Vic de Aranzeta is a designer and anthropologist that builds expressive and playful visual systems, products, and experiences. She cares about how things look, feel, and move.



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PROJECT INDEX

PROJECT INDEX


2025 - 2026
2024 - 2025
2024 - 2025
2026, Client
2022 - 2024
2021 PROJECT INDEX


2026, Personal
2026, Personal
2026, Personal
2025, Client




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INDEX

NCX – 0 to 1 design, programs page – 2024
NCX, 0 to 1 design, micro interactions – 2024 
MagicSchool, Icon Strategy – 2026 
Historypin, end to end design –2025
NCX, 0 to 1 design – 2022-2024
NRWC, Magazine design – 2025
NRWC, Interaction Design – 2024
NCX, Design System – 2022-2024
Google Crowdsource, Reading Charts & Trust in Charts, 2021
Gallery Gill, Brand Design – 2023
Spora Mommas, 0 to 1 design – 2022
NCX, 0 to 1 design – 2024
Exygy, Website Redesign – 2025
MagicSchool, Motion Design – 2026
NCX, Eligibility Map, 0 to 1 design – 2024
NCX, In-Product Messaging, 0 to 1 design – 2024
NRWC, Magazine Design – 2024
Spora Health – App Redesign – 2021
MagicSchool, Worksheet Generator – 2026
Spora Mommas, 0 to 1 design (app) – 2021






Making it pop




INFO

I’m Vic de Aranzeta, a designer, artist, and anthropologist with over a decade of experience across visual design, research, and product design. For six years, I’ve worked as a product designer with global teams from big-tech, agencies, and small teams at Seed through Series B startups across education, climate, commerce, health, AI/ML, and civic tech. 

Today, designing for teachers and students at MagicSchool AI, saving them time with simple workflows and helping them get back to student engagement. There, I’m defining the creative strategy for brand integration and elevating the product look and feel, and owning the experience design for teacher. My work spans product design, art direction, defining research operations, rapid prototyping, content strategy, and design systems.

I’ve also supported civic-tech clients to elevate their story with intuitive, visually engaging, and content driven experiences at Exygy, helped transform NCX’s product landscape leading design, and research, and launched a 0 to 1 digital marketplace for landowners, and crafted the vision and strategy for the award-winning Spora Mommas kit in partnership with Leadoff Studio.

My design practice draws inspiration from architecture, nature, film, history, vintage ads, and travel. When I’m not designing, you can find me exploring storytelling through short films, catching a baseball game, looking for the perfect cannoli, or rating movies on Letterboxd.






EXPERIENCE

Nov 2025 - Present
Senior Product Designer, MagicSchool AI

Jul 2024 - Nov 2025
Lead Product Designer, Exygy

May 2022 - Jun 2024
Founding Product Designer, NCX

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022 
Founding Product Designer, Spora Health

Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
UX Designer, Google



PRESS



AWARDS
Red Dot Design Award— Spora Mommas, 2022

Core 77 Runner Up — Spora Mommas, 2022

2nd Place MIT Hacking Racism in Healthcare, 2020





Approach





My approach centers on clarity, context, content, and robust visual systems. I view design as a flexible framework operating across form, function, and feeling, balancing big-picture strategy with hands-on craft. I believe great design is guided equally by what we know and what we feel to build experiences that truly connect, grounded in deep research and honed by craft.

To me, brand isn't an afterthought or a static logo; it’s an essential piece of product design and the core driver of how people feel when using a system. I bring people into the process early and often because design never happens in a bubble. Co-creating is one of my favorite parts of working with intention — embracing creative chaos together to land on clarity, structure, and strategy for the work ahead.

My background in anthropology and archaeology grounds my practice in human reality. I design for real-world context: noisy spaces, quiet moments, dim light, and small screens. I deeply consider human and environmental context to meet people where they are, then lead them somewhere they never imagined.







Kind words








“...Vic is one of the most thoughtful, creative, and wonderful designers that I've had the privilege of working with. Her approach and attention to each aspect of the craft is inspiring.”

— Shawhin M., Product Manager, Spora Health

“When designing, Vic uses her strong research to make our users her priority, and ensures she gets feedback from every stakeholder, even when it slows things down or requires more work from her.”

— Heather S., Sr. Software Engineer, NCX




“What set Vic apart from the very beginning was her genuine interest in end users and their lives. Her ability to internalize the user perspective was consistently demonstrated in her design outputs. As her manager, I not only trusted and knew Vic would deliver on her work, but that her work would incorporate elements from her collaboration across the team at every step of the way.”

— Andy M., Chief Product Officer, NCX



“...She made it fun to collaborate, and I felt like the work we did together was of a very high quality because of her detailed consideration of the project goals, and her communication style.”



— Leah M., Sr. Software Engineer, NCX






“Vic has a very special way of working problems from a human-centric perspective.”


— Gus N.,Director of Growth, NCX








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