Luis Miguel Caamaño.

Designer who directs AI to ship products

Colombia (GMT-5) · Spanish native, English professional

caamano.luismiguel@gmail.comgithub.com/caamanoluismiguellinkedin.com/in/caamanobrutoperodecidido.com

Experience

  • 2026–present

    Independent product design, directing AI

    Took four live products from research to deploy on my own.

  • 2024

    Creative director, UDES campaign

    Aprende, Aplica, Avanza: out-of-home launch campaign for the university's technical careers. Strategy, concept and art direction as an outside consultant, leading a communications and design team.

  • 2016–present

    Co-founder, My Lettering (with Alejandra Perdomo)

    Lettering school and studio. Hundreds of workshops until about 2023, an online platform with almost 2,000 students, three books with Editorial Planeta and brand work for Adidas, Noel, Vélez and Panamericana. Content direction for edding LatAm, 2022 to 2023.

  • 2010–present

    Design professor, Isthmus

    Panama campus since 2010, Isthmus Norte (Mexico) since 2025. These days also teaching AI in education.

  • 2010–2016

    Graphic designer and creative director

    Studio and agency work in Colombia at Branders, Digiway and Imagen Group, before founding My Lettering. At Digiway I designed a whole TEDxQuito talk that my boss gave, and since it was agency work my name isn't on it.

Products

I built these by directing AI. Everything here is live except Lazarus 360, which is in development.

  • CCWEAROS

    github.com/caamanoluismiguel/ccwearos

    Open-source Wear OS bridge for Claude Code.

  • ParentMap

    parentmap.co

    Placement assessment for homeschooling families in LATAM, with re-testing to see progress over time.

  • MUFU

    mufu.today

    Shared archive and narrative bridge of a ten week trimester at Isthmus, Panamá: 53 objects sealed in a wall, with an opening set for 2047.

  • UIMO

    uimo.shop

    Turns children's drawings into 3D figurines.

  • Lazarus 360

    brutoperodecidido.com/work/lazarus-360

    Android and Wear OS app that revives the discontinued Samsung Gear 360 camera, fully on-device.

Teaching

I've taught design at Isthmus, a design school in Panama, for 16 years and I still do. These days I also teach about AI in education.

Books

I co-wrote Lettering sin límites 1, 2 and 3 with Alejandra Perdomo for Editorial Planeta. More than 30,000 copies sold.

planetadelibros.com.co →

Skills

  • Design direction
  • AI-directed product development (Claude Code, generative image and video pipelines)
  • TypeScript, Next.js and Kotlin for Wear OS
  • Marketing and campaign strategy
  • Lettering
  • Teaching and curriculum design
  • Brand and editorial design

How I work

Artificial intelligence without natural intelligence doesn't work. My part is everything that happens before the AI starts, having the question and deciding what's worth making.