¡Hola!
I’m Juan Pablo (JP) Gomez, a New York City-based web designer and CSS developer
About Me
I grew up in Tepatitlán—Tepa—Jalisco, México; a place where the red clay soil makes our tequila exceptional, where we make the best tacos al pastor, and where—I heard it multiple times growing up so it must be true, said the UXer!–one out of three eggs consumed in Mexico City comes from.
I moved to New York City in the Spring of 1999. It rocked my world. This is the city where—in no particular order—I found my partner, am raising a family, made friends from all over the world, and worked in every neighborhood; from Tribeca (stocker) to Soho (busser) to the Upper East Side (Room Service) to Wall Street (Chocolate Store Assistant Manager) to Madison Square Park (Designer) to Harlem (Designer) to Midtown (UX Designer) to my current home in the Heights (Web Designer, Email Designer/Developer, Freelancer, Portfolio Assessor, Mentor).
About Jupago
I design things, mostly for the web.
The Design part is pretty straightforward: Make it, let it go, put it through a feedback loop, get better, make more.
The Web part is a bit more complicated. Things are changing fast—best practices, platforms, technologies–and it is as much fun as it is challenging, and yes! if you are a designer and your outputs end up as pixels on a screen then yes! speaking/writing the language of those pixels will make you a better designer. Be it color, be it layouts, be it fonts, be it interactions.
Before all is said and done I’d like to recreate every Bauhaus poster, publish my own font, and do a Real Madrid collaboration.
But why Jupago?
Don’t fact check me, but a Juan Gomez was born somewhere on earth from the time you started reading this, so I shortened it to Juan Pablo Gomez. I was very proud of how clever I was until I realized it is a very, veeery common thing to do.
Currently
Updating my website. Lots of exciting UX/UI work for a very private company—hence why I don’t really post much—occasionally doing work for a good friend and mentor Irv Smalls at FC Harlem. Helping a High School friend launch his new website.
Previously
Helped launch New York’s NYCFC and worked with them for about 5 seasons. Mentored at Blocfdr4freedoms, In Pursuit of Freedom, Prospect New Orleans, Chris Lehrecke, and Sheppard Gallagher websites under the direction of Urshula Barbour and Paul Carlos at Pure+Applied