André Lopes

Product Designer

Viana do Castelo, Portugal

contact@andreaalopes.com

+351 926 359 197

Summary

With over 9 years of design experience, I'm a Product Designer specialized in UX and UI. I’ve worked end-to-end on products used by millions of users, including leading companies such as Uphold, Capitalise, i-Charging, Staples, Revigrés, and Cotec, in B2C, B2B and B2B2C. My background spans diverse settings, including co-founding my design agency and securing an entrepreneurship grant as a designer in a successful startup.

Professional experience

Digital Product Designer

at Nagarro

Jul ‘24 - Present

Spearheaded the scaling of Nimbus (Zscaler’s Design System), establishing governance patterns and accessibility standards to be used by hundreds of developers and more than 20 designers.

As a member of a Nagarro’s Center of Excellence, the Global Design Studio, I also support the Sales team preparing proposals for project’s applications and prospects.

Jul ‘24 - Present

UX/UI Mentor

at ADPList

May ‘23 - Present

Provide mentorship sessions in UX, UI, Figma, Career Advice, and Portfolio and CV reviews.

May ‘23 - Present

Product Design Consultant

at Uphold

Oct ‘20 - Jul ‘24

Led end-to-end product design for Topper, a fiat-to-crypto on-ramp that generated $1M in revenue within the first 9 months;

Designed onboarding, transaction flows, and payment experiences that simplified crypto purchases for new users;

Collaborated closely with product, engineering, and compliance teams to balance security, regulatory constraints, and usability;

Established several Design workflows, streamlining the entire process between Design, Development and QA, allowing full scalability for the team to grow and speeding up the wireframe-to-live time of new features.

Oct ‘20 - Jul ‘24

Digital Product Designer

at Untile

MAR ‘22 - Jul ‘24

Conducted several initiatives that improved the design process and methodology within the team and the company, such as a Weekly Design Meeting, Critique Sessions, created an Internal Design Toolkit and a fully tokenized Headless Design System;

Being part of a small team, I also became proficient in several subjects of UX and UI, such as User Research, User Testing, UX Writing, User Journey Mapping, Wireframing, Hi-fi Prototyping, Typography, Iconography, and Animation;

Collaborated with more than 25 companies, including Uphold, Capitalise, i-Charging, Staples, Revigrés, Cotec and many others.

MAR ‘22 - Jul ‘24

Co-Founder and Head Designer

at PICUS

Jan ‘13 - Feb ‘16

Co-led and grew a company through an economic recession, scaling our projects from a few and small local businesses to international projects;

Learned how to manage day-to-day unforeseen challenges, as well as a team of 8;

Forged strong client relationships, and efficiently managed projects and finances as a co-founder.

Jan ‘13 - Feb ‘16

Product Designer

at Sioslife

Oct ‘12 - Jan ’14

Played a pivotal role in the company's early development, securing an entrepreneurship grant as part of a dynamic 3-member team;

Had my first contact with User Interviews, UX Research and User Testing with very specific target groups;

Responsible for everything related to design, from Prototyping and Testing, to Branding elements and the Website.

Oct ‘12 - Jan ’14

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Product Design

Sep ‘09 - Jul ’12

Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo

Sep ‘09 - Jul ’12

Skills

User experience

User research

Wireframes

User testing

User interface

Hi-fi Prototyping

Design Systems

Mobile UI

Other

Figma

Motion Design

HTML & CSS

Courses

Design Systems: Scale implementation

The Starter

mar '24

AI for Designers (Distinction: Top 10% in Class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

jan '24

Digital Accessibility Foundations

Lisbon Digital School

nov '23

Workshop UX Research

EDIT. - Disruptive Digital Education

nov '23

Mobile UI Design (Distinction: Top 10% in class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

aug '23

Visual Design: The Ultimate Guide (Distinction: Top 10% in class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

jul '23

Workshop Visual Design

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

jun '23

Conducting Usability Testing (Distinction: Top 10% in class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

jun '23

Workshop UX Writing Foundations

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

may '23

Mobile User Experience (UX) Design (Distinction: Top 10% in Class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

dec '22

How to Communicate with Typography

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

apr '22

UX Writing: How To Use Words As A Design Power Tool

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

mar '22

21st Century Design with Don Norman

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

feb '22

Psychology of Interaction Design: The Ultimate Guide (Distinction: Top 10% in Class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

dec '21

Beyond Interfaces: The UI Design Skills You Need to Know

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

nov '21

User Experience: The Beginner’s Guide (Distinction: Top 10% in Class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

mar '21

Visual Elements of User Interface Design

Coursera

sep '20

Additional information

Languages

Portuguese (Native)

English (Native)

Spanish (Intermediate)

French (Basic)

Hobbies

Cooking & Baking

Triathlon

Star Wars Lego Collection

Guitar, Bass and Drums

Interests

Psychology

Chess

Web3