From product thinking to working product.
Hi, I’m Mauro José, a Product Designer working from discovery to delivery, using research, rapid prototyping and AI-assisted workflows.
Every project is unique, so I adapt the process on each one, but the structure is always the same.
Discovery
Understand the problem and its context: market, users, stakeholders, competitors.
Ideation
Explore directions fast: concepts and lo-fi prototypes.
Specs
Business and technical specs, criteria, constraints, edge cases. Written to align whoever’s building, human or AI.
Build
From interface to working product: AI-assisted implementation, coded and tested.
Review & refine
Design quality checked against the spec and the craft.
Ship & validate
Get it in front of real users and validate it.
Learn & iterate
Watch how it performs, feed it back in. The process doesn’t end, it loops.
Discovery
Understand the problem and its context: market, users, stakeholders, competitors.
Ideation
Explore directions fast: concepts and lo-fi prototypes.
Specs
Business and technical specs, criteria, constraints, edge cases. Written to align whoever’s building, human or AI.
Build
From interface to working product: AI-assisted implementation, coded and tested.
Review & refine
Design quality checked against the spec and the craft.
Ship & validate
Get it in front of real users and validate it.
Learn & iterate
Watch how it performs, feed it back in. The process doesn’t end, it loops.
Experiments, prototypes and ideas I build to explore new ways.
1st Place (2025)
Astrolescent Hackathon (Radix DLT)
5th Place (2024)
European Blockchain Hackathon (Radix DLT)
Graphic Project of the Year (2017)
National Catholic Music Award
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.
