I'm a Brazilian product designer based in Oakland, California currently working for Google as a Staff Designer. I am also the founder of Abduzeedo, an award-winning digital publication about design and a personal project that has become the source of inspiration for millions of designers and enthusiasts.
Since joining Google in 2011 I have had the opportunity to work on incredible projects small and big. From designing and helping the Google Doodles Team, Google Ventures, Shopping Express Mobile as well as leading major products and the vision for Google Search, Android Pay, Google Play Music and most recently Google Play Games
Glass and the blurred effect of refraction and reflection through transparent materials seem to be a big trend now. Well, I love it and have been using it on my Calmaria.app as well as here on the blog.
You have noticed I’ve been sharing quite a few projects featuring 3D compositions that mix the use of glass/crystal objects, most of the time in abstract form, over simple text.
This was the most recent SwiftUI experiment. Nothing fancy just trying to understand how to work with shadows. I’ve done similar effects using CSS if you remember here on the blog.
Hawk is a new brand of Skateboard, which has a BIG purpose. Equality and freedom are the two words that represent Hawk.
Fromsquare Studio, Kuba Piechota and Huge Dayz shared a branding and visual identity proj
We started the designer spotlight to promote designers across the globe. Times are definitely changing, we all live in a pandemic and hopefully soon a post-pandemic reality.
Fresha is an app that makes the connection and booking process with local spa or salon services from your mobile very easy.
I have been quite inspired by how light reflects and refracts lights and objects creating quite stunning visual effects.
The amazing people over at Abstract Logic shared a really inspiring branding and visual identity project for Dope International, a music group and art company supporting work of high q
The super talented designers at dops.digital created a brand new visual language for the e-commerce development company Elogic.
I mentioned in a previous post about my adventures with SwiftUI. It’s fun to learn something new and the least I can do is to share what I learned.
For some inexplicable reason, besides, my lack of attention, I missed this really awesome web design and editorial content website project that Rolf Jensen and
Learning SwiftUI has been a lot of fun. I talked a bit about it before.
Roser Padrés worked on this colorful branding and visual identity project for a timeless lighting system that offers a huge range of playful and experimental configuration
I love the direction web design is heading. It more and more resembles editorial design with focus on great typography and beautiful imagery.
Following my new passion of posting about things that show light refraction or holographic type of effects.
One day when contemplating a particularly awful break-up, lettering artist and illustrator Jessica Molina came up with an idea—what if she could send her ex a nasty letter?
Elefante is a very popular and old Brazilian brand. It's definitely part of many people's lives, including mine. I grew up seeing my mom and grandmother using the cans of tomato sauce.
Last April I decided to create a simple Android app for me to do a breathing exercise that consists of inhaling from your nose for four seconds, holding the air for seven and exhaling from your mouth for eight seconds.
Brazilians Who Design is a place to showcase the work of talented Brazilian designers to the world.