Product Design Immersion

It was a pleasure working with Felipe. He is a calm presence, communicates clearly, offers great insights, and leads excellent workshops. During his time at OpenSC he also made really significant improvements to our approach and processes around user research which will stand us in good stead for the future.

I follow Felipe's work since the early days of his contributions to Choco la Design, a (former) top-rated blog in Brazil, targeting thousands of designers in the country. However, I met him for the first time in 2015 in Berlin, when we were running a world tour to introduce Project Comet, a brand new tool from Adobe that later became Adobe XD. You can see his drive and dedication by the way he speaks and engages with the community, always trying to share knowledge and inspire others. I highly recommend Felipe to any company looking for a passionate UX Designer with global experience, able to bring different perspectives to any project, alongside robust processes and methodologies targeting innovation and successful UX.

Felipe made guest appearances on our team and was super helpful and insightful during his brief time with us. Having connected with him on LinkedIn I’ve enjoyed his journey and I really value his outlook on life. He lives the mantra of Be Kind. I’d love to work again with Felipe in the future should our paths cross.

Felipe is the multi-talented designer with strong effort to achieve goals. He was an indispensable part of the team with deep thoughts and profound UX / UI sensibilities. Always motivated, with many ideas how to move the project to the higher level and enthusiastic person. Thanks Felipe for the opportunity to cooperate with you.

Felipe is in a league of his own. I’ve had the pleasure of working with him on multiple projects where his experience, talent, wisdom, and personality were central drivers of the quality of our work. He’s a true embodiment of agile principles and knows how to attract his teams attention and energy to the problems and outcomes that matter. I will bring forward what I’ve learned from him and look forward to the opportunity for us to collaborate again.

Felipe and I worked together on a high stakes project in a large client. Felipe joined when the discovery groundwork was done but the level of ambiguity still challenged us, as our design sprints took longer than expected. Felipe ramp up super quickly in the project, organised our Figma workspace and helped make the design sprints feel so much simpler. As a product manager, there were less pressure on me from stakeholders, velocity recovered and team morale went up. Working with Felipe was an extremely positive experience, which I recommend for any product team.

I hired Felipe last year and It's been a pleasure to work with him at Pivotal Labs and see him developing his skills over that time. Since joining the team, Felipe has worked in various challenging engagements including product delivery and client enablement. Felipe always provided support to the team by jumping in on a few projects and offer design help to engineers and PM colleagues. He was also actively involved in hiring team members which was a great support for me personally. I would definitely recommend Felipe as he could be a great asset for a design and cross-functional team.

From personal experience I have found Felipe to be a valuable colleague who I would consider an expert in the field of UI/IX. He inspires people to be creative and considerate of the user experience when formulating solutions, he is always constructive in conversations and very professional when situations demand it. I would definetely recommend him for whatever role he pursues.

Felipe is a phenomenally talented and knowledgeable designer who passed on so many points of insight and wisdom during our time together. His designs are sharp and clean and he has a great mind for problem-solving, but I think what he’s truly great at is soft skill building and developing a team with meticulous attention to detail and structure. I’m still using tricks he taught me around customer interviews and the definition process. Felipe is also fantastic about radical candor, he’s very open and honest and unafraid to tell you when you’re going down the wrong path, which is an extraordinarily important resource to have. He was a wonderful presence on our team and I recommend him highly.

Felipe is a professional reference in our community. Extremely engaged produces content, shares knowledge and teaches people to develop their skills. I have a deep admiration for your talent and work did.

Having Felipe on my team was a huge help in starting our evolution toward adopting UX and Lean product processes. I credit him with delivering our first user research-led improvements to our product and leading our first multi-disciplinary team discovery efforts. He is a capable and thoughtful design leader, and I valued his perspective and input throughout his time with us at OpenSC.

Felipe is extremely user-focused in his designs. He is thoughtful about each detail and able to explain his design decisions. He is a supportive co-worker who takes the time to connect with people and work through what the team needs. I'm grateful to have had the chance to work closely with him and hope to get another opportunity to do so!

I had a chance to cooperate with Felipe on the most significant project at U+. From the beginning, I saw he is a very experienced designer. The communication, teamwork, skills in areas of UX and UI are at a really high level. I very much appreciate his reliability, professionalism and high-quality work. He can take responsibility for tasks, actions and is very detailed-oriented. One thing, I admire most is his honesty and friendly approach to the team members but also a client.

From my perspective, he helped U+ a lot in the areas of design processes and approach of UX (personas, user journeys etc.) when he inaugurated all of this on our project. Later on, this started to be U+ standard. What stands apart Felipe from other UX designers is his strong business acumen. When he designs a product he considers every possible impact on business. Thank you for your great work on the project. It was a pleasure to have you on the team. I hope, we'll cooperate again sometime in the future.

Felipe was instrumental in helping us to develop our design practice at Def Method (an agile software development consultancy). He helped us to hire great talent and set a high bar for what a quality and effective product design looks like. In managing Felipe, I particularly appreciated his candor and ability to identify and solve for important opportunities in our business. He is also highly receptive to feedback and brings the highest degree of humility and curiosity to his work. He is a delight to work with and our clients were extremely happy with his design work and overall impact in their organization.

I've worked with Felipe at VMware Pivotal labs for almost a year. Felipe was a great designer, he knows what's needed and when. He is always able to lead design exercises in high professionalism. I had the pleasure to work with him on one of the projects, and it was a challenging one, but Felipe was able to successfully deliver what is needed by utilising his skills and best design practices. Based on my experience, Felipe was great in user research, brain storming sessions and building UIs using different tools. In addition to his skills in his field, Felipe is really friendly and openminded. I would really like to work with him in the future.