Vamos Studios is the name I work under: one designer, three practices. Vamos is Spanish for “let’s go,” which is how every engagement starts and how it ends: shipped.
Zero-to-one product design for founders with an idea, and fractional design leadership once you’re live.
Work with meProducts I build and run myself, from Avvio to Vamos. They keep my advice current.
See the appsPortraits, travel and fashion. The same eye, without a brief.
See the photographyTrusted tomove money across borders
Avviomove money across borders
Selected work, each next to the number that mattered.
In-house leadership roles, companies I co-founded, agency years and independent projects. Each one is labelled.
Work with me
AvvioCo-founderCo-founder, head of designPayments volume up 150% in a single month2025 - Now
Avvio BusinessCo-founderCo-founder, head of designMass payouts to 150+ countries2025 - Now
ShakepayIn-houseProduct design leadNPS 80 · recurring orders +86%2022 - 2025
AyloIn-houseProduct designer to design manager150M daily visitors · 15+ designers2015 - 2021
AcquireIn-houseSenior product designer to product design leadCheckout 50% faster than Shopify2021 - 2022
Karbure & PiranhaAgencyGraphic designer to art directorSnowbirds 40th anniversary rebrand2008 - 2015
Le RituelIndependentBrand identity, web and photographyIdentity, site and photography2022-2025From first idea to launch, without building a design team first.
01Core offer
From idea to launched product, with one senior partner.
You have an idea and conviction, but no product, brand or design team yet. This is where I do my best work: it’s exactly how Avvio was built.
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Senior design leadership, two to three days a week.
You’re live and growing, and the product needs to look and feel like a company people trust. You need a design leader before you’re ready to hire one.
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Senior hands inside your team.
One critical flow is stuck (onboarding, payments, checkout) and your team is at capacity.
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Fixed scope, fixed date.
A rebrand, redesign, market entry or launch that can’t slip.
Not for: Logo-only or packaging work, agency overflow, or teams looking for pixels without a voice in direction.
No juniors. No handoffs.
Just the person who built Avvio.
Vamos Studios is me, Dave: 15+ years leading design across agencies, in-house teams and companies I co-founded. Studios, plural, because the work has three sides: consulting, apps and photography. The person on your first call is the person doing the work.
About DaveI build and run my own products. It keeps my advice current.
Read the Avvio story
Vamos: Travel, together or soloMy own travel app. Split costs in any currency and keep a short list of places worth the trip. Built in public, one detail at a time.03 Photography
The third practice. Portraits, travel and fashion, shot for clients and for myself. It’s where the eye gets trained.
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About
I’m David Bouchard. I started my first company, a surf streetwear brand, while studying graphic design. Since then: agency art director, design manager at Aylo, product design lead at Acquire and Shakepay, and co-founder and head of design at Avvio. Today I work as a fractional head of design and staff product designer, under the name Vamos Studios.
Designer, photographer, dad of two. Based in Playa del Carmen, on Eastern time most of the year. English and French. Fintech, AI, SaaS and ecommerce.