I’m a User Experience Designer based in London with 10 years of experience, and I believe that Design is all about coming together to solve human problems.
I’ve been here for a few years now, but I’m originally from Portugal. This means my accent might change from British to Canadian or American at a moment’s notice, which is a lot of fun.
I enjoy reading comic books and playing Dungeons and Dragons, like the nerd I am. I am also almost always up for a pint and a chat down the pub. …
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Tim Bouckley
Service Design & Strategy Lead
Goncalo is top-notch UX lead and a great self-starter. He joined our team at what was quite a chaotic time but he put the confusion to one side and started showing real value from day one. He mastered the complexity of the two products he was working across quickly and easily won the confidence of his teams and senior stakeholders. His extensive expertise in UX and Product design was a huge asset to our team.
As a person, Goncalo is easy going, highly professional and a pleasure to work alongside. He received nothing but positive feedback from his colleagues for his reliability and the quality of his work. I strongly recommend Goncalo, I’m only sorry we didn’t get to work together for longer.
Antonguilio La Corte
Product Owner
We hired Goncalo in a freelance capacity to lead a critical phase of UX re-design for a b2b web app, as part of a larger project involving approx 15 people across 3 Product & Technology teams. He successfully delivered prototype solutions (navigation, information architecture, workflow) to improve usability in several key areas, liaising extensively with users and stakeholders throughout the process.
Trudi Roach
Senior UX Researcher
I’ve worked with Goncalo at Aviva on a couple of projects. Goncalo designed experiences to simplify complex financial problems, such as helping people understand how their pensions work or designing a tool to show much money they would have annually in retirement, which we tested in the lab to get feedback. I’ve also mentored Goncalo when he conducted user testing. He’s a quick learner, wrote excellent discussion guides, moderated extremely well, and produces reports with actionable findings. Goncalo will be an asset to any team, as he’s smart, a good teammate and fun to work with.
Ian Alty
Web Software Developer
I worked with Gonçalo and found him to be a great designer. I recommend him to anyone looking for a ui/ux designer.
Tautvydas Derzinskas
Software Developer
I’ve worked with Goncalo at Aviva on a couple of projects. Goncalo designed experiences to simplify complex financial problems, such as helping people understand how their pensions work or designing a tool to show much money they would have annually in retirement, which we tested in the lab to get feedback. I’ve also mentored Goncalo when he conducted user testing. He’s a quick learner, wrote excellent discussion guides, moderated extremely well, and produces reports with actionable findings. Goncalo will be an asset to any team, as he’s smart, a good teammate and fun to work with.
Thomas Imart
Software Developer
Goncalo is a talented UX designer who has been using his skills to create a coherence between our application and transformed a complex application to an intuitive one.
Beside his experience in UI/UX he is also an experienced UI developer who knows Javascript and AngularJS quite well. He is also able to adapt to the environment has he learnt in few weeks how to implement his design into a WPF application using XAML.
In addition Goncalo has a great personality and is a interesting person.
Pedro Azeredo Paixão
Software Engineer
Working with Gonçalo was a very good and profitable experience. As any project, the SIMI project had its moments of greater stress with hard deliverables to be accomplished in short periods of time. Gonçalo was always up for them and never failed showing extreme dedication and motivation levels. Adding to this, Gonçalo is a very easy person to deal with: he is very understanding, creative and implements (design and interface) in record speed times, which is really useful in a project with short deadlines. I hope we meet again one day in our professional lifes.
Raquel Tavares Pestana
Marketing Communications Specialist
Goncalo is very comitted to finding solutions. His Master’s in design, along with his coding skills make him stand out in a market increasingly more demanding. Along with his professional skills, his thoughtfulness and creativity are stand out traits of his personality. (translated)
Jorge Melo Braga
Events Marketing
I worked with Gonçalo for 1 year in Copidouro. He had the role of change and dynamism to the company. Faced with this challenge, Goncalo had the ability to respond to the task, leading, fostering a new interpretation of the role of business in the context of new media. Clearly, Gonçalo, for his efforts, commitment and dynamism, a professional with a promising future.