Hi, I'm Matt.
I'm a Brazilian born, American raised minimalist design enthusiast with a passion for user centered solutions. Currently, I'm working as a Senior Interaction Designer at Google.
I'm a minimalist design enthusiast with a passion of surpassing users expectations, consistently elevating product excellence and overall brand experience.
Through principles of human centered design, I’m able to innovatively strategize, conceptualize, and deliver engaging experiences through a product’s life cycle.
Experienced in leading and influencing cross functional and product areas stakeholders to quickly grasp and distill highly ambiguous problems into simple and clear solutions.
Aug 2018 — Present
Senior Interaction Designer
Defined and communicated product design strategy, vision, and guiding principles to team members, cross-functional peers, and stakeholders.
May 2017 — Jul 2018
Toyota
Senior Interaction Designer
Introduced design philosophies for flexible design architecture and contributed to the launch of 3 major enterprise system module.
May 2015 — Apr 2017
JCPenney
UX Designer
Worked across research, UX and visual design on multi-team initiatives to define user experience strategies and prioritize product roadmaps.
Dec 2014 — Apr 2015
Southwest Airlines
Interaction Designer
Delivered customer-focused design solutions, informed by research insights, enhancing key user flows and evolving the design system.
Oct 2013 — Nov 2014
Advocare
UX Designer
Partnered with product, engineering and business leads to deliver experience consistency and cohesion across the product suite.
I want to first say THANK YOU and second say WOW! You exceeded expectations and continue to raise the bar. Love your passion for excellence, GTD attitude, creativity, vision, energy and fire you bring to our team.
Chief Digital & Information Officer at Ford
Matt truly has a gift as an artist and the ability to take an idea and turn it into reality on the screen. Always prompt and hardworking Matt was a tremendous boost to our creative team. Respected and liked by all that worked within him, Matt was a great team player.
Chief Executive Officer at AdvoCare
I thoroughly enjoyed working with Matt, he has a great work ethic and continues to deliver exceptional work. He communicates through unique concepts that deliver compelling stories and solve problems through thoughtful ideas that translate into designs for various mediums.
I would highly recommend Matt, he is always up to the task and he does it in record time. Matt not only delivers exactly what we ask of him, he also finds time to give us his own version which yields original solutions to the problem.
Creative & Art Director at 31,000 FT.
