Cristian Morales

Founding mentor

🌱 First session

Fractional Design Engineering Partner @ Southleft

1testimonial Chile Santiago (UTC-3) 10+ yrs in design

About

I'm Cris, a Design Engineer from Chile. Currently at Southleft where I collab with the team building AI-powered design systems on client engagements, and develop internal tooling and workflows as Fractional Design Engineering Partner.

How I can help

I can help you understand how modern AI-powered Design Systems are being built and measured. Doesn't matter you are a new or seasoned design system nerd. I've mentored designers transition to design engineer roles. I can help you integrating AI into design to code workflows.

Ask me about

Agency to in-house

Freelance to full-time

First or only designer

Getting passed over

Influence without authority

Imposter syndrome

Building a design system

Expertise

Product Designer

Visual/Brand

Design systems

AI workflows

AI tools

Agentic AI

Developer Tools

Experience

Fractional Design Engineering Partner · Southleft
Aug 2026 to present
Design Engineer & Design Systems Architect · Enara Health
Jan 2026 - Jul 2026
Product Designer · Enara Health
nov. 2024 - dic. 2025
UX/UI Designer · Enara Health
sep 2023 - oct 2024
Design Consultant · Honda Chile
dec 2022 - feb 2024
Freelance | Web & Brand Design
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
Brand, web, and marketing projects for multiple companies

Resources I share

Design System Template AI-powered Design System Guided tour Teach Claude how to Figma Build your CV as a PDF from structured data. Kill the ATS filter Deploy you own MCP. Hono + Vercel MCP template Understand what is, and how to build a knowledge base

Testimonials

Cristian helped me figure out my current blockers and gave me a better idea on how to position myself. I also got valuable feedback about navigating the design engineering path and shared some great resources!! I look forward to learning more from Christian in future sessions!
Deep · Sep 2026