Alpha Beta Design · Studio of Alfonso Barreiro
Portland, Oregon
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Founders shipping what's next, small businesses and nonprofits modernizing what they outgrew, product teams without a sitting designer, and Series A teams bringing a fractional design lead in before the first full-time hire.
Before this studio: Director of Marketing & DTC Operations at VARA Winery (rebuilt the e-commerce platform), and VP of Operations at Boomtime, leading the team that shipped UX/UI work for 100+ client sites across healthcare, legal, hospitality, and e-commerce.The full bio
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What's unusual here
Every package has a price on the page. No discovery call needed to get a number.
Brand systems with the system around them. Next.js builds, not template platforms.
Client-fluent in English and Spanish — scoping calls, async writing, handoff docs.
Director-level ops at VARA and Boomtime — 100+ sites shipped before this studio opened.
Product UI/UX · 2026
A daily-workout flow designed end to end. 11 screens, 14 transitions, every edge state documented before the happy path was finished.
Designed to testA daily-workout flow where the failure paths (paywall, no connection, paused, empty) feel as deliberate as the happy path.
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Design Systems · 2026
The production design system behind every ABD client build. 120 components, 15 color tokens, four output formats. Built so the studio doesn't restart on every project.
OutcomeThe system that compiles every ABD client site in this portfolio.
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Product UI/UX · 2024
End-to-end product redesign for a niche travel-planning platform.
Designed to testA progressive-disclosure onboarding for a dual-audience product, designed against a constraint of zero disruption for power users while opening the front door for first-time visitors.
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Brand & Identity · 2026
A brand system for a quiet coastal hotel on the Norwegian fjords, built to scale from a business card to a building seal without picking up volume.
Designed to testA brand system that holds its register from a business card to a building seal.
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Web Design & Build · 2026
Growth, a high-density marketing site for a Series A SaaS. Twelve sections, six interactive components, full content strategy.
Designed to testA high-density section IA that holds attention past the fold, scroll-driven motion inside a 200ms LCP budget, and conversion-led copy hierarchy across a long-scroll page.
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Brand & Identity · 2025
Brand systematization and narrative case study for a heritage shoe-care studio.
Designed to testA heritage shoe-care brand system covering color, type, voice, packaging cues, and editorial layout.
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2–4 weeks · From $3,000
Ship one decisive thing in a month. The decision you've been postponing, sized to fit.
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6–12 weeks · From $8,000
Launch the thing your board has been asking about. Strategy, design, build — shipped together. The shape most projects find.
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3-month minimum · From $17,000 / month
Move your roadmap as fast as you can fund it. Embedded month to month — design systems, product flows, roadmap-driven work.
Identity without the system around it doesn't last. I build brand systems, not standalone marks.
I work in Next.js. If your stack is locked elsewhere, I'm the wrong call.
A paid scoping call is the front door. Free auditions aren't on the table.
Embedded design only works alongside a product manager. Without one, I become the PM by default and the work suffers. I'll recommend a Sprint or Engagement instead.
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We map what's being built, what's getting killed, and what 'shipped' looks like. By Friday you know exactly what you signed up for — and what you didn't.
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Every Friday — Loom, voice memo, or written note, your pick — walking through the week's decisions and the questions I'm wrestling. Always before EOD Pacific. You don't have to chase me.
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Halfway through, real screens and real reactions — before the design is polished enough to be hard to push back on. This is where most projects get saved or sunk.
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Built, launched, and supported for 30 days after go-live. No surprise invoices. No 'who owns the files' confusion. Code, accounts, and Figma are yours.