João Araújo
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João Araújo

Senior Product Designer in India • Remote, He/Him

I launched an iOS app to manage friends, family and colleague's timezones: globezones.com/

A month ago

About

In the past I’ve learned from dropping out of uni courses, meeting people from all over the world, moving to a new country, being vulnerable and actively listening. Always cheering for the underdog. Loving what makes people irrationally mad. It’s always OK to find.

Speaking

2021

In this episode, I discuss with Maria Borysova (host of the Health Tech Matters Podcast) how to make remote user interviews insightful, chronic conditions treatment and prototyping on the fly.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
2022 — 2024
2021 — 2021
2020 — 2020
2019 — 2020
London, United Kingdom

→ Led the design of a solution to sync ordered prescription and medication reminders to increase medication adherence.
→ Researched and led the design of solutions to help healthcare professionals run better appointments with their patients.
→ Designed a solution to help people track their symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019 — 2019
London, United Kingdom

Research, prototyping and UI Design of solutions to help Customer Support teams find more efficient routes for couriers (Internal).

2018 — 2018
Braga, Portugal

Research and prototype new products to increase accessibility to digital assets, including fiat and cryptocurrencies.

Side Projects

2024

I built an iOS app using ✨ AI.

I had never written a single line of Swift or even installed Xcode 2 months ago. My goal was to see if I could build an app with English. Turns out it's possible.

These are exciting times for how anyone can prototype and build software with the help of AI tools.

You can download the iOS app 🌐 Globezones. It helps:
→ See your contacts' timezones
→ Convert timezones (helps with "when is it a good time to call my friend?")
→ See who's available and who's not
→ And more to come!

Get the app: globezones.com (and share your feedback!)

If you'd like to discuss more about prototyping and building with AI, I'd love to share my experience. Feel free to reach out :)

2023

Art project where I am exploring how we consume technology to deal with difficult emotions.

If you have a story you want to share, feel free to reach out. I'd love to attempt to represent in this project.

2022

I had to pause this because of time ⏸️

Every week I'll listen to podcasts and interviews to learn about what gets artists inspired. And then I'll share it with you. Tidbits from successful artists in your mailbox. Get inspired.

2020

I was designing a cover art for a song but wanted to test how it'd look on Spotify.

So I designed a Spotify Song Preview.

Duplicate it and test your song/album covert art designs. Everything is a vector, so you can export it worry-free :)

I am in no ways associated to Spotify.

Volunteering

2016 — 2017
Braga, Portugal

→ Lead a highly motivated team
→ Send 2 people on international leadership experiences (to Brazil & India)
→ Host corner meetings between several departments

2016 — 2017
Braga, Portugal

→ Lead 1 team
→ Define social media strategies
→ Establish partnerships with Youth Alliances
→ Contribute to AIESEC Portugal national strategies
→ Support Social Projects departments

2017 — 2017
Braga, Portugal

→ Analyse committee's performance
→ Give direct advice to the presidency

2016 — 2016
Braga, Portugal

→ Support on Social Projects departments from AIESEC Local Committees all over the country.
→ Focus was the refreshment of the Social Projects brand at the national level to which I contributed with branding guidelines

Education

2018 — 2018
Porto, Portugal

Learnt about User Research, User Testing, UI/UX Design and Agile methodologies with designers from BBC, Smashing Magazine, MailChimp and more.

Had the opportunity to work in projects for companies such as Last2Ticket and Hostelworld.

2014 — 2017