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 / Plan Picker

More than a rebrand.
A clearer subscription decision.

A rebrand became
a product question.

As the lead product designer for Commerce, I worked across signup and subscription. A new visual identity gave us an opportunity to rethink one of Peacock’s most important decisions: choosing a plan.

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 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.

Make duration part
of the decision.

My design question was simple: how might we help people understand monthly versus annual before they choose a plan? I explored duration controls above the cards, additional billing options, and monthly and annual choices inside each plan.

Each direction involved a tradeoff. A shared control kept the cards simpler; choices inside each card brought price and duration together but repeated the decision. Working with Product, Research and Data, I used those questions to guide iteration.

Solve for Peacock.
Design beyond it.

A pattern could work for Peacock and still become too complex elsewhere. I advocated for a model that could accommodate different subscription lengths, brand expressions and devices without crowding every plan card.

The work extended beyond a visual refresh: patterns developed for Peacock were later reused by other brands. That is the outcome I value most—a clearer approach to subscription choice with room to grow across products.

Peacock, SkyShowtime and NOW plan pickers on mobile
Mobile / One pattern, three brand expressions.
Peacock and SkyShowtime plan picker explorations on TV
Connected TV / Adapting the same foundation.

This case study focuses on my role and design approach. Internal research findings and business results are omitted.

02 / From idea to live productBookedKit

BookedKit.

Founder / Product Designer

One professional destination
for independent artists.

Visit BookedKit ↗
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. AI-assisted execution helps shorten the loop while product judgment and design decisions stay with me.

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 app redesign Design proposal

A shared foundation
for mobile news

The redesign explored a common app 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.

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 ↗

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.

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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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