From product thinking to working product.
Hi, I’m Mauro José, a designer with over 14 years of experience in visual, ux and product design. Skilled in taking a design brief to a working product.
Selected work
How I work
Every project is unique, so I adapt the process on each one, but the structure is always the same.
- 01
Discovery
Understand the problem and its context: market, users, stakeholders, competitors.
- 02
Ideation
Explore directions fast: concepts and lo-fi prototypes.
- 03
Specs
Business and technical specs, criteria, constraints, edge cases. Written to align whoever’s building, human or AI.
- 04
Build
From interface to working product: AI-assisted implementation, coded and tested.
- 05
Review & refine
Design quality checked against the spec and the craft.
- 06
Ship & validate
Get it in front of real users and validate it.
- 07
Learn & iterate
Watch how it performs, feed it back in. The process doesn’t end, it loops.
my lab
Experiments, prototypes and ideas I build to explore new ways.
JunteSelinhos
The simplest way to keep your customers coming back
TraitWiz
Create NFTS collections like magic.
Achievements
1st Place (2025)
Astrolescent Hackathon (Radix DLT)
- · Built AI-powered crypto assistant using real DeFi data.
- · Recognized as best AI + DeFi solution.
5th Place (2024)
European Blockchain Hackathon (Radix DLT)
- · Developed launch platform with international multidisciplinary team.
Graphic Project of the Year (2017)
National Catholic Music Award
- · Graphic Project for a Catholic Rock band.
- · Designed album visual identity and complete graphic project.
about me
I’m a designer with 14 years of experience spanning visual design, digital products, and web development.
I began my career in advertising and art direction, where I built a strong foundation in visual craft, communication, and brand thinking while working with global companies such as Johnson & Johnson, AkzoNobel, and NSG.
Over time, my growing interest in technology and problem-solving led me from designing for brands to designing and building for the web.
Today, I work across the full product lifecycle — from discovery and interaction design to rapid prototyping and implementation — with a particular interest in AI, emerging interfaces, and the intersection of design and engineering.
Let’s turn the next idea into a working product.
Let's explore it.