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Alexandre JúniorUI/UX Designer · Web Design

Software Engineering · University of Brasília

From requirements to interface.

Clear, useful digital products, grounded in Software Engineering.

Brasília, Brazil · Available for remote work (Brazil and abroad) or hybrid/on‑site in Brasília

Alexandre Júnior leaning on a railing by a canal, with gondolas in the background, looking toward the horizon

Projects

Case 1 / 3 Jan 2026 1.5 months Sole designer

Sankofa Negócios Negros

Marketplace for Black entrepreneurs

  • Real client
  • Live product
  • Expofavela 2026 award
Home page of the Sankofa Negócios Negros marketplace on a tablet: black hero section and category cards for Food, Art, Fashion and Technology

01Problem

Sankofa is a collective that supports the Black movement in Brazil. It already had a landing page and a visual identity. The goal was to create a marketplace that would work as a digital meeting point between Black entrepreneurs and consumers across Brazil.

02What I did

I was the only designer on the project (UX/UI and prototyping), working with a team of developers and a PO.

I started with an immersion with the client to learn Sankofa’s story and its existing visual identity. From there, I created a design system aligned with the brand and led the prototyping, with weekly validation meetings with the client to balance what they wanted with what was feasible, before the development team started coding.

I designed the home page structure (the layout of the business cards and the carousels), the business listing, the profile page for each business, and the sign-up, login and user profile flows. In practice, the architecture and foundation of almost the entire product.

03Outcome

  • The platform was built from my prototype and is still live today. The current site has been evolved by another team, but it keeps the structure and architecture I designed.
  • It is used by Black entrepreneurs across Brazil, who sign up to promote their businesses, and it has become a meeting point for the community.
  • The platform, built from my prototype, won the Expofavela Innovation Brasília 2026 award, recognized as a benchmark for high economic, social and racial impact.
Profile page of Central Barbearia on Sankofa, with logo, description, contact buttons, address, opening hours and map
Business profile: who they are, where they are and how to get in touch.
Business listing for the Food & Artisanal Cuisine category, with search, filter and a card for each business
Business listing by category, with search and filters.
Original Sankofa Negócios Negros landing page on a black background, with the headline in Portuguese: "Are all doors open to us? No?! Then we build our own."
Before: the original Sankofa landing page, the starting point for the marketplace.

Challenge

The biggest challenge was balancing the client’s taste with good design practices. The client wanted the entire site on a black background. I proposed a middle ground: a black hero section, a golden gradient transition and content sections (such as the business listing) on a white background, ensuring reading comfort without giving up the look the client wanted.

ToolsFigma

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Case 2 / 3 Mid-2025 Sole author

Website for a Psychologist

Thatiane Canguçu · from visual identity to launch

  • Real client
  • Live site
Website of psychologist Thatiane Canguçu on a laptop, showing the introduction section with photo, text and the Book button

01Problem

Thatiane, a psychologist, was starting to invest in social media and had no website. She relied on word of mouth to get new patients and wanted a single place with all the relevant information about her. The project came out of a conversation between the two of us.

02What I did

I was the sole author, end to end: negotiation, requirements, visual identity, design, code and launch.

I gathered what she wanted to highlight: her career as a psychologist, her professional qualities, the people she works with and how she works. Then I structured the site’s content from that.

03Outcome

  • The site is still live today, and the client renewed the domain on her own.
  • The link is in her Instagram bio, as her main contact channel.
  • An ongoing relationship: she still comes to me for updates.
Services section of the site, with the In person, Online, Private care and Affordable packages options, and the office address with a map
Services section: the types of sessions offered and the office location.

Visual identity

She didn’t have a logo, so I created one. She brought a shade of green as her preferred color, and I developed variations of green for her to choose from. I researched the typography and we chose it together. Everything was designed for the world of psychology, with calm, soft and welcoming colors and typefaces.

Validation and development

First I delivered the design as a PDF, as a prototype for validation. Once it was approved, I coded the site in HTML and CSS and published it.

Features

Direct WhatsApp contact buttons, office location, professional information, photo and contact form.

Challenge

Making the site responsive, with lots of cards (grid, flexbox, borders). At the time I was just starting out and did everything by hand, without AI, testing in Chrome’s device mode. That’s where I built the HTML and CSS foundation I still carry today.

ToolsFigma · HTML · CSS

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Case 3 / 3 Aug 2026 1 week Sole author

Daston Dashboard

Corporate dashboard for a fictional company

  • Study
  • Concept project
Announcements screen of the Daston Dashboard on a laptop

01Problem

A corporate dashboard for a fictional company, designed to help employees stay informed about announcements and decisions, track annual goals tied to bonuses, take part in HR surveys and votes, and monitor the team’s technical performance.

02What I did

I was the sole author. I worked in stages, with a review before moving on:

  1. Benchmarking (Jira, Monday.com and Leapsome)
  2. User flow
  3. Wireframes
  4. Style guide and design system, with light and dark modes
  5. High-fidelity screens, desktop and responsive, following Bootstrap’s grid and spacing

03Outcome

  • Project completed in about a week, within the deadline I set for myself.
  • I delivered the design system with light and dark modes and the high-fidelity screens, desktop and responsive.
Announcements screen in light mode, with the list of notices by department, subject and date, and the filter button
Announcements: notices from every department gathered in one list, with date and filter.
Goals screen in dark mode, with progress charts for the team’s annual goals
Dark mode, on the Goals screen.
Announcements screen in the mobile version, with notices as cards and navigation in the bottom bar
Responsive version: on mobile, announcements become cards and navigation moves to the bottom bar.

AI in the workflow

Claude with the Figma MCP supported the logo creation, brainstorming the necessary features, the benchmarking, part of the design system and automating the alignment with the Bootstrap grid. The concept and design of the screens, the wireframes and the high-fidelity prototyping were done by me.

Challenge

Delivering quality work within a one-week deadline I set for myself, simulating a professional delivery. The solution was to organize the work in stages, validating each one before moving to the next, with constant review and a responsible workflow.

ToolsFigma · Claude + Figma MCP · Bootstrap grid

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Other projects

About me

I like watching things take shape.

Alexandre Júnior smiling with his arms crossed at night, with city lights in the background

I’m a UI/UX designer focused on web and a Software Engineering student at the University of Brasília (UnB), and that background shapes the way I work: I believe a good interface starts before the visuals, by understanding the problem, organizing the requirements and structuring the project. From there, every conversation and every round of feedback refines the idea until it becomes a clear, useful product.

I’m especially interested in projects with a real impact on people’s lives. I work well autonomously, but I deeply value collaborating with the team and learning from more experienced professionals.

Experience

  1. Oct 2026 — present

    Digital Layout Designer

    Editora FTD

    Converting printed editorial content into responsive HTML for the digital platform, assembling pages from standardized components and the project’s design system, and editing HTML and CSS when needed. Managing weekly deliveries, with version control, quality control (content accuracy, links, responsiveness and visual standards) and item-by-item feedback in review cycles. Asynchronous communication with the design, development and editorial teams via Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.

  2. Sep 2023 — Sep 2024

    IT Intern

    Base Incorporações

    User support, network management and configuration, infrastructure support and Power BI work.

Education and courses

  1. Expected: Dec 2026

    Software Engineering

    University of Brasília (UnB)

  2. Aug 2026

    User Experience: UX and Design Thinking for Business

    Udemy

  3. Mar 2026

    PRO FIGMA WEB: UI Design for websites and web systems with Figma

    Udemy

  4. Nov 2025

    PRO FIGMA: UI Design with Figma from zero to expert

    Udemy

  5. Jun 2024

    UX Design: understanding the field of User Experience

    Alura

Skills

Highlighted: skills I have at an advanced level.

  • Design & UX

    • Figma(advanced level)
    • UI Design(advanced level)
    • Design Systems(advanced level)
    • Design Thinking(advanced level)
    • UX Research
    • Usability
    • Accessibility (WCAG)

  • Requirements & Management

    • Requirements gathering and analysis
    • Scrum
    • Kanban
    • Notion
    • Todoist

  • Front-end

    • HTML(advanced level)
    • CSS(advanced level)
    • JavaScript(advanced level)
    • Git

  • AI

    • Generative AI(advanced level)
    • Claude + Figma MCP(advanced level)

Soft skills

  • Client communication: negotiating scope, understanding what the client wants and presenting prototypes for validation.
  • Openness to feedback: I treat feedback rounds as a core part of the process.
  • Organization and structure: requirements, staged work with reviews, versioned deliveries.
  • Autonomy with collaboration: I manage my own work and seek input from the team.

Let’s talk.

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