Lead Product Designer & Design Engineer

TURNING MESSY IDEAS INTO SHIPPED PRODUCTS

I turn ambiguous problems into usable systems, MVPs, automations, and shipped product experiences.

From concept to code to customer: Digital platforms, AI tools, and
0-to-1 products.

AI-assisted builds with:
Codex · Claude Code · Lovable · React · Next.js · Supabase · Vercel

See What I've Built

Featured Products

A showcase of impactful design solutions across various industries and technologies

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Artori - Your AI Study Companion

Solving the 200-year-old problem of isolated exam preparation using AI for research and product building.
Product BuilderEdTechIAInnovation
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Bua na Cainte - Design System & Platform Modernization

Led Flash-to-HTML5 migration for Ireland's leading educational platform, increasing monthly game delivery from 30 to 100 while reducing rework by 70%.
Product DesignLeadershipProcess OptmizationCI/CDTeamwork
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Imvizar: Rebranding an AR Startup from Survival to Growth

Rebranding an AR startup from survival to scale—delivering a complete design system, new brand identity, and mobile redesign in 4 months that helped secure partnerships and funding.
Brand IdentityAR/XR DesignDesign SystemsStartup Growth
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Virtual Showroom: Revolutionizing Real Estate Sales Through VR

Bringing architecture and gaming together to revolutionise real estate sales in Brazil.
Product BuilderVirtual RealityTeamworkLeadershipInnovation

Professional Experience

From design leadership to shipping AI-powered products.

  • Led Flash-to-HTML5 migration, increasing monthly delivery from 30 to 100 products while cutting developer hours by 50% through process optimisation
  • Redesigned the main learning platform using a component-based design system, expanding usable screen space by 11% and improving focus and engagement for 50,000+ students
  • Built and scaled a unified design system adopted across 3,500+ products, enabling faster handoffs and consistent user experience
  • Developed Python and Shell automation scripts to eliminate repetitive tasks, enabling async collaboration and accelerating team productivity
  • Translated stakeholder needs into clear product and technical direction, and made engineering constraints understandable to non-technical teams while shipping workflows, prototypes, and automation tools
  • Built AI-assisted mobile, web, and internal products from 0 to 1, taking them through user tests, live pilots, team adoption, and Android launch prep
  • Designed and deployed MVPs with Codex, Claude Code, Lovable, React/Next.js, React Native, Vercel, Supabase, and Neon
  • Created Edco/Bua automation tools that cut resource-production tasks by 10x+, turning PDF, thumbnail, title, and SVG workflows from hours into seconds
  • Led end-to-end redesign of mobile and web platform plus complete visual identity overhaul, directly contributing to the company securing new partnerships and investment
  • Built foundational design system still scaling across the product today
  • Founded and led VR startup building architectural visualisation and tourism platforms in Unity 3D and Unreal Engine, securing incubation at InovAtiva Brasil
  • Pivoted from B2C to B2B based on user research, resulting in partnerships with real estate developers and tourism boards

Core Expertise

The intersection of design, AI, and rapid execution.

Product & UX Design

  • Product Discovery & UX Strategy
  • Design Systems at Scale
  • End-to-End Product Design
  • Stakeholder-to-Developer Translation
  • Usability Testing & Research
  • Shipped Product Experiences

AI-Assisted Prototyping

  • Codex, Claude Code, Lovable
  • Cursor & AI Coding Workflows
  • React, Next.js & Vercel
  • Supabase & Neon
  • LLM Integration & Prompting
  • 0-to-1 MVPs in Weeks

Automation & Delivery

  • Python & Shell Automation
  • Workflow Optimization
  • Internal Tools & Dashboards
  • HTML, CSS & JavaScript
  • Git & Deployment Workflows
  • Cross-Functional Delivery

About Me

Smart Work Over Hard Work - Always Building Better

Bruno Pinheiro

Hi, my name is Bruno Pinheiro and I'm a Lead Product Designer and Design Engineer working across UX, automation, and AI-assisted prototyping.

I like turning ambiguous problems into working products. My work sits between product strategy, design, and technical execution: understanding what needs to change, shaping the experience, translating between stakeholders and developers, and building the prototypes or workflows that move things forward.

My tech journey started in the late '90s with my first course: "How to Assemble and Maintain a Computer." But honestly, my earliest memory is way before that: pulling motors from toy cars to build my own fans and boats. That curiosity never left.

For years, I designed products and handed them off. With AI-assisted tools like Codex, Claude Code, Lovable, and Cursor, I can now move faster from concept to prototype, from prototype to test, and from test to shipped product.

Today, I lead product design for large-scale educational platforms while building AI-assisted products, internal tools, and automations from 0 to 1.

Outside of work: running, photography, cooking, and guitar.

Let's Build Something

Got an idea that needs to ship fast? Let's talk about turning it into reality.

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