Chilling
About
I collaborate with teams and stakeholders, to create products and design systems, balancing user needs and business value.
Born in Portugal, I moved to Sweden 9 years ago, and have since worked at companies like Ericsson, TriOptima, Mentimeter and Klarna.
During my free time, you can find me mentoring designers at ADPList, trying to spread love and two decades of design/life knowledge. I also post hipster food pics and the occasional rant on social media.
Volunteering
Humbly contributing to leveling-up the current and next generation of designers.
Side Projects
Talks, explainers and tips and tricks for Product Design, Desing Operations and Design Systems.
A curated list of interesting reads, noteworthy information, tools for Product Designers, and others.
A directory of Design Systems made in Sweden and Design System Specialists that work on them.
A survey of the things that matter the most for Recruiters and Hiring Managers when trying to hire Designers in Sweden.
Awards
Speaking
Explore and embrace the new era of Design System with Figma's new features, focusing on enhanced design systems, integration, and AI capabilities for transformative solutions.
Explore the latest strategies and tools for integrating design and code, aligning component information architecture, measuring design system success, and driving system change through innovation.
When Figma libraries grow too big and complex, you will likely run into performance issues. And what to do to fix it. Plus some tips on working smarter not harder.
The evolution of Digital Product Design tools, and how they match the capabilities of CSS and the web.
Writing
A guide to being able to be as hipster with CSS as you are on Instagram 😎
Teaching Designers the basics of code, in an accessible and fun way 🤓
A data-first analysis of the tech gender gap in Sweden.
Features
Nem Tudo o que Reluz é Ouro or Not all That Shines is Gold is a portuguese saying akin to the more international "You can't judge a book by it's cover".
It is also the name of an handmade screen-printed, limited edition illustration fanzine, with work from many other portuguese illustrators.
Work Experience
Joining an amazing team of Designers who work to make your mobile app User Experience as exciting but as trustworthy as your Volvo vehicle.
My contribution will be towards systematizing and scaling Design work via a Design System and other design tooling.
Working with a talented and diverse Design Ops team to scale and uplevel close to one hundred Designers.
Education
Certifications
The fundamentals of AI and it's many faces/challenges and threats