tuca barcelos (they/them)

ux/ui - web designer

since 2021

eats too much pasta

Hey there!

I’m Tuca, nice to meet you!

I’m a UX/UI Designer from Brazil and I’ve been traveling down this road since 2021, but before that, I’d already had been working as a Graphic Designer since 2019.

My life has always revolved around creative work. Be that as a child drawing on every possible surface I could find, or as teenager balancing three high school bands at once, and even as a teacher during college, coming up with compeling ways of making kids be interested in history and grammar.

Although I loved my time as a teacher and historian, creative work always pulled me back in, so in 2019 I started working again as a freelance graphic designer while finishing college, and during the COVID lockdown, I dedicated myself to learn the ins and outs of UX/UI Design and Front-End languages such as HTML and CSS.

Today I dedicate myself fully to design work, putting all the knowledge and skills I’ve honed through years of practice across multiple disciplines, to become a designer who creates not only data driven interfaces, but empathetic driven experiences.

Status

EXP:

4.120

HP:

2300/2300

Attack Points:

1890

Defence Points:

2640

Special Skills:

Figma

Prototyping

HTML

CSS

Design Systems

Responsive Design

Photoshop

Illustrator

Communication:

English

Portuguese

Spanish

Experiences

UENI

2024/present

Web Designer/UI Designer

Web designer for a company that develops websites for start-ups and other small business across the U.S. and the U.K.

Lumière

2023/2024

UX/UI Designer/Developer

Web designer for a company that develops websites for start-ups and other small business across the U.S. and the U.K.

Bikcraft

2022

Web Designer/Developer

Website done in UI Design and programming classes. Design made using Figma, and coded with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.

Talkactive

2020/2023

Designer/Social Media

Designer responsable for the visual indentity of the brand, social media general presence, and design of the Webpage and Mobile app.

Freelance

2019/2024

Design, Video Editing, Illustration

Projects made for several different people, from a range of professional greeting cards, personal illustrations, videos and social media projects, websites, apps, and also personal projects.

UDESC

2016/2022

College Internships

College internships in several areas, dealing with historial archives, video editing, teaching, and acting as translator and interpreter for college events and papers.

“A dedicated, creative, and highly proactive professional who always strives to deliver the best!

Without a doubt, they produce impeccable work and deserves all the recognition. Their commitment to design ensures that the results are always innovative. Their path in this field will surely be brilliant, and they will help many people through design!”

Ariane Vidal, former Design School colleague

Education

ORIGAMID - HTML and CSS

2020

ORIGAMID - UX/UI Design

2020

UDESC - Licentiate in History

2016-2022

SATC - Graphic Design

2014-2016