Summary
Flavio Budoia is a Senior UX and Product Designer based in Helsinki with nearly two decades of design experience and an explicit remote-first mindset. He has transitioned from visual and UI design into user research, product design, design system management, and team leadership, ultimately specializing in Game UX for AAA titles like Tom Clancy's The Division and Star Wars. His career spans startups, enterprise banking, and leading game studios, reflecting an ability to translate user-centric practices across industries and complex production pipelines. Flavio champions open, transparent teams and deliberate knowledge-sharing as core to healthy product development. Outside work he brings a martial-arts-fueled, high-energy curiosity to parenting and creative play—traits that inform his pragmatic yet adventurous approach to design. Fluent in Portuguese and English, he treats problem-solving as his de facto working language with a collaborative, team-first accent.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Design e Comunicação Visual, Bacharelado Design e Comunicação Visual at Centro Universitário Ibero-Americano
Portuguese, English