Résumé
Nine years across agencies, product teams and my own studio.
Product designer & front-end developer
Senior, hands-on designer with a developer's toolkit. I lead projects end to end: research, UX, visual design, design systems and production front-end in React and Astro.
Comfortable leading small teams, presenting to founders and pairing with engineers.
- Lisbon, Portugal · remote worldwide
- English, Portuguese, Spanish
- Available from November 2026
Work history
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2023 – now
Independent · Omnira Folio
Product design, identity and front-end for 30+ clients including Fieldnote, Orbit Finance and Tempo.
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2020 – 2023
Senior Product Designer · Northloop
Led a team of four designers on a travel app with 2M users. Created the Loop design system, cutting design-to-dev time by 35%.
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2018 – 2020
Designer & Developer · Studio Ferro
Designed and coded websites for museums, festivals and publishers in Portugal.
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2017 – 2018
Junior Designer · Casa Grafica
Editorial layouts, posters and packaging for local brands.
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2013 – 2017
BA Communication Design · University of Lisbon
First-class degree. Thesis on typography for small screens.
Strengths at a glance
Self-assessed, then double-checked with former colleagues.
- Figma, FigJam, Framer
- Blender, After Effects
- React, Astro, TypeScript, CSS
- User research & usability testing
Talks, teaching & side projects
Design Systems Day, Lisbon 2024
Talk: 'Twelve components are enough'.
Guest tutor, IADE Lisbon
Interaction design studio, 2022 – now.
Tabula, a dashboard typeface
Open-source, in progress.
Mono Type Collective
Volunteer printer and poster designer since 2019.