Nuno Santos
Independent Designer & Developer at Coelho Works
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolNuno Santos is an independent Product Designer and Design Engineer based in Tokyo with 13 years of experience crafting brand-led products and shipping polished iOS apps. He partners with early-stage startups as a fractional design lead, combining hands-on UI/UX work, front-end development, and product strategy to accelerate clarity and speed—from customer research to pitch decks. His background includes senior roles at WhatsApp, Google, DeepMind and IDEO, and measurable impact such as conversion and onboarding improvements at Thread. Beyond client work he builds and ships his own apps (Currency, Quick Codes, Big Sur Icons), signaling a long-running, product-first craft practice. Fluent in both visual systems and engineering trade-offs, he’s equally comfortable designing identity and coding the interface.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Graphic Design, Design & Interaction, BA (Hons), Graphic Design, Design & Interaction at University of the Arts LondonProfessional Diploma, Graphic Design and Visual Communication, Professional Diploma, Graphic Design and Visual Communication at Escola Secundária Artística de Soares dos Reis
English, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
converter10
photo10
currency10
currency-converter10
react9
nextjs8
sublime8
ios8
sublime-text8
binaries7
css7
administration7
cli7
command-line-tool7
macos6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nunosans/tatsuro-ninagawa
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
nunosans/nunosans
Jul 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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