# About Gabriel Valdivia

Canonical page: https://www.gabrielvaldivia.com/about

## Bio

I’ve spent 15 years designing for some of the world’s top tech companies while building products of my own. From Automatic to Meta, Google, CNN, and Patreon, I’ve worked across product, brand, and emerging technology, helping teams turn ambitious ideas into products people use.

Today, I bring that experience to early-stage teams building their first generation of products. I work fractionally with companies like Daylight Computer, Workmate, Slingshot AI, and Google Ventures, helping founders avoid attractive wrong turns, make better decisions, and move quickly from idea to product.

## Talks

- [Designing At The Speed of Startups](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS2fs0_uBGw): 21 min · Config · 2025
- [Private By Default: Ethically Personalized Digital Products](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKGqypkbVY): 32 min · Front Conference · 2021
- [UXPeditions: Can Technology Make A Safer World?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWeGuARKMl4): 16 min · Design Driven · 2018
- [Designing Beyond The Screen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bvOLX8yMA): 31 min · JAM Conf · 2017
- [Why Silicon Valley Loves Cuban Sandwiches](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0McNgQEW88E): 25 min · Gasparilla Interactive · 2016

## Interviews

- [The Future Belongs to Fractional Designers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSvn_SmLRj8): 58 min · Dive Club · 2025
- [Episode 47 — Filling the Design Void](https://fullstackwhatever.com/episode/gabriel-valdivia-filling-the-design-void): 45 min · Full Stack Whatever · 2024
- [Storytelling and Designing 0-1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzsWhAaGKAM): 45 min · Dive Club · 2023

## Patents

- [Reviewing travel trips](https://patents.google.com/patent/US9423269B2/en?inventor=gabriel+valdivia&oq=gabriel+valdivia): US9423269B2
- [Multi-post stories](https://patents.google.com/patent/US9917804B2/en?inventor=gabriel+valdivia&oq=gabriel+valdivia): US9917804B2
- [Presenting information in virtual reality systems](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180189254A1/en?inventor=gabriel+valdivia&oq=gabriel+valdivia): US20180189254A1
- [User Interactions in VR](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180096507A1/en?inventor=gabriel+valdivia&oq=gabriel+valdivia): US20180096507A1
- [Gaze tracking interactions](https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3306444A1/en?inventor=gabriel+valdivia&oq=gabriel+valdivia): EP3306444A1
- [Body-mounted controller interactions](https://patents.google.com/patent/US10536691B2/en?inventor=gabriel+valdivia&oq=gabriel+valdivia&peid=631c3d8278bb0:2a:75507bc3): US10536691B2
- [Reactions in VR](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180189554A1/en?inventor=gabriel+valdivia&oq=gabriel+valdivia): US20180189554A1
- [Display screen with animated UI](https://patents.google.com/patent/USD820857S1/en?inventor=gabriel+valdivia&oq=gabriel+valdivia): USD820857S1

## Selected playground projects

- [Craftdeck](https://www.gabrielvaldivia.com/playground/craftdeck): Heroes of Product Design
- [GV-1](https://www.gabrielvaldivia.com/playground/gv-1): A kinetic instrument
- [Openfeed](https://www.gabrielvaldivia.com/playground/openfeed): A curated ring of personal photo sites.
- [Fieldtone](https://www.gabrielvaldivia.com/playground/fieldtone): A sound for every place and time
- [Loupe](https://www.gabrielvaldivia.com/playground/loupe): An iPhone app for watch collectors

## Contact

- Email: [gabe@valdivia.works](mailto:gabe@valdivia.works)