Danilo Leal

Danilo Leal

Software Designer @ Zed, He/him

About

A people-centered software designer who dabbles with front-end engineering & nerds out on product strategy.

Contact

Website

Work Experience

2024 — Now

Acting as a designer who codes, contributing directly to the Zed editor itself as well as the website & docs, together with a collection of brilliant engineers.

2021 — 2024

Led the design team to make MUI a one-stop shop for React UI libraries. Supporting various initiatives, from the core products—Material UI, Base UI, Joy UI, etc.—to growing the team & developing a more robust product culture.

2019 — 2021

Led the redesign of the driver app, which involved three major, operationally-wise, very complex rollouts that significantly impacted the whole company. Later on, went deeper into increasing the delivery success rate.

2019 — 2019

Led design for a breakthrough doctor-focused product, which gathered multiple distributed health data points to enable them to see their patients' holistic medical history for more precise and preventive action.

2018 — 2019

Designed the driver app from the ground up, supporting the first country-wide rollout until reaching a considerable maturity level, enabling the team to work on more specific problems such as driver earnings, delivery UX, onboarding, etc.

2017 — 2018

Joined as a design intern and contributed to all things design: from instructional branding animated videos to then landing on product design, helping optimize certain features of the driver app until iFood acquired the company.

Side Projects

2021
Tailwind CSS for Designers

My goal was to explain the fundamentals of Tailwind CSS in a way that was approachable for the Portuguese-speaking design world.

2020
Coop

A streamlined financial organizer that allows you to follow how much you've spent compared to what you've expected to pay.

Education

2014 — 2015
Bachelor of Social Sciences at UFSCar