Product · Design · Code · AI
Deciding what to build,then proving it works.
About
Over ten years at the intersection of design, technology and product, now working across product design and product management, from first concept through to post-launch evaluation.
I have worked with product teams in Porto and London across connected-vehicle networks, insurance software, healthcare staffing and city-scale public services. The product decision, the interface and the front-end sit in the same pair of hands, and lately the models underneath them too. Passionate about technology, AI and machine learning, business processes, collaboration, simplicity, and creating impactful products that solve real-world problems and actually matter.
How I work
Problem before model
The technology is a means. I start from the job the user is stuck on, then decide whether a model, a rule or a better screen solves it.
Measure, then scale
Nothing ships on a demo. Quality gets a definition and a test before it gets a roadmap slot, and the test stays after launch.
Ship on a schedule
Small releases, often, with clear tradeoffs written down. Momentum beats a perfect plan that arrives late.
Design and build together
I prototype in code. It shortens the distance between an idea and an honest answer about whether it works.
Experience
Uplink
UX/UI Designer & Front-end Developer
Porto Digital
UX/UI Designer & Developer
Veniam
UX/UI Designer & Developer
i2S Insurance Software
Web Designer
Lantum
UX/UI Designer & Developer
Projects
Route, real-time transport and points of interest on one plan. Interviews in Porto, a blueprint for the whole trip, the roadmap, the front-end, and the numbers read again six months after launch.
An operations platform for the municipal teams who fix the city. Three services running on paper, Excel and WhatsApp, one BPMN spine underneath, so each keeps its own process while sharing a system.
Another me
Installation selected for FuturePlaces 2009, an international call for artists and digital-media creatives responding to the festival themes of digital media and local cultures.
Capabilities
Product
Discovery & user research · Service blueprints and journey maps · Strategy and roadmapping · Requirements and tradeoffs · Metrics and evaluation · Stakeholder alignment
Design
Information architecture · Interaction design · Wireframing · Prototyping · UI systems · Figma, Sketch, Whimsical, Maze
Code & AI
HTML · CSS · React · Angular · Node · Django · Model-powered features · Prototyping with LLMs · Output quality checks
Education & patent
Product Management
TheStarter, Cursos Avançados de UX Design
React Global
Geekle
Design Sprint Masterclass
AJ&Smart
Systems and Methods for Interfacing with a User of a Network of Moving Things
US Patent 10110443
Web Programmer, professional training
FLAG
MA, Technology and Digital Art
University of Minho
BA, Graphic Design and Advertising
ESEIG, IPP
Happy to talk about any of it: first idea, product decision, design, code, and the people in between.
Email
diogoffigueiredo@gmail.comPhone
+351 966 191 711LinkedIn
/in/diogofigueiredo81Instagram
@diogoffigueiredo