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Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Toptal Member Since
September 18, 2017
In Bernardo’s 10+ years as a designer, he’s focused on helping startups and corporations build their digital products and launch their ideas to market. He uses lean methodologies to design, test, and validate products that make users fall in love. Bernardo comprehends that creating a great product requires communication between all parties, solid developers, and a clear-and-thoughtful design solution.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Senior Product Designer
2020 - 2021
powerUp
- Built and maintained a UI component library (design system) for an innovation management software designed from scratch.
- Created, iterated, and maintained the information architecture of the product.
- Designed a wide variety of user flows, wireframes, screens, and prototypes, based on data and research to solve the problems of our different customer segments.
- Conducted several user tests to validate or invalidate assumptions, flows, and ideas, using prototypes combined with different user testing tools.
Technologies: Figma
Senior Product Designer
2018 - 2020
FedEx
- Designed an innovative platform while part of the innovation team of FedEx to help them track parcels' temperature, pressure, and other types of data using the Blockchain to support specific customer segments with sensitive shipments, like hospitals.
- Built a platform to track and solve problems happening to shipments while they were being shipped to reduce the time, cost, and effort that customer support agents and managers in multiple countries took to solve the same problems.
- Conducted research, created flows and wireframes for a pricing platform to help pricing agents and managers in different countries provide the best-suited pricing options to FedEx customers around the globe.
- Integrated the innovation team of FedEx's European HQ for over two years, creating several innovative digital products.
Technologies: Sketch, Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Senior UI/UX Designer | Partner
2016 - 2019
Hub9
- Cooperated with a professional design and development team to create user-focused digital projects for startups and businesses.
- Designed, from MVP to market launch, a prediction market app. Integrated the product team for over a year after launch, creating and improving flows and solving new problems and challenges with other designers and developers.
- Assisted a startup get funding from a major Brazilian airline, enabling them to create an app from scratch that teaches profession-specific technical English to airline pilots.
- Developed from scratch an app/system for a new startup that helps companies manage staff transportation.
Technologies: Prototyping, UX Design, UI Design, Wireframing, User Interface (UI), Product Design, Principle, InVision, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch
Lead UI Designer
2015 - 2016
Fisqua
- Collaborated with a UX and development team to build complex systems and apps for major Brazilian companies.
- Created an app for CVC, the biggest tourism company in Brazil, that helped them manage all their salesmen and performance.
- Designed ITA's new web platform; ITA is one of the most prestigious universities in Brazil.
- Built a system for RNP, the company that first brought the internet to Brazil, which allows them to manage several events that they host throughout the year, together with apps for the participants and staff.
Technologies: Product Design, UX Design, Prototyping, UI Design, User Interface (UI), InVision, Sketch, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
UI/UX Designer
2014 - 2014
6D
- Managed several digital projects that varied from simple websites to complex eCommerce and mobile apps.
- Developed several digital projects for Oi, one of the biggest telecommunication companies in Brazil.
- Designed an eCommerce app for a major Brazilian fashion brand.
Technologies: UI Design, InVision, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Graphic Designer
2009 - 2013
Café
- Started as an intern, quickly became a junior designer, and ultimately performed as a senior designer before my departure.
- Collaborated on several types of design work, from logos and editorial to websites and digital products.
- Created designs for some of the biggest Brazilian companies like Petrobras and FGV.
- Designed websites for numerous Brazilian fashion brands.
- Designed a brand new digital magazine, Uniq; the project was selected for the most prestigious graphic design expo in Brazil.
- Managed entire projects from ideation to launch phase, interacting with the clients all along the way.
- Created the name, logo, and product design for Zimp (a growing startup in the retail/financial world).
Technologies: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Education
2005 - 2011
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Experience
Collaboration That Works
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