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

Design & code—contributing directly to the Rust-based Zed editor itself as well as the Next.js-powered site.

2021 — 2024

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

2019 — 2021

Redesigned the driver app to align with a B2B-driven product strategy. Focused on 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' medical history holistically.

2018 — 2019

Designed the driver app from the ground up, supporting the first country-wide rollout.

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

Explaining the fundamentals of Tailwind CSS in an approachable way, tailored 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