Hugo Mendes
Member at Volt Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Mendes is a seasoned UX and interface design specialist with over a decade of experience crafting web and mobile experiences for clients ranging from national research networks to finance and media. Rooted in a creative beginning on the ZX Spectrum, he blends visual design, photography and brand work with hands-on front-end development (HTML/CSS/JS, SCSS/LESS) and strong adherence to web standards and accessibility. He has led UX research, prototyping and usability testing at organizations like FCCN, Banco Best (W3 award-winning mobile work), and FCT, and co-founded a civic mobility initiative, Bicicultura, showing a commitment to socially impactful projects. Comfortable across MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS, Hugo pairs technical fluency with marketing and project management training to deliver on-time, budget-conscious solutions. Notably, his background combines decades-long creative practice with contemporary UX certification (Nielsen Norman) and continuous participation in UXLX events, reflecting both deep craft and ongoing learning.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree, Marketing Management, Licentiate degree, Marketing Management at Universidade EuropeiaEspecialização, Fotografia, Especialização, Fotografia at ETICTechnical, Web, Macromedia, Technical, Web, Macromedia at FLAGHigh School, Arts, High School, Arts at Escola Secundária Fernão Mendes PintoUser Experience Workshops and Conferences, User Experience Workshops and Conferences at UXLX 2015User Experience Workshops and Conferences, User Experience Workshops and Conferences at UXLX 2014Certificate, Usability, UX, Certificate, Usability, UX at Nielsen Norman Usability Week, LondonUser Experience Workshops and Conferences, User Experience Workshops and Conferences at UXLX 2013
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (32)
relevance7
sourceforge7
phrase7
searchable7
thesaurus7
date-format6
million6
faceted-search6
sorting5
creative-commons5
configurations5
searching5
solr5
nutch5
retrieval5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
hmendes/html5-elements
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
arquivo/arquivo-webapp-v1
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Arquivo.pt home page web application
Contributions:42 commits, 19 pushes in 1 month
javascriptweb-applicationarquivo-ptarquivonodejs
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