Brazil

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Especialista

Bacharel

Gustavo Theodoro Bourscheidt

Senior Product Designer

Usability Testing

Product strategy

Prototyping

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Team player

Organisation skills

Information architecture

Zeplin

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Axure

Balsamiq

Figma

Miro

Sketch

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

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

Design career path

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

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

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Booking.com is one of the world’s leading digital travel platforms with over 3 billion guest arrivals across all property offerings since 2007. At Booking.com I'm responsible for exploring the experience for the guest facing platform of our group booking solution, aiming to facilitate partners book accommodations during large events. Also, I'm one of the designers responsible for providing the best experience for partners that connect with Booking.com API's.

Main responsibilities:

- Work from ideation to implementation of the features
- Assist the researcher on discovery and testing new features and opportunities
- Align with Product Manager on prioritization and discovery of features and assist on tracking the team tasks
- Work from the beginning of the project, doing benchmark research, building user journeys and wireframing solutions, to the construction of User Interfaces, interactions, prototyping and evaluating results on usability tests
- Sketch, wireframe and design interfaces and User Experience for the group bookings platform.
- Assists the front and back end development teams to make sure UX Design decisions were implemented in the right way on the final product.
- Work together with front-end developers by helping put on code some of the UI decisions (implementation of design)

Technologies used:

Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, Sublime, HTML, CSS.

4all is a technology company focused on digital transformation of its clients. Among many solutions, It develops an all-in-one platform offering different services for every moment of the users day, connecting them, and is also responsible for developing apps for the biggest football teams in Brazil, like Flamengo, Corinthians, Grêmio and Internacional. As a Usability Specialist I am responsible for creating and sustaining the Sports platform and contributed on the redesign of the all-in-one application. I'm the senior designer in the Sports division.

Main responsibilities:

- Sketch, wireframe and design interfaces and User Experience for iOS and Android (React Native) apps.
- Work from the beginning of the Sportech (sports division at 4all) projects, doing benchmark research, surveys, building user journeys and wireframing solutions, to the construction of User Interfaces, interactions, prototyping and evaluating results on usability tests.
- Work side-by-side with Product Owners and Product Managers to help bring the user view on business meetings regarding the evolution of the Sportech platform being built at 4all. 
- Assists the front and back end development teams to make sure que UX Design decisions were implemented in the right way on the final product.
- Responsible for creating and sustaining apps for major football teams in Brazil (Flamengo, Corinthians, Grêmio, Internacional).
- As the senior UX designer on the team, I delegate tasks and help junior designers build better solutions for the company products, not only on the Sportech division but also on other branches of the company.

Technologies used​: Sketch, InVision, Marvel, Protopie, Zeplin, Abstract, Illustrator, Photoshop.

DCG is a company that not only develops an e-commerce platform for its clients, but offers a variety of solutions that help clients achieve better results on their market field. As a UX designer I was responsible for sustaining the current platform with new features and helping create new solutions. I worked as one of the designers responsible for creating the omnichannel POS platform on the CORE system of the company.

Main responsibilities:

- Sketch, wireframe and design interfaces and User Experience for the company solutions, helping support new features and improve current ones.
- Responsible for the elaboration of information architecture, flows, specifications of components, design of user interfaces and development of high-fidelity prototypes for concept and usability validation of the POS platform.

Technologies used​:​ ​Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, AngularJS.

Cartório Digital is a start-up that has as main goal change the notary services on Brazil. Today, most of the services are only offered on site, and the objective of the company is to digitalize this services. At first, I was hired as a front-end developer to work on a AngularJS system, but the lack of definition about the experience and how the system would be made me play the role of UX designer as well, and I helped define the information architecture and UI as well as develop the front-end.

Main responsibilities:

- Sketch and wireframe the first structure of the system along the key stakeholders of the company.
- Elaborate and refine the UI following brand guidelines and previous approved IA.
- Development of Front-End applications using Angular JS.

Technologies used​:​ ​Axure RP, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, AngularJS.

Sketch, wireframe and design interfaces and User Experience for desktop and mobile.  Develop Front-End aplications using Angular JS.

Huia is a digital agency in Porto Alegre, Brazil, that has several clients from different fields of activity. In my time there I was responsible for the front-end development of solutions for Grêmio Football team, Tramontina and Petrobras.

Main responsibilities:

- Develop Front-End applications based on design created by the design team.
- Understand the various techniques of Front-End development and choose the best way to fulfil the client expectations.
- Develop websites in responsive web.

Technologies used​:​ ​Photoshop, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, AngularJS.

ntelly Digital was a digital agency that created several websites focused on the tourism companies. Intelly have a marketing platform that delivers e-mail marketings and SMS for target clients and wanted to offer these clients a digital presence by the ways of websites. I was the only webdesigner and was responsible for all the interfaces developed for these websites, most of them responsive websites.

Main responsibilities:

- Collect data from the client and evaluate solutions to fulfill their needs.  
- Elaborate the UX/UI that best attend the clients projects needs, developing sitemaps and wireframes.
- Develop nice and clean web design for the project, based on the clients visual identity and previously approved IA.
- Develop Front-End projects based on previously approved web designs.
- Assist the Back-End developers when needed, to fully understand the project, making use of the wireframes and designs to better guide the Back-End development.

Technologies used​: Axure RP, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, Wordpress.

Player Comunicação was an advertising agency focused on supermarket companies. I was the art director and created, along with the creative director, all the graphic designs and advertising campaigns for UniSuper, a supermarket company that have stores all over Rio Grande do Sul state, in Brazil.

Main responsibilities:

- Creation of art direction for marketing and advertising, working closely with the copywriter to deliver complete advertising campaigns to retail clients.

Technologies used​: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, CorelDraw.

BT3 was an advertising and digital agency founded by me and a college colleague a little after we graduated. We had some small clients, and I was responsible on creating and developing the websites and email marketings for our clients.

Main responsibilities:

- Art director and webdesigner for different type of clients.
- Responsible for creating, alongside the copywriter, advertising
campaigns, websites, e-mail marketing, and marketing actions.

Technologies used​: Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDraw, DreamWeaver, HTML, CSS.

Gustavo Theodoro Bourscheidt🇧🇷