I'm a Web expert, Designer and Coder at SuperTINY, in Portugal.
With over 15 years of experience in all areas of digital creativity, I'm a self-made designer, coder and investigator with extensive knowledge in a wide array of tools and technologies.
Photoshop
Blackbelt.
Illustrator
Blackbelt.
HTML + CSS + jQuery
Full domain over layout & responsive.
Flash
To the point of making small games.
Blender 3D
Solid modelling, rendering, basic animation.
Cordova
For mobile development, mostly prototyping.
ProcessWire
Built this site with this awesome free CMS
PHP + MySQL
More theory than practice, with solid knowledge on how servers work with content.
Back in 2000 I co-founded front.end, a digital agency in Portugal. Its small structure challenged me to solve many problems that required learning things outside of my comfort zone. I learned flash having to deliver a collection of games, web standards and accessibility landing projects for the portuguese government, and just about everything else in do-or-die scenarios.
In this experience I've acquired knowledge in just about any field a design and digital agency performs in, becoming above all else, an expert problem solver.
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Volvo Portugal approached us with the need to develop a web-based CRM tool that would simplify and control nationwide sales activity. As an ongoing and ever growing project, my team's job was to lay down a solid set of design and UX rules and resources that would allow new features to be added by the hands of our engineers without ever compromising the overall look and feel.
Design: Bruno Afonso.
Coding: Lino Pereira & Ricardo Leite.
Dolce Vita is a shopping mall group, counting 8 across Portugal. One of these malls is among the largest in Europe. The request: One website for each mall, using a simple, modern, responsive layout that's cohesive and unique, powered by opensource CMS.
We chose ProcessWire for the CMS. As for the layout...
Design: Carolina Castro.
Coding: Ricardo Leite & Nuno Martins.
APDL's annual report (2014) slims down the standard printed behemoth into a simplified version featuring only the hilights, backed up by digital version where readers can find all the detailed information they may need.
The challenge here was to develop a javascript engine of sorts, that would allow easy content addition and revisions, and could be deployed anywhere from APDL's website to a pendrive.
Tangram concept: Gabriela Maia.
Content churning: Joana Fontinha.
"Sodecia is an industrial corporation operating worldwide as a full service supplier in the chassis, powertrain and body in white commodities." - In other words, they build auto parts for a good chunk of the major car brands.
What started as a site redesign request quickly evolved into a complete brand overhaul.
Design: Eugénia Gomes & Carolina Castro.
Animation: Bruno Afonso.
Coding: Pedro Gonçalves
Call of the Wild organizes obstacle races in Portugal. CotW events are tough and dirty, and these attributes led to the overall feel of the website, balanced by white backgrounds and straight type.
Design: Carolina Castro.
Coding: Ricardo Leite.
