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Estie's design shop

Estie's design shop

Welcome all

brief introduction

Estie was born on a Saturday. Interaction Designer from Bogota who, motivated by his profound love of design, moved to London 7 years ago and ever since arriving has had the pleasure to craft digital products for mass consumption.

Estie has been leading design at Fling for the past 2 years where he has had the opportunity to found the company's first design team, injecting design and usability foundations into the core production line. Estie makes crucial product decisions for the use of millions of users every day. He saw Fling grow from 0 to 5 million users.

Estie was born on a Saturday.

Interaction Designer from Bogota who, motivated by his profound love of design, moved to London 7 years ago and ever since arriving has had the pleasure to craft digital products for mass consumption.

Estie has been leading design at Fling for the past 2 years where he has had the opportunity to found the company's first design team, injecting design and usability foundations into the core production line. Estie makes crucial product decisions for the use of millions of users every day. He saw Fling grow from 0 to 5 million users.

Estie worked in design projects in the past for, Google, iTunes, Youtube, Sony, Xbox, Unii, Wikia, XS & Parcelgenie.

recent projects

Fling grew from 0 to 5 Million users in 10 months. The social network where users can share photos & videos with the rest of the world, get followers, react to Flings and chat is available for both iOS and Android.

Creative Director: Estie Carrillo

UI & UX Design: Estie Carrillo, Henry Chung Lin

Motion Design: Pierre Joshua


Branding and Illustrations: Estie Carrillo, Steve Roberts

"Millions of users and a lot of cash is great, but it doesn’t matter unless your app is cool. Luckily, Fling has a remarkably well-designed app that’s a blast to use"

- TechCrunch, October 2015

5 million
app downloads strong

With the rapid and steady growth of Fling a web that could handle millions of visits at the same time and also efficiently explained the value proposition of the app was needed. Fling on the web was born. For more info visit: www.flingtheworld.com

A Student Only Social Network. Unii is an app to discover what others are talking about at your university, see your posts going viral and meet other students in higher education.

Creative Director: Estie Carrillo

UI & UX Design: Estie Carrillo, Luca Artorelli

Motion Design: Pierre Joshua


 Branding and Illustrations: Estie Carrillo

"If you’re a student in the UK and haven’t heard of Unii, let me introduce you! It’s like Twitter but only for your campus with hilarious updates from other students"

- Buzzfeed, November 2014

Instant access to real
 campus action

As well as having an Android and iPhone app, Unii also works beautifully on the web, with a fully responsive web-app that Students can save to their phones. Unii’s web intelligently recognises if it’s being accessed via mobile or web, displaying either a sign up page or a “download the app” web.

Nrdy is a side project that was born after seeing the need for a better experience when trying to buy a gift for a friend that who’s into nerd swag. Nrdy curates the best nerdy products from Amazon UK and redirects users to it. Visit the web:

UI & UX Design: Estie Carrillo


Branding: Estie Carrillo

Development & Backend: James Weaver

Responsive experience across desktop and mobile

Nrdy is fully responsive on both desktop and mobile, whether users want to explore the web at home or just buy a quick something for that special nerdy in their life, we’re there to help. Nrdy’s beatiful design encourages clarity and ease to explore.

Ever seen one of those “Selfie a day” videos? Where people take 1 photo a day for years and then put them on Youtube? We set out to create an app that would make the process simpler and straight forward by using clean and beautiful intuitive design.

UI & UX Design: Estie Carrillo


Branding: Estie Carrillo

Development & Backend: Jacek Olszewski