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Janiré Castillo
Product Designer ・ UX Strategist
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Janiré Castillo is a product designer and UX strategist with more than twenty years of experience, and the founder of Articulate Digital, a Maryland studio that designs and builds websites and applications for solo professionals and small service businesses. Before founding the studio she led product and UX work for organizations including AAMC, FiscalNote and Indivisible. She also designs, builds and ships the studio’s own iPhone apps, including Marqo, a client decision log.
Formats
Conference and community talks, hands-on workshops, panels and podcast interviews, in person in the DC, Maryland and Virginia area or remote. In English or Spanish.
Topics
Decide what is worth building before you build it
How to test an idea against the problem it is meant to solve before any design or code, with Marqo, an iPhone app for logging client decisions, as the worked example.
Talk or podcast conversation
Accessibility is part of the build, not an add-on
Why every site and app the studio ships is audited to WCAG 2.1 AA on core flows, and what automated audits miss: menus, dialogs and the states a crawler never opens.
Talk or workshop
A one-person studio with AI in the loop
How a solo designer designs, builds and ships client websites and iPhone apps with AI tools, and where human judgment still makes the call.
Talk, panel or podcast conversation
Appearances
October 28th, 2026
Willa, a community helping women build confidence with AI
Talk: how Marqo was checked before it was built, and built with Claude Code.
October 8th, 2026
UXCON, a UX conference in Silver Spring, Maryland
Demo table for Marqo, with product designers testing the app and its one-pager.
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