I'm on a lifelong mission to improve products for people through craft and by being a catalyst for collaboration between design, engineering, and product ❤️
Born in Portugal, I moved to Sweden 12 years ago, and have since created Design Systems people want to use at companies like Ericsson, TriOptima, Mentimeter, Klarna, and Volvo Cars.
During my free time, I mentor designers, sharing over 20 years of accumulated knowledge. I also play video games (as a former journalist), and read/watch sci-fi, fantasy, and manga/anime. I'm known to post hipster food pics and the occasional social media rant.
What if a company rebranding could be about more than communication design? That's the question my team at Ericsson got asked.
Our reply was a brand-new user experience strategy that culminated in an award-winning Design System and kickstarted a company-wide mindset shift.
To test just how flexible the new Ericsson Design System and our UX Design principles were, my team was challenged to imagine how one of our web-based interfaces would translate into a virtual reality experience.
A story about how a small but mighty team of designers with very little development resources created a tech stack agnostic and modern Design System, used on several products that have helped compress thousands of trillions of dollars in gross notional in the OTC financial market.
Videos about Design Ops, Design Systems and Product Design
Component libraries and other freebies I made along the years
Articles about Product Design, code and the tech industry
Design Systems made in Sweden, Swedish DS Specialists, jobs, and events
An opinionated narrative of how much money I made as a Designer in the past
Notion template to keep tabs on your job-hunting activities
What matters to Swedish hiring managers
Run better design critiques that energize folks and improve the work
Temporarily lock any tab/site on Google Chrome
Filter out unwanted posts from your LinkedIn feed by muting keywords
Like most wild Designerus millenius, I can be easily spooked with phone calls, as they are strongly associated with one of our primal predators, the Telemarketerus obnoscius.
Good old email is a safer bet, so use just use the form to reach me!
Or just find me on LinkedIn, maybe 😜
