Résumé

Grazia Prato

Product designer with over ten years designing data-heavy tools for expert users: observatories, transport, legal and mining operations. Research through to coded prototypes.

Download the PDF[email protected]Santiago, Chile · Open to relocation · English: fluent (C1) · French (B1)
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Experience

Jan 2023 – now · Remote

Independent product designer

  • AC3E: research, information architecture and a design system for a trilingual research-center site, built with AI; now in discovery for an intranet and ANID performance dashboard.
  • Helio-KNOW (NASA hackathon, 2024): navigable prototype and dashboard architecture for ontology-based heliophysics exploration.
  • LACTLD: data visualization and architecture of technical performance reports for Latin American ccTLDs.
  • Agricultural risk analysis platform: UX strategy for climate-variable analysis.

Oct 2021 – Dec 2025 · NIC Chile Research Labs

Lead product designer

  • Led ReCon, a monitoring tool for .cl domain-dispute arbitration: research, IA, data visualization and coded UI. Cut the time to find a key indicator by more than 90%.
  • Mentored junior designers; planned and ran exploratory workshops for a DNS performance platform.

Nov 2015 – Sep 2021 · Inria Chile and Inria France

Lead product designer, founding designer

  • Rubin Observatory (L.O.V.E.): control interface and UI framework for 65+ systems; led the design of 40+ reusable components with interaction rules and specs.
  • ALMA Observatory: integrated alarm system for 66 antennas and their buildings.
  • SERNAGEOMIN (Cero Accidente): explainable AI inspection planner; inspection coverage up 45% in 2019–2021.
  • Santiago transport (CMB): real-time bus monitoring map with semantic zoom.
  • Set up the collaboration framework between design, engineering and research; standardized development cycles.

Sep – Nov 2015 · CiTIUS, Spain

Visiting researcher

  • Advanced visualization and real-time interaction for 3D virtual sets.

Oct 2013 – Dec 2015 · NIC Chile Research Labs

Junior, then mid-level UX designer

  • UI, UX and front-end for Adkintun, a mobile internet quality platform; illustrations explaining technical concepts.