Christian San Jose
Designer, builder, restaurateur. 20 years of design and technology: websites for the world’s biggest athletes, Asia’s largest UX conference, and products at Copy.ai and Owner.com.
Now I open and operate my family’s cafés, restaurants and spas in Manila.
Kind words
Christian’s been doing wonderful work with the UX community in the Philippines. Keep it up!
Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things From the land of jeepneys, balut, & adobo comes some of the coolest designs. Who would have thought?
Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva, formerly Apple One-man creative powerhouse. It’s been a pleasure to mentor Christian.
Harsh Sisodia, formerly Global Digital Director at Nike & Jordan CSJ is a force multiplier unlike any other. He took our design organization from 0 to 1 in less than 6 months.
Jig Young, Chief Product Officer at Expedock Christian is an invaluable mentor and inspiring leader. He does not hesitate to set high standards.
Alexis Collado, Chief Design Officer at Swarm
History
First job: art director in Makati.
Won $10,000 in DesignByHumans’ t-shirt contest. Read the story
My vector art shipped inside Adobe Illustrator CS5.
Founded Create at 21. Logos and websites for Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, James Harden, Usain Bolt and Usher.
Create was acquired by Jump Digital Asia.
Head of Creative Technology, MullenLowe.
Co-founded Make, Saatchi & Saatchi’s UX company in Manila.
Started UX+ Conference, the biggest UX event in Asia. 20,000+ attendees since.
Head of Product Design, First Circle.
Copy.ai’s first hire, before generative AI went mainstream. $600K to $12M ARR.
Opened UX+ University. Got a $100K offer on a Shark Tank-style show.
Opened KIJI Bakehouse in BGC.
Croissants and coffee on 26th Street, open every day.
Staff Product Designer, Owner.com.
Opened Cocoon Spa & Sauna.
Studied coffee in Florence, Italy.
Opened KIJI Glorietta and KIJI Mall of Asia.
A 30-seat grab-and-go in the center of Makati, and a 100-seat, two-floor flagship built from the ground up for our first all-day dining concept.
Building now
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Restaurant Calculator
60+ calculators for restaurant math, on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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KIJI Arcade
Three tiny baking games. Beat Butters, win treats.
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Superb OS
What KIJI runs on: sales, forecasts, HR, payroll, every branch’s TVs and music, and an AI that knows the numbers.
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Superb Labs
Small tools for the rest: photo and video grading, carousel previews, QR codes that count scans.