Independent perspective. Shared work.

Product / Visual / Interaction

SebastianVidal.

Digital experiences for the way
we watch, read and create.

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2014—2026

Selected work01—05
01

Peacock

Streaming & subscription design
02

BookedKit

Founder / Product design
03

The Wall Street Journal

Editorial & visual systems
04

Bloomberg

Product & motion
05

MoMA

Culture & interaction
01 / Streaming & subscription designSubscription experience

Peacock.

Principal Product Designer / Commerce & account experiences

Clearer customer choices.
A stronger product foundation.

I design subscription, monetization and account experiences at Peacock, connecting product strategy with hands-on interaction design, experimentation and reusable systems.

My work spans choosing a plan, checkout, subscription changes and account management across web, mobile and connected TV.

I partner with Product, Engineering, Research and Data Science to turn complex customer, business and technical requirements into clear product decisions.

Case study 01

Subscription &
Monetization Experiences.

Designing more intuitive ways to discover, manage and retain streaming subscriptions.

My role
Principal Product Designer, connecting strategy, interaction design and experimentation with Product, Engineering, Research and Data Science.
The challenge
Make complex subscription offerings easier to understand while supporting evolving customer journeys and business models.

Intelligent Plan Picker

I contributed to the launch of a contextual plan-selection experience with centrally managed product information. The MVP introduced contextual options within customer journeys and established a foundation for more accurate plan management, faster experimentation and future personalization.

Checkout optimization

I worked on simplifying the purchase journey by moving the plan summary to payment and refining the payment CTA layout. The experiment increased progression to payment and completed purchases, connecting a focused interaction change with measurable commercial impact.

Cancellation & retention

I contributed to an offer reminder that helped customers understand the discounts they would lose by canceling. The experiment increased subscription saves, making existing value clearer at a critical customer decision.

Subscription add-ons

I supported premium-content discovery and add-on journeys, helping customers understand how an additional offer fits their membership. The work supported the launch of premium-content purchasing and a foundation for future upselling.

Impact Experiments improved purchase completion and subscription saves. Earlier Plan Picker work also drove annual adoption beyond its original goal, showing how clearer customer choices can create meaningful business value.

Selected design story / Plan Picker & experimentation

A rebrand became
a product question.

A new visual identity gave us an opportunity to rethink one of Peacock’s most important decisions: choosing a plan. As Principal Product Designer for Commerce, I shaped the interaction model as well as the visual experience.

The challenge was to bring a stronger brand expression into the experience while keeping the choice clear. Rather than treating the Plan Picker as a reskin, I focused on how people compare a plan, its benefits and its billing duration.

Peacock, SkyShowtime and NOW plan pickers on mobile
Mobile / One pattern, three brand expressions.

Make duration part
of the decision.

I reframed the challenge around a clearer choice: help people understand monthly and annual before they commit to a plan. I explored shared duration controls and choices inside each card, weighing visibility against complexity. With Product, Research and Data, I turned what we learned through experimentation into the next design iteration.

The resulting experience drove substantial growth in annual sign-ups and free-to-paid annual upgrades, far exceeding the original adoption goal. The broader work contributed to clearer customer decisions and a more scalable foundation for subscription experimentation.

Peacock plan picker: Control / Hidden toggle
Control / Hidden toggle
Peacock plan picker: Explore / Prominent duration
Explore / Prominent duration
Peacock plan picker: Explore / Multiple durations
Explore / Multiple durations
Peacock plan picker: Explore / Duration within plans
Explore / Duration within plans

Historical design explorations. Pricing and placeholder copy are part of the original studies.

Case study 03

Streaming Products &
Global Expansion.

Adapting streaming commerce to different products, markets and customer needs.

My role
Contributed product and interaction design across new offers, membership journeys and shared commerce patterns. I worked in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
The challenge
Accommodate different subscription lengths, brand expressions, devices and market requirements without making the customer decision harder.

Sports packages & viewing passes

I contributed to new NOW sports packages and differentiated viewing passes, helping organize a more flexible range of subscription choices. New offers launched to support seasonal viewing needs and the business objective of acquiring and retaining sports customers.

STARZ premium add-on

I contributed to add-on experiences that let existing Peacock subscribers purchase STARZ. The offer launched across web, Roku and Amazon, extending the membership experience and establishing a foundation for future premium-content upselling.

NOW / HBO Max membership

I contributed to experiences supporting new tiered entertainment memberships in the UK and Ireland. The launch accommodated new subscription structures while supporting continued access to HBO content.

International account experiences

I helped adapt membership and account patterns to regional product requirements. Account Reimagination launched across international streaming products, bringing shared design work into different subscription models and customer contexts.

Solve for Peacock.
Design beyond it.

The next challenge was scale. A choice that felt simple for Peacock had to accommodate more subscription lengths, different brand identities and the demands of a TV remote. I advocated for a shared model that kept those choices visible without repeating them inside every plan card.

Patterns developed for Peacock were later reused across other brands. The work became more than a successful redesign: a flexible commerce foundation that could support different products, markets and devices while preserving a clear subscription decision.

Connected TV / A shared foundation, adapted for Peacock, SkyShowtime and NOW.

Business outcomes are described qualitatively. Internal research findings and exact performance figures are omitted.

02 / From idea to live productBookedKit

BookedKit.

Founder / Product Designer / AI orchestration

One professional destination
for independent artists.

Visit BookedKit ↗
BookedKit’s new homepage, with oversized black and red typography and a collection of expressive artist pages
A new front door for independent artists.Explore the live website ↗

A product.
A brand.
A way forward.

I designed BookedKit’s website to connect the product with the ambition of the artists it serves. Bold typography and expressive artist pages give the brand a music-led identity.

Build, Learn and Connect bring the offer together: a professional artist presence, practical industry guidance and opportunities to get out there. The website introduces that wider vision alongside the tools to create and publish.

BookedKit artist profile shown on laptop and phone
Responsive artist profiles / Laptop & mobile

Bring the pieces
together.

An artist’s professional identity is often scattered across a bio, social accounts, music links, show dates, press photos and files. BookedKit brings those pieces into one destination to build, publish and share.

The initial concept and early-access waitlist received 68 signups from 655 landing-page visits. That early signal helped me decide to invest in building the product.

BookedKit editor with modular content and visual settings around a live artist-page preview
A modular editor / Content, expression and publishing in one workflow.

Flexible expression.
A consistent system.

Reusable modules support bios, music, video, galleries, events, files, contact and press. Typography, color and media give artists room to express an identity within a responsive foundation.

As founder and product designer, I connect strategy, design, implementation and measurement. The same product judgment guides both the artist experience and the AI-agent workflows behind the company.

One founder.
A coordinated team
of AI agents.

I’m building BookedKit as both a product and an AI-enabled company. I direct a coordinated team of AI agents across strategy, engineering, quality assurance and marketing, connecting business decisions with product delivery.

My role spans founder, product designer and orchestrator: defining the problems worth solving, shaping the experience, reviewing execution and deciding what ships.

Human direction / Sebastián Vidal

Set direction. Shape the experience.
Review the work. Approve the release.

01 Strategy
Research, planning and prioritization.
02 Engineering
Technical planning and development.
03 Quality assurance
Testing, review and release checks.
04 Marketing
Positioning, content and campaigns.

Specialized agents carry out the work. I connect their contributions, resolve tradeoffs and stay accountable for the result.

How I work / From brief to reviewed release

  1. 01 / Define

    I set the customer problem, intended outcome and design direction.

  2. 02 / Coordinate

    I direct specialist agents through planning, development and communication.

  3. 03 / Review

    Agent-led checks support my review of the experience, implementation and quality.

  4. 04 / Decide

    I approve what ships and use feedback to shape the next iteration.

Build → Publish → Share → Learn

The product continues to evolve through analytics and experiments. I’m comparing a seven-day Pro trial against starting on Free, with free-to-paid conversion as the primary outcome. The experiment is ongoing.

03 / Editorial experiences2019—2022

The Wall
Street Journal.

Lead Product Designer

Editorial craft, mobile audio and a shared visual language for a daily news experience.

Mobile web redesign Design proposal

A shared foundation
for mobile news

The redesign explored a shared mobile web foundation for Dow Jones brands, using theming and tokens to support different identities.

The WSJ experience brought articles, audio and saved stories into the same product foundation.

WSJ / Iconography2020

A visual language
for the Journal

Icons created in isolation had lost a consistent visual style. The new family drew from the Journal’s headline typeface, Escrow, to establish shared geometry, stroke and proportion.

A family of icons, built to work together.
A consistent family

WSJ / Construction & collaboration

Consistency by
construction.

A 24 px grid covered the main use cases, with 16 px and 48 px variations. Safe zones and key shapes helped designers maintain proportion and alignment.

A workshop cheat sheet gave the wider team a practical way to create new icons within the same system.

Read my article: A New Icon System for WSJ ↗
Typographic fundamentals

WSJ / Homepage refinement

A clearer
reading hierarchy.

A 2020 research benchmark highlighted difficulty completing core tasks despite strong trust in the Journal. The homepage work focused on a clearer hierarchy and more consistent structure.

01 / Typography
Retina replaced Exchange in story summaries.
02 / Image hierarchy
Removing selected thumbnails reduced visual noise around headlines.
03 / Spacing
More space between story cards helped frame each story.
WSJ homepage design showing the full four-column news layout, market data, opinion and podcast player
Selected homepage design work
WSJ / Layout studiesStructure & rhythm
Before: WSJ homepage column-width study with red annotations
Before / Column-width study
After: WSJ homepage column-width study with green annotations
After / Column-width study

A common language
behind the pages.

The design-system work connected reusable components with documented foundations. Color and typography references helped make those decisions explicit and consistent.

News you can
listen to.

WSJ / Mobile media player

The brief addressed the difficulty of engaging with audio in the app. Playback offered another way to access articles and follow the news while doing something else.

Listening alongside reading

A shared design foundation

The wider design-system effort brought reusable Figma components and documentation together over approximately a year, giving the team a common foundation for new and existing work.

04 / Professional tools & motion2014—2019

Bloomberg.

Experienced Visual Designer

Product experiences that make room for listening, quick decisions and a more personal view of the markets.

Bloomberg Radio mobile app with a persistent audio player

Radio app / 2018

A new radio
experience.

User feedback informed a redesign focused on smoother interaction and easier playback.

The player in context

A view that changes
with the trading day.

Today’s View / 2017

The Bloomberg Professional landing page adapts for pre-market, intraday and post-market use. Cards support a quick scan or a deeper look, with suggestions reflecting how each person uses the app.

Motion as
product guidance.

Onboarding / 2017

Research and interviews informed three videos and five slides introducing the new navigation. Working with a developer, I helped implement the motion with Lottie on iOS and Android.

01 / Act now
02 / Make it yours
03 / Always first

Designing
the wait.

Splash-screen explorations / 2017

The app needed time to load. These studies explored how the opening sequence could reduce the perception of waiting.

Bloomberg
on iPad.

Apple iPad Pro presentation / 2018

Apple invited Bloomberg to contribute to its iPad Pro presentation. I was part of the three-person team that created a short look at the Bloomberg iPad app.

A short excerpt showing the Bloomberg app Shared team contribution
05 / Culture & interaction2014

MoMA.

Lead Designer

Picasso: The Making of Cubism 1912–1914. An interactive publication exploring fifteen works by Picasso.

Designed in collaboration with designer and typographer Charles Nix ↗.

Recognition / 2015

Digital Book Award

Winner, App: Reference/Academic — awarded to MoMA’s Picasso: The Making of Cubism 1912–1914.

Picasso digital publication cover with a portrait of the artist
Picasso publication cover showing the artist’s studio and constructions

An interactive reading experience

A closer look
at the work.

Each object chapter brings together essays and detailed imagery. X-rays, 360-degree views and video commentary offer different ways to examine the work.

Conservation notes, provenance and exhibition histories bring the research into the reading experience.

Explore the publication in motion
About / Sebastián VidalNew York

Product thinking.
Visual precision.
Room to explore.

Portrait of Sebastián Vidal
Buenos Aires → Spain → New York

I’m Sebastián, a Principal Product Designer at Peacock in New York and the founder of BookedKit. I design consumer products where product strategy, interaction, visual systems and business goals need to work together.

I grew up in Buenos Aires and studied architecture and interior design in Spain. That background still shapes how I think about systems: how individual decisions connect, how experiences scale, and how the pieces work together. My work at Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and MoMA developed that approach across news, professional tools and culture, including MoMA’s award-winning interactive Picasso publication.

Today I move between a shared streaming platform and building a product from zero. At Peacock, I work across subscription experiences, experimentation and reusable patterns. With BookedKit, I connect product strategy, design, implementation and measurement. Across both, I care about making complex products clear, useful and carefully crafted.

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