Javier Alaves

javieralaves.com

About

I’m Javi — a designer, developer, and writer. Shipping for over a decade, turning frontier technologies into products people trust and use.

At Plume, I lead design for onchain financial observability — making institutional-grade assets and financial operations transparent and computationally verifiable.

Before that, I helped pioneer DAO tooling at Aragon. Earlier in my career, I designed products across consumer and enterprise like Bettermode and Coleap, driving millions in revenue and adoption across customer support and online education.

I’m based in Madrid, often traveling — happiest with a cold brew, a museum, or a long walk in a new city.

Work Experience

Staff Product Designer at Plume

2024 – Now

The world's largest real-world asset blockchain. Lead designer on financial observability.

Founding Designer at Voicepal

2023 – 2024

AI-powered iOS transcription app that went from 0 to 10,000+ users in <6 months.

Senior Product Designer at Coleap

2022 – 2023

End-to-end product and brand design, in close collaboration with Metalab. 0 to 1M€+ in ARR.

Product Designer at Bettermode

2020 – 2022

Lead designer on core admin features. 5x'd the user base in less than 2 years, surpassing $1.5M ARR.

Education

Management & Entrepreneurship at IE Business School

2014 – 2018

Major in technological entrepreneurship, academic thesis on onchain infrastructure for public goods.

Projects

Chakra UI

2021

Core contributor to Chakra's React component library and Figma resources.

YouTube Channel

2021

20+ high quality video design and development tutorials & walkthroughs.

Circles UBI

2019

Design contributor to local stablecoin grassroots initiative in Berlin.