Elmer Barrera

Product Designer

6+ years of experience designing for native mobile apps and 0 -> 1 projects. Involved in the whole process – from strategy and research to design and implementation.


Currently at Adobe, building tools for productivity.

barreraelmer@gmail.com

Elmer Barrera

Product Designer

6+ years of experience designing for native mobile apps and 0 -> 1 projects. Involved in the whole process – from strategy and research to design and implementation.


Currently at Adobe, building tools for productivity.

barreraelmer@gmail.com

Elmer Barrera

Product Designer

6+ years of experience designing for native mobile apps and 0 -> 1 projects. Involved in the whole process – from strategy and research to design and implementation.


Currently at Adobe, building tools for productivity.

barreraelmer@gmail.com

Selected Works

Updated: Aug 24 2025

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Selected Works

Updated: Aug 24 2025

Selected Works

Updated: Aug 24 2025

Share Sheet

Redesigned the share sheet for the Acrobat mobile app, which led to a 300% increase in monthly active usage.

Following the success of the project, the team scaled the share sheet to Web, Desktop and the Adobe Scan app. We also gained buy-in from leadership to further invest into collaboration features.

Year

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2024

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Share Sheet

Redesigned the share sheet for the Acrobat mobile app, which led to a 300% increase in monthly active usage.

Following the success of the project, the team scaled the share sheet to Web, Desktop and the Adobe Scan app. We also gained buy-in from leadership to further invest into collaboration features.

Year

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2024

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Share Sheet

Redesigned the share sheet for the Acrobat mobile app, which led to a 300% increase in monthly active usage.

Following the success of the project, the team scaled the share sheet to Web, Desktop and the Adobe Scan app. We also gained buy-in from leadership to further invest into collaboration features.

Year

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2024

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Mobile Design Systems

As a product designer, I've worked tangentially on design systems at Adobe.

Key highlights include:

  • Helping define a semantic color system to support dark and high contrast modes

  • Streamlining the mobile component libraries by adding structure, scalable components, and best practices

  • Partnering with the Spectrum DS team to define mobile patterns

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Ongoing

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Mobile Design Systems

As a product designer, I've worked tangentially on design systems at Adobe.

Key highlights include:

  • Helping define a semantic color system to support dark and high contrast modes

  • Streamlining the mobile component libraries by adding structure, scalable components, and best practices

  • Partnering with the Spectrum DS team to define mobile patterns

Year

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Ongoing

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Mobile Design Systems

As a product designer, I've worked tangentially on design systems at Adobe.

Key highlights include:

  • Helping define a semantic color system to support dark and high contrast modes

  • Streamlining the mobile component libraries by adding structure, scalable components, and best practices

  • Partnering with the Spectrum DS team to define mobile patterns

Year

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Ongoing

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Premium Tools

Designed four premium actions which account for 12.6% of paid user conversions–

  • Password protection

  • PDF to image

  • PDF compression

  • File combination


Year

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2020 - 2023

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Premium Tools

Designed four premium actions which account for 12.6% of paid user conversions–

  • Password protection

  • PDF to image

  • PDF compression

  • File combination


Year

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2020 - 2023

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Premium Tools

Designed four premium actions which account for 12.6% of paid user conversions–

  • Password protection

  • PDF to image

  • PDF compression

  • File combination


Year

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2020 - 2023

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EasyVote

Collaborated on an iOS app that helps people create custom voter guides.

Shipped an MVP in select states just in time for the 2020 primary elections.

Product

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Year

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2020

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EasyVote

Collaborated on an iOS app that helps people create custom voter guides.

Shipped an MVP in select states just in time for the 2020 primary elections.

Product

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Year

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2020

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EasyVote

Collaborated on an iOS app that helps people create custom voter guides.

Shipped an MVP in select states just in time for the 2020 primary elections.

Product

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Year

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2020

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