Went through the Graphic Design program at Restart, in Lisbon, back in 2004, that resulted in an invitation to work with one of my teachers, effectively kickstarting my professional career as a designer. In 2010 decided to pursue academic studies in my field, majoring in Web Design & New Media from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, graduating in the fall of 2015.
You can follow me on Twitter, LinkedIn, Github, Dribbble (although I rarely update it), and WordPress.org
Speaking
Work
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Stripe
Senior Product Designer — Design Systems
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Persona
Senior Brand Designer
Brand, Marketing, and Design Systems
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Abstract
Senior Brand Designer
Project lead, designer, and front-end developer for abstract.com
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Blend
Brand Systems Designer
While nurturing the Blend brand to a new standard, I’ve been working on Blend.com as a marketing and recruiting tool.
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Automattic
Product Designer, Brand Systems Designer
Was involved with a variety of teams since I first joined in 2011, spanning from UI/UX work on WordPress.com social features, to Design Lead on the mobile team around the iOS7 launch. In my last position, I worked directly on the open source core WordPress, and the WordPress.org websites.
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Jornal Público
Lead Web Designer
During my time at Público – one of the largest daily newspapers in Portugal – I had the honor of leading the web design team to bring the multiple web facets of the newspaper to a new level. We worked on setting foundations that are still in place today, and helped hire the team that is still working there.
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Core Factor
Lead Designer
For a short stay at Core Factor, a small IT and web design shop, I did mostly client work, while evangelizing the team to the use of WordPress and it’s advantages.
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Freelancer
Interaction & Graphic Designer
Since I kicked-off my professional career around 2004, I quickly developed a solid roster of clients, some of which I’m still in touch with to this day.
Refferals
Hugo is a creative thinker and a hardworking designer; adept at obsessing over every pixel, never settling for less than perfect work.
My first Creative Director, and the one who hired me, at Automattic
Hugo is one of those designers who has a fundamental passion for good work deep in his bones. He’s collaborative, knows how to work low-fi to hi-fi, and will stand his ground when appropriate (and is usually right) he always wants to learn, looks for design everywhere in the world and deeply cares about doing great work.
Hugo is a creative, talented, passionate designer who knows exactly how to approach any given design problem with unexpectedly beautiful, yet always functional, solutions. As happy with silk screen as CSS, he’s a true polymath, and works comfortably across media and assignments, always bringing a distinctive vision and vibrant outcome to his projects.
We worked together at Automattic on several projects.