João Gomes
Lead Product Designer at Nivoda
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Gomes is a Lead Product Designer based in Berlin with a decade of experience crafting user-centered digital products across SaaS, e-commerce and IoT. He blends interaction design, UI and design-systems expertise with hands-on web development skills, enabling end-to-end ownership from research to implementation. At Nivoda he leads the design systems guild while shaping next-generation B2C and B2B2C marketplace experiences and supporting hiring for the design function. His background spans startups, agencies and freelancing across Brazil, Canada and Germany, and includes building design systems in Figma and occasional React/Vue coding. Trained in usability engineering and mechatronics, he brings a rare combination of UX rigor and technical empathy to product problems. Off the clock he’s musically minded—an anecdote he jokes about as “Herald III who plays a pretty decent Lich”—which reflects his creative, multidisciplinary approach.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Communication Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Communication Science at Universidade de FortalezaMaster of Science - MS, Usability Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Usability Engineering at Rhine-Waal University
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (20)
journal10
multiple-languages10
react5
tailwindcss5
hyperapp4
nextjs4
api3
mouseover3
router2
linux2
animation2
javascript2
vercel2
animate2
css1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
uxbyjoao/focus-box
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
uxbyjoao/personal-website
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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