Tiago Gonçalves, Designer in Porto, Portugal
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Tiago Gonçalves

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Bio

Tiago is a designer for all things digital. He loves technology, gadgets, video games, board games, and concept art. As a designer, he considers himself rigorous and organized—few things beat the satisfaction of finishing a project and knowing everything is perfectly polished and consistent. Tiago is also passionate about illustration, which he does as a hobby and occasional freelance work, from small canvases to big walls.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Senior Product Designer

2021 - PRESENT
Paytient
  • Created a comprehensive design system to be used both on the responsive web and on mobile apps (iOS and Android).
  • Worked in multi-disciplinary teams with designers, developers, product managers, compliance, and marketing to make a consistent, compliant, and well-thought experience at Paytient.
  • Documented the whole existing Paytient app user flow in a blueprint format document to evaluate problems, pain points, moments of delight and to be able to tackle improvements to the product in a prioritized and logical way.
Technologies: Figma, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo

Senior Product Designer

2020 - 2021
knok Healthcare
  • Created a comprehensive, responsive web design system to be used on all of knok's products.
  • Improved knok's video consultation product with many new features, patient, doctor, and manager oriented.
  • Did several user interviews with patients and doctors to gather valuable data on the most common issues with the product and how to improve it in a customer-oriented fashion.
Technologies: Figma, Maze, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo

Senior UI/UX Designer

2018 - 2020
Nagarro Digital Ventures
  • Created Radius, a design system for RMS (Risk Management Solutions) that covered all kinds of design components, from color and typography to buttons, input fields, and menus, including design tokens.
  • Designed ExposureIQ, one of RMS' next-generation products for insurance portfolio managers.
  • Started the RMS initiative to have custom illustrations consistent with the Radius design system. Created the illustration guidelines as well as several sample illustrations.
  • Pitched a major player in mobile devices in San Francisco for a mobile app intended to be paired with a tracking device for children.
  • Contributed as part of the team tasked with improving Verizon's Digital Signage web platform.
Technologies: Abstracts, Zeplin, InVision, Figma, Sketch

Senior UI/UX Designer

2017 - 2018
Jumia
  • Contributed as part of Jumia's development center, creating and improving digital products for 14 African countries.
  • Designed Jumia One, an all-in-one e-wallet mobile app (iOS and Android) that allows users to top-up cell phone plans, make utility and internet payments, ask for loans, etc.
  • Created a comprehensive style guide that was slowly introduced to Jumia's products, including color palettes, typography styles, and design components.
  • Designed an internal web app that allows Jumia's agents in Africa to manage sales and clients.
  • Redesigned Jumia Pay, a secure digital payments platform used as the main payment method on Jumia's products.
Technologies: Lottie, Zeplin, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch

UI/UX Designer, Creative Director

2014 - 2017
7egend
  • Designed several mobile apps and websites in a fast-paced, creative agency environment.
  • Redesigned the official FC Porto football club mobile app and web portal from the ground-up, a large-scale project that took more than a year to complete.
  • Created the Fnac app for iOS and Android, a large European retail chain selling cultural and electronic products, for its loyalty program in Portugal.
  • Created several client pitches that showcased the company's culture, talent, and projects and included flowcharts, wireframes, layouts, and mockups.
  • Designed the MVP for a food delivery app (Levoo) that launched in Lisbon, including the client's mobile app (iOS and Android) and the restaurant's tablet UI.
Technologies: InVision, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

UX/UI Designer

2013 - 2014
IT Sector
  • Designed several banking-related apps and web platforms.
  • Created assets for the App Store and Play Store, as well as other promotional material (company documents and presentations, social media, etc.).
  • Created the branding for an IT Sector's spinoff company and standardized its product's communication.
  • Worked in close relation to developers, product managers, and stakeholders when creating designs.
Technologies: InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Education

2009 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design

IPCA - Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave - Barcelos, Portugal

Skills

Tools

Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Zeplin, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Maze, Usertesting.com

Platforms

Figma, iOS, Android, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), Windows

Industry Expertise

Retail & Wholesale, Food, Restaurants & Dining

Other

Design Systems, UI Design, Product Design, UX Design, Wireframing, Lottie, Abstracts, UI Components, Design Documentation, Mobile UI Design, Wearables, Advertising Campaigns, Mobile App Design

Experience

  • Wireframing - 6 years
  • UI Design - 6 years
  • UX Design - 6 years
  • Figma - 4 years
  • Product Design - 4 years
  • Affinity Photo - 3 years
  • Affinity Designer - 3 years
  • Design Systems - 3 years

Tools

  • Affinity Designer
  • Affinity Photo
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