Duarte Da Graça
Product Design Manager at Gigs
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolDuarte Da Graça is a Product Design Manager with 11 years of experience crafting user-centered digital products across startups and large media and fintech companies. He led design teams at Klarna—delivering a rewards programme and a deals product that cut acquisition costs—and elevated design maturity at Sleip and Anyfin through fast discovery-led processes and mentoring. At The Guardian he redesigned flagship apps and built an accessibility-first storytelling experience applauded by industry leaders, showing his ability to blend inclusivity with measurable business impact. Duarte pairs hands-on front-end contributions (including work on high-profile projects like The Guardian’s DotCom UI) with strategic design system development and cross-functional facilitation. Based in Stockholm, he brings a pragmatic mix of UX craft, people leadership and product thinking, often translating complex ecosystems into simple, scalable interfaces. He also has an analytical background in economics, which informs his data-aware approach to design decisions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Economics, BSc Economics at Universidade Nova de LisboaSvenska som andraspråk, Svenska som andraspråk at ABF StockholmBA Graphic Design Interaction Design, BA Graphic Design Interaction Design at Central Saint Martins, University of The Arts LondonBSc Nationalekonomi, BSc Nationalekonomi at Stockholm University
English, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
react10
html9
css8
vps6
digitalocean6
docker6
ruby-on-rails6
dokku6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 53 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Duarte primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the repository, making changes to HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files. Their commits included modifications to UI components, such as header elements and buttons, along with the addition of new features like follow buttons. They also worked on the implementation of advertisement labels. This suggests the user is involved in the development and maintenance of the user interface.
productionguardian
guardian/docs-interactive-template
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Template for The Guardian documentaries
Contributions:47 PRs, 147 pushes, 57 branches in 4 years 3 months
documentariesguardianinteractive
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