Gil Alvaro

- Designed and delivered high-quality, user-centric products for public sector clients such as ESA, MoD, and Home Office within Agile environments. - Led workshops and user research to define optimal UI/UX solutions, creating 35+ high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes. - Created comprehensive design systems including Bootstrap & GOV.UK with light and dark themes, enhancing brand consistency across 5 platforms. - Optimized designs for responsiveness, accessibility, and contrast ratios, meeting WCAG standards, boosting user satisfaction scores by 36%. - Reviewed candidate portfolios and expanded recruitment accuracy by 30% through detailed feedback on CVs and interviews. - Conducted usability testing with 10+ users, increasing user satisfaction scores by 36%. - Trained and mentored junior designers, enhancing team skills and overall design quality.

- Developed responsive front-end interfaces using HTML5, SCSS (BEM), jQuery, and later ReactJS with Material Ul, Styled Components, and JSS. - Enhanced page load speed by 20% by conducting Lighthouse audits and managing CSS specificity. - Improved design-developer collaboration, resulting in a 30% efficiency boost, by implementing Storybook and Zeplin. - As Lead Product Designer, maintained brand consistency across Ul, marketing, and internal assets; mentored design team members. - Guided UX activities including heuristic analysis, contextual inquiries, persona development, user journeys, wireframing, prototyping, and A/B testing. - Established and sustained an Atomic Design-based style guide for consistent and scalable design delivery. - Preserved brand consistency across UI, marketing, and internal assets for 5+ projects by mentoring the design team at Connex One.

Interactive Media Design provides training on interactive media, such as interactive games and narratives, and social and critical technological aspects at the University of Madeira, in close collaboration with the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI).