Portrait of Jesse Penico

About

// Jesse is a Senior design leader with 15+ years experience shipping consumer products across mobile, multimodal platforms, and design systems. Specializes in visual craft, component architecture, and the design-to-engineering handoff—building systems that scale without sacrificing quality.

// He has led visual design for the Alexa Mobile App across nearly a decade at Amazon, and now leading design systems and UX art direction at Twitch. Known for raising the quality bar across product surfaces, establishing scalable design languages, and partnering closely with engineering to ship polished, accessible UI.

Skills

  • Design Systems
  • Visual Design
  • UX / Product
  • Art Direction
  • Component Architecture
  • Figma
  • Prototyping
  • Typography
  • Accessibility
  • Design Tokens

Colophon

  • display Barlow Condensed 700 / 800
  • text IBM Plex Mono 400 / 600
  • stack static HTML / CSS / vanilla JS
  • build Python 3, standard library only
  • contrast WCAG AA · 4.57:1 minimum

Experience

{

Twitch == [Senior_UXDesigner]:
_CoreUI_DesignSystems [2025 > Present]

Amazon == [Senior_VisualUXDesigner]:
_Alexa_Devices [2017 > 2025]

HTC == [Senior_VisualDesigner]:
_Creative_Labs [2011 > 2017]

RELEVANT_Magazine == [Senior_Designer]:
[2009 > 2011]

}

Education

{

Ringling :: College_of_Art+Design; [graduated.2009];

}

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