Porto · Product · Illustration · Motion
Designing in an AI-first environment at Appning, drawing daily, tinkering with motion on the side.
I am based in Porto. I work across product design, illustration, and motion, and I've spent the last decade or so moving between them depending on what a project needs.
I don't stay in one lane on purpose. The disciplines tend to inform each other: understanding how people navigate a product shapes how I illustrate for it, and animation feels more deliberate when it's grounded in UX intent rather than applied on top. On the motion side I work in Lottie, Rive, and frame-by-frame.
A working grasp of web basics (JS, HTML, React) also lets me navigate AI-assisted development with ease.
This site is mostly an always-in-development quiet corner of the internet for me to keep things I've made and notes I want to remember.
When I'm not at the screen I'm usually drawing, tinkering with motion experiments, chasing a good coffee, or at the beach with my dog Woody. I keep a few side projects going at any time; they're where I try ideas that don't fit a brief.
I'm into tech too, especially retro and unusual gear, whether I'm just trying it out or repairing and restoring it.