Ricardo Gerstl

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12+ years building products.

Hello! 👋 I'm Ricardo Gerstl, a Senior UX Designer/Researcher based in Zurich.

I design for people whose livelihood runs through the product. My goal isn't just to 'add delight', it's to bring understanding of complex systems.

At , , and I led UX strategy across teams, and I care as much about the interaction detail as the research that points to it.

I'm comfortable in ambiguity, I bring engineering in early, and I argue for design in terms of business value and pushing tech feasability.

2025-Present
active project

Gen-AI
for Crypto Compliance

Centinel chat summarising initial investments Portfolio value by year with verified and reconstructed shares Source of wealth check against observed activity Portfolio holdings with verification status Centinel retrieving sections from the report Not enough evidence to answer an inflow origin question Plausibility check of software exit and staking claims Retrieval stopped before an unsourced answer was shown
*Mock wireframes, project is under NDA.
Summary:

At Cense I designed an AI assistant grounded in source reports for crypto compliance, and an AI-native UX workflow so design guidance and research can reach developers as they build.

Role, skills & team
Role:

Senior UX Researcher, Designer & Engineer

Skills:

+ UX research
+ AI product design
+ Live prototyping
+ Component contracts
+ Design systems
+ Developer tooling
+ User testing

Product Team:

+ Myself
+ Product Manager
+ Frontender
+ 4 Backender/
Prompt Engineer

Read full case studies: Building Cense Ai · AI Native UX Workflow

2022-2024

Centralized knowledge-base
for data-driven decisions

*Mock wireframes, project is under NDA.
Summary:

A centralized, A.I. powered Knowledge-base for AWS employeers. I led end-to-end designs and UX research, revamped the decision-making process within the organization, and lead the engineering & analyst consultants.

Role, skills & team
Role:

Senior UX Designer & Team Leader

Skills:

+ Product planning
+ Team management
+ UI Design
+ User testing/research
+ Design systems
+ Client management
+ Prototyping

Product Team:

+ Myself
+ Product Owner (client)
+ Tech Lead (client)
+ 1 Senior Product Designer
+ 7 Front/Backend Engineers
+ 3 Business/Data Analyst

Read full case study: Knowledge-base

About

Throughout the years I have grown on a personal and professional level. Interested in learning more about me?

About me

Work

Solving complex digital problems gives me great satisfaction. Luckily, that's what I do for a living. Want to learn more about my work?

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"All work and no play makes Ricardo a dull boy". Aside from my day-to-day job, I enjoy writing, coding, and doodling. Wanna' check it out?

Side projects

Organizations

The following organizations have been a pleasure to work for over the past decade:

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In the spirit of reconciliation, I, Ricardo Gerstl, acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. I pay my respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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