Germany

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Universidade Anhembi Morumbi

Universidade de Franca (Unifran)

Universidade Paulista

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Alex Cortes

Senior User Experience Designer

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Product strategy

Communication

Problem-solving

Team player

Organisation skills

Leadership

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

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General mentorship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

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Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

• Improved internal platform usability and navigation efficiency by 35% by leading UX research and a full redesign of Reneo's flagship platform.
• Designed end-to-end interfaces for the “Develop-to-Green” platform, supporting Reneo's €600M capital platform, including a joint venture with Peakside Capital to deploy around €500M in debt and equity for building upgrades, alongside equity from Eurazeo, Foundamental, Lakestar, Goldbeck, and Bauwens, and a senior financing facility from Goldman Sachs.
• Accelerated cross-team development by defining user flows, prototypes, and design system components that aligned three parallel product streams.
• Supported the scaling of sustainable housing initiatives across Germany by designing user-centered products for Condo Group, Living's, and Reneo.

• Cut product delivery time from weeks to days by owning UX design, prototyping, and technical execution end-to-end, eliminating handoff dependencies for US and European startup clients.
• Compressed full cross-functional design cycles into a single execution loop by building production-ready interfaces directly in design systems, no-code platforms (Lovable, Webflow, Wix), and AI tooling.
• Increased delivery speed and decision quality by embedding AI across the workflow, from validating UX decisions to accelerating frontend output and automating data and copy tasks.

• Took multiple early-stage products from concept to launch by leading the end-to-end design process directly alongside founders, without an internal design team.
• Delivered UX/UI, branding, and web design across healthtech, mortgage, insurance, and B2B/B2C marketing clients in New York and San Francisco, adapting to each industry's specific compliance and user needs.
• Improved conversion and brand positioning across multiple client projects by balancing usability, business goals, and speed of execution in close collaboration with product, engineering, and marketing teams.

• Grew brand recognition by 30% by leading a full brand redesign across Exactaworks' product and marketing touchpoints.
• Cut project delivery time by 15% by facilitating client Design Sprints that aligned stakeholders faster and reduced rework.
• Built Exactaworks' UX function from zero by establishing design processes and culture, improving cross-team collaboration and product consistency.

• Kept core business operations running through COVID-19 by digitizing research and delivery workflows that had previously depended on manual, in-person processes.
• Replaced manual data collection with faster, more reliable digital operations by designing tablet-based research interfaces for field teams.
• Improved client acquisition and communication by designing and launching a new company website to support campaigns and partner engagement.
• Guided product decisions from discovery to delivery by applying UX methods such as journey mapping, personas, and wireframing, and by facilitating Design Sprints to align stakeholders.

• Delivered digital products for international clients while studying English abroad, designing web and mobile interfaces focused on clarity and real-world usability.
• Helped teams move faster from problem to solution by running Design Sprints that validated concepts before development investment.
• Applied mobile-first principles to create accessible, responsive experiences across devices.

• Founded Invillia's design department from scratch by transforming the marketing function into a core design capability within the company.
• Delivered interfaces across desktop, mobile web, iOS, and Android by leading design efforts within Agile teams for clients including UOL, PagSeguro, Usina Guarani, and Teleperformance.
• Strengthened the company's internal culture and market visibility by playing a key role in the initiative that led Invillia to achieve its first Great Place to Work certification.

• Increased engagement across client campaigns by creating consistent graphic content, banners, and ads tailored to each brand's identity.
• Strengthened brand consistency for diverse clients by designing logos and visual elements aligned to their positioning.
• Improved visual quality of marketing materials through advanced image treatment and manipulation techniques.

• Maintained visual consistency across formats by adapting existing layouts for multiple media channels while supporting senior designers on client deliverables.
• Improved visual quality of graphic materials, including banners, flyers, and business cards, through precise image editing, color correction, and resizing.

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