Jose Alvarez
Most designers make products look good.
I make them feel like they're on your side.

Emotional UX · AI products · Fintech

Two systems built on the same idea — that how a product makes you feel decides whether you come back.

The case studies above are finished systems. This one's still in the workshop.

Flare — Synapse engine preview

2026 · In progress

Flare

The second proactive brain for content creators. A React Native + Skia app that surfaces micro-trends before they go viral and adapts them to each creator's niche through vector search — built around Synapse, an infinite physics canvas where sources, signals and predictions live as connected nodes.

Emotional State Architecture

Cold data doesn't retain users — it records them. ESA maps the journey through four emotional states instead of sessions. Each state has a trigger, a psychological mechanism, and an action it invites. Same framework, two very different products.

Cuak · Fintech
DuoGit · Dev tools

Trigger — day start, no activity

Pure potential. The day begins without pressure. An expectant posture: the mascot waits, it doesn't judge.

Anthropomorphism · Epley, Waytz & Cacioppo

Read the full framework →

Character systems, data made readable, and why presentation is part of the work

Three habits that show up in every project — from designing a mascot's states to composing the screens above.

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