2025 Performance Review

2025 Performance Review

"Feedback often tells you more about the person giving it than about yourself."
– Stephen R. Covey.

A Holistic Exercise

Structure of the performance review
Year in Review

Highlighting key activities executed throughout 2025 to align quarterly achievements with future goals

Profesional life wheel

To collaboratively build a professional life wheel from the leader's perspective

Next achievements

Focus areas and strategic expectations for the next 12 months

Recapitulación

Recapitulación

The best moments and most outstanding work in each Q of 2025
Q2 2025

Standardization & Strategic Alignment

Orchestrated the homogenization of 3 core components with disparate definitions, resulting in a seamless and consistent user experience.

Finalized the definition and closure of 3 "Client File" components, mastering the end-to-end construction processes.

Led negotiations with high-level Product Owners (POs) to incentivize improvements in banking integration processes.

Designed flows for "Cause Registration and Rejection Details" to reduce operational friction.

Q3 2025

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration (Wholesale Banking)

Partnered with Senior Designers to elevate User Experience standards within the Wholesale Banking sector.

Defined and updated critical "Client File" user flows.

Executed rigorous Design QA (DQA) using checklists and strict version control to ensure implementation fidelity for "Client File" in Operational Management System.

June 21th

Integration activity at the Nevado de Toluca

Q4 2025

Guide to best practices for internal platform

Authored the "Internal Best Practices Guide," establishing Design System standards in collaboration with Design and Tech teams
Q4 2025

Cross-Functional Impact

Leveraged transversal components to turn design strengths into business opportunities.

Digital Signature: Led ideation sessions for the "Digital Signature" contracting feature.

Proposal Closure: Secured approval for the "DIY Legal Verification" (Bastanteo) proposal, covering both proactive and reactive user scenarios.

UX Team Value

Recognized by the design community for high-impact contributions from Q2 to Q4 UX projects.

Professional Life Wheel

It allows you to see life holistically and not as isolated parts of people's lives, and is mainly used in "coaching"
It was popularized by Paul J. Meyer in the 1960s and allows you to quickly identify which aspects of life require more attention.

Key Competencies Assessment

Key Competencies Assessment

A holistic evaluation measuring leadership maturity and readiness for management roles within the next 2–5 years.
  1. Leadership & Mentorship:

Elevating team performance and defining clear career paths for direct reports

2. Design Strategy & Vision

Defining the product's "North Star," ensuring design acts as a competitive advantage

3. Business Acumen

Understanding banking KPIs, ROI, and how design impacts the financial balance sheet

4. Resource Management

Managing timelines, budgets, and roadmap compliance within Agile/Scrum frameworks

5. Strategic Communication

Synthesizing complex design topics for non-technical C-Level stakeholders

6. Conflict Resolution

Mediating between Engineering and Product to defend the UX without compromising relationships

7. Psychological Safety

Fostering a high-trust environment where the team feels safe to propose disruptive ideas

8. Data Culture

Leveraging Analytics and user research to validate every design decision

9. Innovation Methods

Evangelizing and applying new methodologies within traditional structures

10. Emotional Intelligence

Resilience and self-control amidst corporate pressure and shifting priorities

Career Roadmap

Challenges to overcome to achieve goals within BBVA

PRODUCT UX

Positioning as a Senior Product Designer

Exceed role objectives

Master Archetype Construction

Become a Designer reference point

Building design cummunity

Pursue a Master’s degree

MANAGER

Transitioning to UX Manager

Lead Senior Designers

Align UX metrics with Business KPIs

Develop a Senior Leader vision

Strengthen soft skills

Mentor other designers

HEAD OF UX

Leading the Design Field

Emotional maturity

Executive leadership capacity

Lead UX for a vertical

Drive innovation in a big organization

Launch key strategic projects

2025

"True strategies are those executed flawlessly by great leaders, but it is the teams that sustain them over long periods."

"True strategies are those executed flawlessly by great leaders, but it is the teams that sustain them over long periods."

George - Jorge Luis

Product Design Lead

See you next 2026!

© 2026 | Designed with ❤️️ by Jorge L. Martínez

“True innovation is one that improves people’s lives”
– Steve Wozniak

© 2026 | Designed with ❤️️ by Jorge L. Martínez

“True innovation is one that improves people’s lives”
– Steve Wozniak

© 2025 | Designed with ❤️️

by Jorge L. Martínez

“True innovation is one that improves people’s lives”
– Steve Wozniak