João Piedade

XING is a social network for business professionals focused on the German-speaking market. I’m part of an international team distributed between 2 countries and we are working on B2B E-recruiting products. I’m responsible for the interaction and visual design of these products. I’m also part of the design team responsible for the creation of design patterns and a Sketch master file used by all the 50 designers in the company.

I was invited by one of the co-founders of TravelPerk to work for the 1-week old start-up and reinvent the way companies book and manage business travels. I was the first UX Designer to join the company (officialy employee #5) and crafted the first wireframes and visual designs for the first public website and MVP. I also created their first design guidelines book for future designers.

Booking is an online accommodation booking website and I joined them in July 2014 to work on user research and user testing for a new B2B product. After research I was also responsible to create wireframes and visual mockups to implement new features in the product. I was working in the Barcelona office within an international team and a remote team in Seattle.

At log I worked as a consultant in a wide range of projects for companies like Victoria Insurance, AdvanceCare and Portugal Ministry of Justice. I had the opportunity to join the company when we were restructuring the UX methodology for future projects and was involved in research. My tasks ranged from the creation of wireframes, visual design mockups and coding prototypes (so called click-dummies) for user testing.

While I was in university, one of my professors invited me to work for his company Biodroid, a famous game and entertainment studio in Portugal. As a Front-end Developer I was responsible for developing a Samsung Smart TV app for London 2012 Olympic Games. The TV app was entirely made with HTML5, jQuery/JavaScript and Samsung Smart TV SDK.