, 27 Dec 2025 22:57:34 -0600https://alfredogh.com/2025/12/27/social-sentiment-dashboard.html<p>UX/UI design of a web app that tells social media influencers how people feel about their brands.</p> <p>A web app that works as a social media sentiment analysis tool to inform companies and influencers about how people feel regarding their brands by analyzing the emotional tone of the comments made by their audiences on their posts.</p> <p>The app will use AI to scan and analyze every comment made on a specific post and show the predominant emotion. This will allow influencers and large accounts to filter comments by emotions and reach out to individuals who may be having a challenging experience with their brand.</p>https://alfredogh.com/2025/12/27/govops-contractor-portal.htmlSat, 27 Dec 2025 22:48:10 -0600https://alfredogh.com/2025/12/27/govops-contractor-portal.html<p>UX/UI design of a web app that helps contractors find and manage government business opportunities.</p> <p>I was hired by FBO Biz to design a cloud-base solution that would bring a better way of managing and winning government contracts. </p> <p>The biggest challenge was that the public solicitations published by the government had lack of organization. That’s why my aim was to design a product where the user could easily find and bid on solicitations, and at the same time maintaining an organized workflow during the bidding process.</p>https://alfredogh.com/2022/05/01/my-alternative-solution-for-reverting.htmlSun, 01 May 2022 10:09:00 -0600https://alfredogh.com/2022/05/01/my-alternative-solution-for-reverting.html<p><img src="https://alfredogh.com/uploads/2025/final-1030x681.jpg" alt="final-1030x681.jpg"></p> <p>I use Adobe XD regularly for my full-time job, while Figma is my go-to for personal projects. Consequently, I’m eternally oscillating between these two apps on a daily basis.</p> <p>Having spent the whole day on Adobe XD, transitioning to Figma is somewhat peculiar due to the contrasting scrolling direction for zoom-in and zoom-out operations. Although neither direction seems inherently correct or incorrect, for some reason, Figma’s method appears more intuitive to me.</p>https://alfredogh.com/2018/03/26/more-posts-coming-very-soon.htmlMon, 26 Mar 2018 13:37:00 -0600https://alfredogh.com/2018/03/26/more-posts-coming-very-soon.html<p>I&rsquo;m currently working on this section and getting ready a couple of blog posts about UX design, tools, and productivity</p>