About
I'm a Product Designer (UX/UI) with over five years of experience building user-centered digital products, and a background in fine arts that shapes how I approach visual and interaction design.
Before design, I worked as a systems developer for a library-management platform. That background allows me to hand off cleanly to engineers and build parts of the solutions myself — like this website for example.
This portfolio is an example of a product I developed with no page builder or framework involved. I've been exploring AI-assisted coding tools to give myself more autonomy in bringing my own designs to life, end to end.
I'm currently based in Antwerp, Belgium, and recently completed a second bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (Painting) alongside freelance design projects. I'm open to full-time or part-time opportunities, remote or local.
Experience
Product Design
Worked with Plots' design team to build a cohesive, scalable design system from the ground up — reusable Figma components, refined flows, and visual guidelines for long-term consistency.
View Plots project →
Redesigned Omnitrack's website with a lighter, more intuitive interface, and helped manage the technology team through implementation — reviewing interactive Figma prototypes and tracking development in Trello. 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
View Enkontra.com project →
Technical roots
Supported and helped develop the mobile version of Pergamum, a library-management system used in over 400 institutions and roughly 8,000 libraries in Brazil.
PHP, AJAX, and SQL/Oracle development; JavaScript and jQuery for front-end interactivity.
Education & certifications
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting — Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Technology in Graphic Design — Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR)
Computer Technician — TECPUC, highschool integrated to IT technical course
Toolkit
Prototyping
Graphics & motion
Research & testing
Websites & marketing
Get in touch
I'm always happy to talk about design, product, or new opportunities — reach out on LinkedIn or at giovana.tows@gmail.com