Rafa Smith

Rafa Smith’s Bio

Rafael is a designer and social entrepreneur with experience tackling challenges from emergency shelters to software design. He is a designer and entrepreneur whose work has ranged from consumer products to software development. Over the last decade he has brought industrial and interaction design expertise towards creating consumer products in the U.S. and Europe for manufacturers like Bosch, SunBeam and Pyrex. Most recently, he has been the lead designer at Solar Mosaic, an online investment platform for clean energy.

He is the founder of Uber Shelter, a company focused on designing shelters for disasters in Haiti, Venezuela and Japan. As the lead designer and founder of the startup, he took products from inception to market.
Rafael has been a mentor for the Unreasonable Institute in Mexico and advises other entrepreneurs on how to apply rapid prototyping and lean startup techniques to their businesses.