THE HOOMAN LOOP

Product clarity for founders and teams

Turn complex product ideas into clear, usable systems.

The Hooman Loop helps founders and product teams make sense of complicated ideas, workflows, and experiences through strategy, UX, prototyping, and decision architecture.

What we help unblock

When the product is hard to explain, the work needs structure.

Sometimes the idea is strong, but the product shape is not clear yet. Sometimes a team is stuck between strategy, interface, operations, stakeholder debate, and AI possibilities.

Hooman Loop works in that messy middle: founder-led products, B2C experiences, workflow-heavy platforms, onboarding, dashboards, service flows, internal tools, and human-in-the-loop systems where trust and clarity matter.

How we work

Structured engagements that turn ambiguity into product direction.

Service 01

Thinking Session

A focused strategy conversation for founders and product leaders who need to make sense of a messy idea, workflow, or decision before committing the team to a direction.

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Service 02

Product Clarity Sprint

A short, structured engagement that turns ambiguity into product direction, priority decisions, draft flows, and artifacts your team can react to quickly.

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Service 03

Decision Architecture

A deeper working partnership for complex product moments: stakeholder alignment, workflow design, product strategy, service flows, and high-trust experiences.

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Service 04

AI-Native Prototyping

Rapidly shape tools, product concepts, and human-in-the-loop workflows with AI-assisted design and prototyping, so the team can test the system before overbuilding it.

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Selected work

Designed for real-world complexity, not portfolio theater.

Selected product work from senior in-house and contract roles across enterprise security, certification, field operations, and financial services. Each outcome below is a measured result from that work.

Enterprise learning / security

Turned a fraud-heavy access model into a scalable enterprise product path.

Reframed a promo-code abuse problem as an enterprise systems opportunity, reshaping access, controls, and purchasing logic into a secure, commercially viable experience. Fraud incidents went to zero and conversion lifted 30%, per the executive product leader who led the program.

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Zero fraud incidents

Certification / mobile UX

Simplified a fragmented learning journey into a clearer certification experience.

Led a redesign that reduced confusion, improved progress visibility, and made the path feel more understandable across devices, especially for busy professionals working outside standard hours. Support tickets fell 18% and certification time dropped 23%.

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18% fewer support tickets

Field operations / dispatch

Helped modernize a paper-heavy dispatch workflow into a real-time mobile system.

Designed around real-world constraints like field use, low connectivity, and operational visibility to support faster execution for technicians and dispatchers alike. Dispatch time fell 47%, adoption reached 95%, and paper dispatching hit zero in six weeks.

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47% faster dispatch

Luis is the kind of designer who makes teams better simply by being part of them.
Michael P. Lead UX Designer
Luis brings sharp insight, expert design skill, and strategic clarity to everything he touches.
Keriann S. Principal Product Manager
Incredibly talented at getting senior stakeholders on the same page through masterful UX workshops.
James B. Sr. Experience Design Manager
One of the most talented, kind, and gifted product designers I have ever engaged with.
Patrick O. Executive Product Leader

Working model

A product partner who works with your team, not around it.

01

Diagnose

Understand the idea, workflow, users, constraints, and decision pressure around the product.

02

Clarify

Name what matters, what can wait, and what the team needs to decide before building.

03

Prototype

Turn direction into flows, interfaces, and artifacts that make the product easier to discuss and test.

04

Ship + evolve

Support implementation, refinement, and system thinking so the work keeps compounding.

Luis Cielak leading a product strategy workshop, holding note cards beside a flip chart.
Luis Cielak — Decision Architect

About Luis

Led by Luis Cielak.

People come to Luis when a product, workflow, or idea needs to make sense. He brings 15+ years of product strategy, UX, and systems thinking to ambiguous work across healthcare, fintech, insurance, industrial safety, e-commerce, AI workflows, and service platforms.

Through The Hooman Loop, Luis works with founders and product teams on product clarity, decision architecture, prototyping, and human-in-the-loop systems. He also organizes Cursor Philly, a 200+ member community for builders using AI in real work.

Originally from Mexico City, now based in Philadelphia. Bilingual in English and Spanish.