José Marques
Senior Product Designer at Publitas.com
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJosé Marques is a Senior Product Designer based in Lisbon with 11 years of experience shaping commerce and travel experiences at scale. He led and grew distributed design teams at Automattic, driving a 79% increase in WooCommerce market share by transforming developer-first tools into intuitive, merchant-focused products. He combines a computer science background with hands-on front-end experience from earlier roles, enabling pragmatic designs that bridge product strategy, UX research, and engineering. As a mentor and consultant he helps startups define product vision, validate concepts, and ship polished, no-code-friendly experiences. Currently at Publitas, he continues to focus on improving discoverability and conversion through thoughtful UX and marketplace design. Colleagues describe him as a designer who balances creative leadership with data-informed decision making and a knack for turning complex flows into concise user journeys.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduation, Computer Science Engineering, Post Graduation, Computer Science Engineering at University of LisbonBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Information Systems at Universidade de Lisboa
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
woocommerce10
javascript10
shopping-cart10
ecommerce10
wordpress10
redux10
plugin10
php10
api10
wordpress-plugin10
commerce10
nodejs10
react10
woocommerce-blocks9
gutenberg-blocks9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
josemarques/artsyfartsy
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
josemarques/simpla_dois
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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