About

I go wherever the problem is. If it's in the research, I research. If it's on the screen, I draw. If it's in the architecture of the product's language, that's where I stay.

That isn't a lack of focus, it's what each job asked for. In one project the problem was vocabulary: the feature existed in Europe and made no sense in Brazil. In another it was media cost disguised as a layout choice. In another it was a commercial promise: one home screen that could take any of twelve brand palettes, in light and dark. None of the three was solved by a pretty screen alone, and none by code alone.

I started in Computer Engineering at Unicamp and spent almost two years at the Apple Developer Academy, where the job title was UX Designer and iOS Developer, both on the same line. I never unlearned that. I still draw the screen and write its color and spacing in the code.

I joined Diletta Solutions, a software house in Campinas, Brazil, in November 2021 as a junior designer. I became mid-level in 2023 and senior in 2025. Before that came the Apple Developer Academy, my first contact with product design, in February 2021. At Diletta I design fintech products end to end for clients including N26, Up Brasil, Banco Bold, Diletta Pay, CPF Seguro and Directo, from research and problem definition through UI and handover to engineering.

That splits in two. One half is research and screens. The other is the design system: the names color, spacing and components carry inside the code, and the check that measures whether Figma and the code still agree. I prefer the second. That's where the work stops depending on me.

In the design system I write the rule before the component, and an AI agent helps me check whether Figma and the code still match it. It measures and points out the gap. I decide what goes in, together with the teams that use the system. My Computer Engineering degree from Unicamp helps here: I know what a program can check and what only a person can see.

Outside work I co-founded Olá Mundo!, a nonprofit that teaches computer science in Brazilian public schools.

Contact

I'm looking at senior, specialist and design systems roles in product design, in Brazil or abroad. Remote or hybrid. Portuguese native, English professional, Spanish intermediate.

If you're hiring and want to see something that isn't on this site, ask. I'll send it.

hunter.soares.c@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/soareshunter
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