Josué Avalos Jiménez

I build whatever I'm into.

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At Pendo, I designed and built a generative visual system for their AI agents, now shipped in production. read case study
My product page designs for Nintendo are live on Nintendo.com. read case study
I am originally from Guadalajara, México, where I grew up for the first half of my life.
I ♡ to create brands, posters, typefaces, icons, motion graphics, illustrations, prototypes, stories, and whatever else I can fixate on in the moment. I really like to do it all, and I want to be good at everything. Lately that has meant building the things too, instead of designing them and handing them off. This site is one of them.

I have always liked icons, video games, UI, and small graphics of that sort. A lot of my projects ended up in that pixel style, or leaning hard on iconography. Then I started actually making pixel art, then I interned at Nintendo, and people started joking that I was the pixels guy. One professor said I was always making “emojis”.
I did not set out to have a motif. It kept showing up on its own, and at some point the honest move was to stop treating it as a habit and start treating it as a rule.

flambé cooking
monet water lilies
sorting cd collection
shooting pool

josue:~$ play ~/demos/*.m4a# recorded these


Part of a Mexica sky band, of the kind carved on the Stone of Tizoc, a sacrificial stone. I pulled a piece of the pattern and redrew it. It splits my left arm in two, which is why I picked it: half my life happened in México and half of it has happened here. It loops the whole way around. It does not end anywhere.

Experience
  • Pendo Summer 2026
  • Nintendo of America Summer 2025
  • Pittsburgh Penguins Fall 2024
  • NC State Football Summer 2023 - Spring 2025
  • Workiva Spring 2024
Studied
  • Bachelor of Graphic & Experience Design @ NC State University, 2022 - 2026
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish (fluent)
  • French (intermediate)
Looking for
  • Full-time opportunities
  • Anywhere (happy to relocate)
Interested in
  • Brand identity
  • Design engineering
  • Product design
  • Design systems
Uses
  • Figma
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides
  • Cursor/Claude Code (im goated now)
  • Canva (if you make me)
  • BIC Cristal Xtra Smooth pen (non-negotiable)
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