Tiago Machado, Designer in Lisbon, Portugal
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Tiago Machado

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Bio

Tiago is a designer, maker, and lecturer who designs and builds physical and digital artifacts used by thousands of people daily. He also teaches and researches in the digital experience design field, speaks at design and tech events, and travels whenever possible.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Course Head and Lecturer in the Postgraduate Course in Digital Experience Design

2015 - PRESENT
Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon
  • Co-founded the course, structured the entire curricular plan, and head hunted the lecturers for each course unit.
  • Served as course head, managing the day-to-day operations, scientific coordination, and everything in between.
  • Lecturer of the course unit "Digital Experience Design Project". It's the main course unit and it focus primarily in the processes, methodologies, tools and techniques needed to design, build and launch cutting-edge digital projects. Students are expected to develop end-to-end projects, according to several briefings deployed throughout the year, where they apply the knowledge acquired in the several course units.
  • Co-organized several events called "Digital Experience Design Talks". Each event had 2 presentations made by seasoned professionals from the industry. We curated the speakers by theme, trying to pair complementary subjects and presentation styles. Invited professionals work (or have made work) for companies like Microsoft, Gitlab, Faber Ventures or Impossible.
  • Connected talent with recruiters and companies on a regular basis.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, Adobe CC, MindNode, InVision, Sketch

Head of Design and Multimedia

2013 - PRESENT
Instituto Superior Técnico
  • Managed a multidisciplinary team made up of designers, photographers, videographers, and technical content managers.
  • Acted as a brand manager, creative director, and product manager inside the institution, overseeing every institutional communication material, either for physical or digital media.
Technologies: WordPress, Git, CSS, HTML, MindNode, Adobe CC, Sketch

Founder

2006 - PRESENT
Playout
  • Founded and managed a small independent design consultancy.
  • Developed self-initiated experimental projects and worked for a small set of hand-picked clients. Projects ranged from brand identity to digital product design and clients included organizations like Público Newspaper, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, and FCT (the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology).
Technologies: Git, CSS, HTML, Adobe CC, MindNode, InVision, Sketch

Designer

2010 - 2013
Instituto Superior Técnico
  • Contributed to visual communication and digital product design including brand identity, editorial design, marketing campaigns and merchandising for the institutional projects, and user research, information architecture, content-strategy, user interface design, interaction design, prototyping, front-end development and usability testing for websites, web applications, and newsletters.
  • Developed and managed several end-to-end projects at the same time, working directly with stakeholders ensuring that the established KPI's were achieved.
Technologies: Subversion (SVN), WordPress, Git, CSS, HTML, InVision, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Fireworks

Designer

2008 - 2009
Seara.com
  • Developed digital product design for a broad range of clients.
  • Contributed to hands-on brand identity, information architecture, user interface design, interaction design, prototyping, front-end development for websites, web applications, and newsletters for renowned national and international brands, both for horizontal and vertical markets.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Fireworks

Designer

2007 - 2008
Público
  • Contributed to editorial design, both for the newspaper and its supplements, but also included illustration and web design.
  • Prepared the layouts for each page in coordination with the several section editors, layout iteration, content editing with journalists and editors, and validating and shipping the pages for production.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Education

2016 - 2020

Student in the Doctoral Programme (PhD) in Fine Arts (Communication Design)

Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon - Lisbon, Portugal

2010 - 2015

Master of Fine Arts Degree in Communication Design and New Media

Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon - Lisbon, Portugal

2002 - 2006

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Graphic Design and Advertising

School of Management and Industrial Studies, Polytechnic Institute of Porto - Porto, Portugal

Skills

Tools

Sketch, MindNode, Adobe InDesign, InVision, Adobe CC, Adobe Fireworks, Subversion (SVN), Git, Adobe Photoshop, Sublime Text, Adobe Illustrator

Languages

CSS, HTML

Platforms

WordPress, iOS, MacOS, Web, Android

Industry Expertise

Events, Banking & Finance, Education

Other

Responsive Web Design (RWD), Creative Direction, Art Direction, Branding, Digital Product Design, UX Research, UI Design, UX Design, Brand Identity, Budgeting, Management, Websites, SaaS, Apps, Microsites, Themes, Mobility, Networks, Competitor Analysis & Profiling, Content Management Systems (CMS), Sitemaps, User Flows, Usability Testing, Mockups, Digital Experience Design, CodeKit

Experience

  • Web - 12 years
  • Adobe Photoshop - 12 years
  • Adobe Illustrator - 12 years
  • Sketch - 7 years
  • iOS - 7 years
  • Android - 7 years
  • CodeKit - 4 years
  • Git - 4 years

Tools

  • Sketch
  • Git
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
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