About me

Olá! I'm Danilo Prado, but you can call me Dan. Originally from Brazil, I now call Ireland home. I moved across continents to explore the world, immerse myself in new cultures, and build meaningful connections—and I've completely fallen in love with the Emerald Isle.

With over 18 years of experience, I’ve worked across multiple design disciplines, from graphic design and branding to web and product design. For the past six years, I've specialized in crafting user-focused product experiences. I'm passionate about exploring quantitative and qualitative data to deeply understand user pain points and develop modern, innovative solutions to real user and business problems.

My background as a front-end developer helps me collaborate closely and effectively with development teams.

My vast experience and wide range of skills makes me confident in tackling even the most challenging tasks.

Education

Skills

Design & Prototyping: Figma, Figjam, Miro, low and high fidelity prototyping, wireframing, design systems.
User Testing & Analytics: Maze, Lyssna, surveys, A/B Testing, card sorting, 5 second test.
Front-End Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Productivity & AI Tools: Notion, ChatGPT, Gemini, Midjourney

Work Experience

Oct 2021 - Dec 2024 (3 years)

Teamwork.com - Senior UI Designer

Collaborate closely with Product Managers and UX Designers to translate concepts and wireframes into high-fidelity designs.
Design with a strong focus on user needs, ensuring seamless and accessible experiences across all features.
Use Figma to design user flows and fully interactive prototypes to effectively communicate the final vision of the designs.
Support Teamwork's design system by creating new components, refining existing ones, and ensuring adherence to design system standards and guidelines.
Designs and conducts usability tests to validate assumptions and address uncertainties related to design components and user interfaces.
Develop and deliver detailed design specifications to support developers throughout the build phase.
Conduct numerous design QA audits in testing or live environments to ensure pixel-perfect implementation.
Actively participate in an exceptional design team, sharing knowledge and contributing to design critiques and collaborative jam sessions.

Jan 2017 - Oct 2021 (4 years)

Net Affinity - Design Manager

Responsible for all queries related to the design department.
Attend to design meetings and calls with clients to brainstorm bespokewebsites.
Design beautiful and high standard web designs that are mobile first,responsive or adaptive, focused on user experience and inline withconversion department.
Design screens and workflows for Net Affinity SaaS products.
Provide high fidelity prototypes using Adobe XD, InVision and Protopie.
Design marketing materials for Net Affinity communication.
Time quote, manage and delegate tasks within the department.
Supervise the design team to ensure that all work is delivered with highquality standard, excellent UX and Ul and awareness of tech limitations.

Lead meetings with design team to discuss trends, inspiration, tools, SOPs,motivate and promote creativity.

Jan 2012 - Jan 2017 (5 years)

Net Affinity - Web/Designer / Front End Developer

Front end development using the major languages and frameworks such asHTML5, CSS3, SCSS, JQuery, Angular, Javascript and Bootstrap.
Design of website screens and interfaces based on the latest trends and bestuser experience.
Crossbrowser testing and troubleshooting with advanced knowledge ofdev/debugging tools.
Designing and implementating new features for company's booking enginesystem targeting conversion and user experience improvements.
Attending to meetings with clients to brainstorm and/or present ideas anddesigns.
Training of front-dev team with Bootstrap and SCSS/SASS

Sep 2005 - Jun 2010 (5 years)

Fiber - Graphic and Web Designer

Sep 2004 - Jun 2005 (1 year)

DTS Latin America - Graphic and Web Designer

Sep 2002 - Jun 2004 (2 years)

o3 Digital - Web Designer Trainee

Any questions or eager to see more?

If you have any questions or would like to get more in-depth explanation on any of the above, I'd love to share more details with you. 😊

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Check some of my projects

Design System Contributions

Custom Reports Builder