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Hi, I’m Daniel Palhares, a Senior UX/UI Designer with 5+ years of experience turning mobile product requirements into intuitive interfaces. I’ve led end-to-end design for Revolut’s Portuguese fintech features and Vodafone’s digital products across Qatar, Ireland, and Portugal, delivering wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and scalable AI-driven experiences that reached thousands of users. I thrive on collaboration with stakeholders and I work well in remote settings, delivering polished design across all five project phases. I’m comfortable leveraging AI tools like Figma Make, ChatGPT, and Claude to speed up delivery while maintaining accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2). I bring strong design systems, information architecture, and a user-centered approach to every project, always aiming to balance brand guidelines with practical usability.…Hi, I’m Daniel Palhares, a Senior UX/UI Designer with 5+ years of experience turning mobile product requirements into intuitive interfaces. I’ve led end-to-end design for Revolut’s Portuguese fintech features and Vodafone’s digital products across Qatar, Ireland, and Portugal, delivering wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and scalable AI-driven experiences that reached thousands of users. I thrive on collaboration with stakeholders and I work well in remote settings, delivering polished design across all five project phases. I’m comfortable leveraging AI tools like Figma Make, ChatGPT, and Claude to speed up delivery while maintaining accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2). I bring strong design systems, information architecture, and a user-centered approach to every project, always aiming to balance brand guidelines with practical usability.

Daniel Palhares

UX Designer, UI Designer, Product Designer, +2

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Hi, I’m Daniel Palhares, a Senior UX/UI Designer with 5+ years of experience turning mobile product requirements into intuitive interfaces. I’ve led end-to-end design for Revolut’s Portuguese fintech features and Vodafone’s digital products across Qatar, Ireland, and Portugal, delivering wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and scalable AI-driven experiences that reached thousands of users. I thrive on collaboration with stakeholders and I work well in remote settings, delivering polished design across all five project phases. I’m comfortable leveraging AI tools like Figma Make, ChatGPT, and Claude to speed up delivery while maintaining accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2). I bring strong design systems, information architecture, and a user-centered approach to every project, always aiming to balance brand guidelines with practical usability.…Hi, I’m Daniel Palhares, a Senior UX/UI Designer with 5+ years of experience turning mobile product requirements into intuitive interfaces. I’ve led end-to-end design for Revolut’s Portuguese fintech features and Vodafone’s digital products across Qatar, Ireland, and Portugal, delivering wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and scalable AI-driven experiences that reached thousands of users. I thrive on collaboration with stakeholders and I work well in remote settings, delivering polished design across all five project phases. I’m comfortable leveraging AI tools like Figma Make, ChatGPT, and Claude to speed up delivery while maintaining accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2). I bring strong design systems, information architecture, and a user-centered approach to every project, always aiming to balance brand guidelines with practical usability.

Available to hire

Hi, I’m Daniel Palhares, a Senior UX/UI Designer with 5+ years of experience turning mobile product requirements into intuitive interfaces. I’ve led end-to-end design for Revolut’s Portuguese fintech features and Vodafone’s digital products across Qatar, Ireland, and Portugal, delivering wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and scalable AI-driven experiences that reached thousands of users. I thrive on collaboration with stakeholders and I work well in remote settings, delivering polished design across all five project phases.

I’m comfortable leveraging AI tools like Figma Make, ChatGPT, and Claude to speed up delivery while maintaining accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2). I bring strong design systems, information architecture, and a user-centered approach to every project, always aiming to balance brand guidelines with practical usability.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Language

Portuguese

Fluent

English

Fluent

Spanish; Castilian

Intermediate

Work Experience

Freelance Product Designer at Revolut Portugal

January 1, 2026 - Present

Owned end-to-end mobile interface design for a fintech AI assistant inside Revolut's Portuguese app, delivering wireframes through high-fidelity Figma prototypes as the sole designer across all five project phases. Grounded the mobile flow in AI-simulated research with five interviewees, producing three personas and two interview scripts that shaped key interaction decisions. Validated a working Figma Make prototype across four user scenarios, enabling client-facing usability testing aligned with accessibility and brand guidelines. Scaled the assistant from pilot to 5,000 beta users, lifting unresolved-crisis resolution to 41 percent and proactive billing actions to 43 percent while cutting the AI reversal rate from 12.8 to 8.4 percent.

Senior UX/UI Designer at Celfocus

January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2026

Redesigned mobile user flows from wireframe to high-fidelity prototype for Vodafone's digital products across Qatar, Portugal and Ireland, cutting friction for end users in each market. Led user research, usability testing and journey mapping that grounded interface decisions in validated behavioural insight. Applied neurodesign and accessibility principles to interface decisions while integrating AI tools to speed up prototyping without sacrificing quality. Established detail-driven DesignOps documentation standards that kept design and development aligned across distributed teams.

Graphic Designer at Agency Sem Tento & Agency Blue Bolt

January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021

Built brand identities and campaign assets for major clients including Burger King, Rock in Rio, Zeedog and MUSA, balancing creative direction with client needs under tight deadlines. Delivered minimalist, Gestalt-grounded brand identities and cross-format campaign materials for a varied client base.