I design by day 🌞, code by night 🌚, and snorkel 🐠 in sunny days, a bit yogui 🧘🏻♂️ and hiking ⛰️ aficionado since lockdown times. Father of Olivia 💚.
Team player, I partner with engineering, product, and business folks, to find elegant but practical solutions.
Following a process of understanding users and industry needs, experimenting and iterating to a solution, I help in product design, including thinking out of the box, prototyping, validation, user experience, interaction and visual design.
Foundational skills
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Detail-oriented
- Growth mindset
- Ownership
- Emotional intelligence
- Multidisciplinary attitude
- Sustainable work ethics
Expertise
- Interaction and UI design
- System thinking
- Visual design
- Accessibility
- Design Systems
- Documentation
- Information Architecture
- User research
Key
learnings
During the years I've understood that Design is not linear, but with a solid team process it´s easy to get better solutions. Here some notes for myself about processes.
🧠 Start with a problem
Discover and prioritize new problems before they even appear. Deeply understand them. Ask questions. Frame them interestingly.
✨ Create hypothesis
Using data can help to decide where to focus (and where to not focus). Pick data sets that are different. Talk to people.
📝 Propose solutions
Transform problems into oportunities. Show a few crazy ways to solve the problem. Involve different roles, win alignments. Balance business & user needs.
🔬 Test
Prototype the solution & test it with users. Learn. Iterate. Repeat. Validate your hypothesis. Don't fall in love with them.
🚢 Build, ship & learn
Focus on systems thinking. Reuse, evolve. Own. Measure how success should look like. Learn about it, write it, share it.
🍫 Add chocolate
It's ok to be boring, try to be good. Go crazy if you can, sometimes if it's fun it's memorable.