User-Centered Designer | End-to-End Project Specialist | Collaborative & Innovative
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I am a versatile designer with user research, marketing, and front-end experience. I'm highly collaborative, innovative, and user-centered.
I am a versatile designer with user research, marketing, and front-end experience. I'm highly collaborative, user-centered, and data-driven. I prefer B2B projects, but the team is what matters the most!
I have a master's degree in multimedia communications and 4+ years of industry experience as a user experience designer. I have done graphic design for marketing and printing, web design, user research, and web development. While freelancing web services, my most exciting project was transitioning a scientific conference to a digital venue by studying obstacles in users' mental models, designing in collaboration with the scientific organizing committee, and implementing it in WordPress with custom modules. I always establish good communication with all stakeholders to improve efficiency.
My master's degree focused on developing multidisciplinary skills to use modern web technologies while providing a background in design thinking and project management. It was an excellent opportunity to conduct research as a literature review, surveys, interviews, and usability tests, which I have been using since.
Before this career, I worked for nearly ten years as a photographer for our family business, doing outdoor and studio photoshoots, live social events, ramp shows, and digital composition and editing.
BTW, I make a mean hot sauce!
abstract watercolor painting of a flowery pattern in pastel tones - image by DALL-E
“We’re very satisfied with Vítor’s service in providing not only a complete platform to host our conference, but also in collaborating on several aspects of administrative processes and graphical design.”
Sérgio Faria, PhD – IT Leiria – CONFTELE2021
“Vitor was very flexible with every request and was able to deploy a complete platform on a very short notice. This allowed for a very successful transition of the conference to a virtual venue and I think I can say that all participants were very satisfied with the experience.”
Luís Nero, PhD – IT Aveiro – CSNDSP2020
UX Designer (Volunteer)
IL, USA
Web Designer and Developer
Mainly Portuguese clients
Working from India, Germany and Portugal
UI/UX Designer
Ílhavo, Portugal
Digital Media Specialist
Aveiro, Portugal
Lead Photographer
Vila Verde, Portugal
Adobe Creative Suite
Universidade de Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal
This degree focused on developing multidisciplinary skills to use modern web technologies while providing a background in design thinking and project management. It was an excellent opportunity to conduct research as a literature review, surveys, interviews, and usability tests, which I have been using since.
I worked with a time-banking community for my thesis to research and test a prototype. Time-banking communities exchange services denominated by the time they take to provide.
This was a mainly senior and tech-averse community, but after research and testing, adoption was positive.
Universidade de Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal
Pen+Paper, Rapid Prototyping, Wireframing, User Testing, Journey Maps, User Surveys, Figma, InVision, Sketch, Adobe XD/Ai/Ps, WordPress + PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Agile
Miro, Notion, Slack, Trello, Gitlab, Google Docs, Microsoft Suite
English - fluent
Portuguese - native
Spanish - basic
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