Summary
Antonio Costa is a Senior Staff Product UX Interaction Designer with 11 years in product and interaction design, currently shaping learning and education experiences at Google for billions of users. He blends architecture-trained spatial thinking with hands-on hardware and software R&D from roles across Google ATAP, VR/Glass, and AI platform teams, enabling novel sensing and interface technologies. His career spans leadership positions at Google and Uber and creative-director experience at Udacity, demonstrating a knack for turning research and prototypes into launched products like Google Cardboard and Expeditions. Antonio excels at designing interactions where humans and computers collaborate, focusing on how technology mediates experience and learning. Based in Amsterdam, he brings an interdisciplinary practice that combines industrial design, interaction research, and pragmatic product strategy. An often-overlooked strength is his long history of freelance art, design and development work, which gives him rare fluency across craft, code, and systems-level thinking.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Architecture - MArch, Architecture, Master of Architecture - MArch, Architecture at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier
Licentiate degree, Architecture, Architect, Licentiate degree, Architecture, Architect at Technical University of Lisbon, Faculty of Architecture
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Dutch