United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Bachelor's Degree

Diploma

Diógenes Brito

CEO & Head of Design

Public Speaking

Communication

Collaboration

Critical-thinking

Team player

Presentation skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Balsamiq

ChatGPT

Figma

GitHub

JavaScript

Adobe Creative Suite

REST API

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

Design career path

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

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

Being the only designer

Working on opening Williamsburg's premier licensed dispensary, and the technology powered cannabis brand of the future. Investors welcome.

- Leading new AI projects
- Coach and mentor product and design team
- Advise executive staff on product and design process, development, and strategy

- ARR increased 4x during my time at Air
- Represent Product Management and Design on the executive team as a strategic partner.
- Drove the creation, adoption, and execution of a new product vision and roadmap.
- Manage a team of 6 product managers and product designers, growing them into leaders.
- Increase the pace and quality of product development and user experience.

- Act as a strategic design partner on the leadership team
- Drive recruiting, hiring, management, and development of all members of the design team
- Help guide product strategy, set design best practices, and represent design to the broader org.
- Help the big wigs keep it actually real with the crew

- Chillin’ like a villain with the winnings. 
- Met and proposed to my wife

- Making your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. 
- Lead designer on Slack’s Workflow Builder Product
- Currently focusing on Workflow Builder extensibility features
- Managing designers working on Workflow Builder

- Making your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. 
- Generally working on Slack platform initiatives. 20+ projects shipped to date as lead or sole designer.
- Lead designer on Workflow Builder

Making your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.

• Taught Introduction to Web Design & Development
• Designed and iterated on a 16 week, 96 hour curriculum

• Worked with the founder and Lead Interface Director to design beautifully simple and elegant user work flows and interfaces.
• Collaborated with the product design team to simplify and enhance the content management interface.
• Worked with front and back end developers to define server side and client side requirements and architectures for UI components and workflows.
• Prototyped working design ideas and develop production ready UI components based on our design work.

• Designed and developed dozens of reusable UI components using JavaScript (YUI3), HTML, and CSS
• Wrote the JavaScript powering the Squarespace 6 billing and checkout pages
• Designed and developed a new, high-throughput interface for the 24/7 support specialists
• Increased the amount of documentation in client side code by a factor of 10
• NYC Turing Fellow (http://nycturingfellows.org/fellows)

• Architected and programmed a web tool rolled out to 90% of all Google employees worldwide
• Designed and implemented an easy to use interface for managing internal event metadata
• Conducted and analyzed ethnographic research on employee benefits programs

• Created residential environments that enhance student academic progress and success
• Promoted the intellectual life of the residence and created opportunities for students to explore and clarify their interests, values and attitudes
• Built inclusive and reflective environments in which differences of background and belief are explored and provided personal and academic counseling and referral
• Made myself available to students, and encouraged student responsibility and accountability

• Designed and prototyped a social commerce application leveraging consumer behavior data
• Analyzed and identified patterns within consumer behavior simulations 
• Presented a new social media strategic plan to the executive management and core staff

• Coordinated remote deployment of critical business applications to over 90 users
 • Successfully closed 300+ helpdesk support tickets
 • Developed and implemented new loaner laptop management system

• Insured confidential client data on 200+ laptop computers
• Upgraded 50+ laptops for employees with outdated or obsolete hardware
• Imaged and prepared 150+ computers for new hires

Design and develop full featured websites and web applications from the ground up, including but not limited to the creation of the information architecture, wireframes, design comps, HTML/CSS, front end and back end code for dynamic sites, and cross-browser testing.

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