Profile

UI/Graphic Designer with a restless mind. I bring a strategic mentality and creative thinking approach to solving problems. My motto: keep it simple, but beautiful. Portfolio: behance.net/vinceveras

Experience

UX/UI Designer

Bambelo

Breda, The Netherlands • 02/2022 – 

• Working directly with a cross-functional team of developers, product managers, marketing specialists, and sales strategists, to design, maintain and improve over 15 websites.

• Conducting user and market research to define problems and translate user needs into useful insights, user journeys, and improved functionalities.

• Analysing data to identify problems and opportunities, hypothesising improvement possibilities, designing solutions, and conducting A/B experiments to test them.

• Delivering clear user-centric solutions and clickable wireframe prototypes.

• Presenting the designed work to the internal team and stakeholders, providing compelling and convincing arguments, and collecting feedback.

• Designing wireframes for usability tests and hypothesis validation, and high-fidelity responsive prototypes in Figma, liaising with front-end developers to ensure delivery of the final product.

• Maintaining and advancing the existing design system with some improvements in typography, iconography, component performance, color palette, and layouts.

• Through data analysis (GA), designed an experiment that lowered the error rate on the main landing page input form by 32%, generating 11% more conversions. This new component was later rolled-out to all other concepts of the company.

• Based on findings from GA and usability insights, redesigned the form flow of one of the company’s concepts, increasing the conversion rate by 90%.

Experience

UI & Web Designer, Graphic Designer​

Arquipélago46
Porto Alegre, Brazil • 10/2016 – 09/2019 | Leipzig, Germany • 10/2019 – 08/2021

• Created websites for 40+ clients, using WordPress templates and page builders, reducing development time by 60% of the average in Brazil.

• Brand design for over 30 new companies launching their businesses.

Project Manager and Event Planner

Arquipélago46
Porto Alegre, Brazil • 06/2016 – 08/2018

• Planned and executed a Star Wars themed expo, saving the client 75% the planned budget. Due to its success, the expo was extended to 40 days (from its original 3 weeks). More at: vimeo.com/238943202

• Planned and coordinated a beer experience store for Father’s Day, which exceeded the initial reward exchanging goal by 125%. More at: vimeo.com/238949049

Account and Project Manager

Arquipélago46
Porto Alegre, Brazil • 10/2012 – 10/2016

Main roles involved handling the agencies’ clients, hiring and managing freelancers, overseeing suppliers, planning, and creative coordination.

• Coordinated the brand design and launch of Tag Livros, the largest book subscription club in Brazil, with over 50.000 active subscribers.

Graphic Designer/Digital Illustrator

In Vince Veritas
Leipzig, Germany • 03/2020 – 04/2020

• Digital art project started during the 1st Covid-19 lockdown. Created over 40 art posters and sold them on Etsy, with over 4.500 views, and sales to people all over the world: More at: www.etsy.com/shop/InVinceVeritas

Further Experience

Executive Account Manager

W3Haus
Porto Alegre, Brazil • 04/2011 – 08/2012

Responsibilities: managing clients’ accounts, overseeing budgets and communication strategies, coordinating the workflow with the teams inside the agency, controlling projects’ schedules and deadlines.

• Headed the agency’s team that created a contest aimed at empowering women at driving, helping some of them overcome their fear of driving, and changing a misogynistic public perception that women can’t drive.

• Supervised the agency team who created a virtual rally game that used Google Maps API, designed to enhance the online awareness of the client’s sponsorship of an off-road rally in Brazil’s northeastern region.

Executive Account Manager

DCS Comunicação
Porto Alegre, Brazil • 11/2007 – 08/2009

Main Project: handling Olympikus account, the biggest Brazilian sports shoe manufacturer. Responsibilities: organizing the flow of the chores inside the agency in coordination with other departments, overseeing the final ads’ diagramming and revision, writing reports, and controlling invoices.

Marketing Analyst

Abril Publishing
São Paulo, Brazil • 10/2006 – 10/2007

Responsible for analyzing and reporting on the performance of the 5 sponsors of the Viajeaqui travel website, the first 100% digital project from Abril, which was at the time mainly a print company.

Assistant Account Manager

Agência Escala
Porto Alegre, Brazil • 02/2005 – 09/2006
Main Project: handling Renner account, the biggest clothing chain in Brazil. Tasks involved working with other agency teams, overseeing and approving final diagramming of ads, writing reports, and controlling invoices.