Based in Berlin, Germany

Antonio Furtado

Senior Product Designer · Design Systems, Complex Mobile, B2B & AI

01Projects

WS Audiology (2023 to 2026)

One of the world’s largest hearing care groups, serving millions of hearing aid users across 10+ brands in over 100 countries.

Multi-brand design system

Engineering wanted to reuse the old code-only skinning engine. I pushed back and built a proper token-based design system for a new multi-brand app.

Design Systems Design Tokens Multi-brand Theming Component Architecture

AI assistant

Contextual help for device, sound, and troubleshooting questions in hearing aid apps. I led conversation and UX design with ML and product teams, validated across three countries.

Human-AI Interaction Conversational UX LLM Integration Usability Testing

Consent system & GDPR

A compliant, accessible consent architecture built from scratch: four consent types, dependency logic, RTL, and an EAA mandate, under shifting legal requirements.

Interaction Design Accessibility Consent Management GDPR

Bluetooth pairing flow

Bluetooth pairing is the user’s first interaction with the app and the biggest drop-off point. I designed the full decision-tree flow across iOS and Android: discovery, pairing, error recovery.

Interaction Design Error State Design Hardware-Software UX Accessibility

Connexx B2B tool facelift

A visual facelift of Signia’s desktop fitting software under a strict no-workflow-change rule. I ran the UK usability sessions and turned the findings into shipped UI for Connexx 10.0.

Usability Testing UI Design Enterprise UX Medical Devices

CARIAD · Volkswagen Group (2022 to 2023)

Volkswagen Group’s automotive software subsidiary, building the unified software platform and in-car App Store across the Group’s eight vehicle brands.

B2B App-Store Portals

Getting a third-party app onto a car’s screen meant passing three internal B2B portals across VW Group’s eight brands, none properly designed. As sole designer I owned discovery, IA, the stakeholder journeys, and a hi-fi OEM Admin portal.

Enterprise UX Information Architecture Design System Multi-stakeholder Governance

Personal Projects (2020 to 2026)

Side projects built outside company work, where I own design, product decisions, and shipping.

Sudokue.

A Sudoku hint engine that names the technique instead of giving the answer. No ads. Built solo in React and TypeScript with Claude Code and Cursor.

Product Design Frontend Development AI-Assisted Workflows Design Systems
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This portfolio

Designed and built in Cowork with Claude. The brief, the critique, and the decisions were mine; Claude handled the implementation.

Solo Build · Direction AI-Assisted Workflow HTML / CSS Accessibility · WCAG AA

02About

I go after the problems where design has to hold a system together: multi-brand design systems, complex mobile products, B2B tools, and human-AI interaction. The hard calls are structural, and the designer is in the room while scope is still being decided.

A team gets a designer who owns the full stack: token architecture, component libraries, product discovery, interaction design, accessibility to WCAG AA, usability testing, and engineering handoff. I direct AI tools like Claude and Cursor from idea to working prototype in hours, and the decisions stay mine.

Tools
Figma · Figma Variables Token Studio · Storybook React · TypeScript Tailwind CSS Cursor · Claude iOS · Android

03Contact

Looking for a team where design decisions carry weight: complex systems, AI products, and a seat when the hard calls get made.

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