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👔 in/vitorgo/

📍 Illinois, USA

My name is Vítor Gonçalves, I’m a UX Designer with a background in web development.

I am passionate about making a useful digital product and I believe in clichés like “teamwork makes the dream work” or “design has the power to improve our world”. I am a web developer shifting to UX Design. As a freelancer, I have planned, researched, designed, developed and deployed complete projects. My background in development, makes me uniquely positioned for better collaboration and brainstorming with cross-functional teams. I have learned the value of design thinking and the methods of UXD, so I’m shifting my career to user experience design.

I also make a mean hot sauce! 🌶

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Summary

• 4+ years of experience in design specialized in UX design and research.
• Different professional environments including a start-up, a family business, and as a freelancer.
• Master’s degree focused on user experience and design thinking for under-represented groups.
• Wireframing and prototyping in various degrees of fidelity from paper to Figma/Adobe XD or HTML5+CSS3.
• Enjoy reducing qualitative data to actionable insights.
• User-centric approach utilizes affordances to craft intuitive and useful experiences.
• Background in development, making for a more collaborative and comprehensive designer.
• Preference for B2B projects.

SKILLS

Pen+Paper, Rapid Prototyping, Wireframing, User Testing, Journey Maps, User Surveys, Figma, InVision, Sketch, Adobe XD/Ai/Ps, WordPress + PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Tailwind, Agile Miro, Notion, Slack, Trello, Gitlab, Google Docs, Microsoft Suite

Language

Fluent in English

Native in Portuguese

Basic in Spanish

💼 EXPERIENCE

Voluntary Experience Designer

Changing Children's Foundation

Sep 2022 - *

Illinois, USA

• Service Design
• Digital Marketing
• User Research
• Website Redesign in Wix

Web Designer & Developer

Self-Employed

Freelancing - Conferences

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

India + Portugal + Germany

• Provide web-related digital product services such as graphical/web/logo design, development, planning, and hosting.
• Keeping abreast with industry standards and market trends in visual design, and low-code methodologies.
• Design and wireframe prototypes from low to high fidelity.