About
I'm a Product Designer (UX/UI) with 5+ years of experience building user-centered digital solutions.
Before design, I worked as a systems developer on a library-management platform, which lets me collaborate closely with engineers and build parts of the products myself.
Lately I've been exploring AI-assisted coding tools to bring my own designs to life end-to-end — like this website.
I hold a degree in Graphic Design, and more recently completed a second bachelor's degree in painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts — which has sharpened my eye for detail, creativity, and the human touch in my work.
I'm based in Antwerp, Belgium, open to full-time or part-time roles, remote or local.
Let's create something amazing together!
Experience
Product design
Build and applied a cohesive, scalable design system with reusable Figma components and visual guidelines for long-term consistency.
View Plots project →
Redesigned Omnitrack's website and guided the technology team through implementation. Worked on-site in the UK and Italy before continuing remotely.
View Omnitrack project →
Joined a personal-safety startup at conception and built its interface and design system from scratch. Worked closely with engineers day to day — writing tickets in Jira, picking up agile practices — and grew the app to around 4K weekly active users through iterative user research.
View Civi project →Graphic design
Interface, branding, pitch decks, website, videos, marketing and social media content.
View Civi brand and communication projects →
Redesigned the printed product catalogue — technical drawings, photography, and visual identity.
View Omnitrack catalogue project →
Visual identity, motion graphics, and hand-coded HTML/CSS webpages and newsletters.
View motion graphics projects →
Monthly realistic portrait illustrations for this Brazilian legal-affairs magazine.
View Bonijuris portrait illustrations →
Graphic and editorial design for several Brazilian magazines.
UX/UI design for web and mobile solutions, usability studies and graphic design.
View Haus project →View Enkontra.com project →
Technical roots
System support and helped develop the mobile version of Pergamum, a library-management system used in over 400 institutions and 8000+ libraries in Brazil.
PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SQL development for basic front-end and back-end interactivity.
Education & certifications
One of the oldest and most recognized art academies in the world. A painting programme rooted in observational studio practice — still life, model, portrait, and landscape — that builds toward an independent visual language and a self-directed pictorial research project by the third year, alongside art history, theory, anatomy and exhibition practice.
Graduated magna cum laude.
Foundations of UX design
Start the UX design process
Build wireframes
Low-fidelity prototypes
A broad graphic design program spanning print and digital media — packaging, editorial, visual identity, illustration, typography, photography, and web design — with hands-on training in managing a graphic project from pre-press through final production.
Final grade: 9,1 / 10.
Completed the first semester before transferring to UTFPR.
An integrated program covering software development, databases, graphic design, and system modeling, with a focus on game programming, animation, and robotics — building programs and solutions for the internet.
Final grade: 9,13 / 10.
Toolkit
Prototyping
Graphics & motion
Research & testing
Websites & marketing
Get in contact
I'm always happy to meet people interested in design, technology, and art! Reach out on LinkedIn or at giovana.tows@gmail.com