Open to new work

UX Designer · Frontend Developer · Interpreter

Marcela De Las Heras

Multilingual UX designer and frontend developer. Three decades of turning complex, cross-cultural problems into interfaces people can actually use.

  • 32

    Years of experience

  • 2

    Countries worked in

  • 2+

    Languages

  • 7

    Industries

What I do

  • UX & product design

    Research, information architecture, design systems and accessible interfaces that hold up in the real world.

  • Frontend development

    Svelte, TypeScript and Tailwind — fast, semantic builds with as little tooling as the job allows.

  • Spanish ↔ English interpretation

    Medical, consecutive, VRI and OPI work where accuracy and cultural nuance matter most.

Selected work

  • memosnag

    Ongoing freelance frontend development — Svelte, CSS and the surrounding tooling, in direct collaboration with the product team.

  • This site

    SvelteKit and Tailwind build with dark mode, five accent palettes and a printable résumé.

About

I came to design the long way round: accounting in Argentina, international research in the United States, event coordination, and years of bilingual administration. Listening carefully and translating accurately turned out to be the same skill — whether the output is a conversation or an interface.

Based in St Louis, Missouri. Working remotely and on-site.

Full résumé

Tell me what you need.

A role to fill, a project to build, or an interpretation to cover — start with a message. I read everything and reply within a couple of days.