matt teixeira ux ui product portfolio

Hello! It’s great having you here 👋 I’m Matt.


💻  I'm passionate about all things product development.

If you're after a Product Designer that:
· Leads efforts towards uncovering user problems through user reserach, data analysis, workshops, and other user-focused feedback ways of gathering insights
· Utilises acquired insights to break down problems and inform product decisions that align to business goals
· Champions the user and UX across the organisation
· Is able to take business stakeholders on the journey of why a certain approach was taken and arguing the 'whys' to their designs
· Has frontend language (HTML/CSS/Javascript) knowledge and understands how APIs work in order to collaborate with engineers and dive deep into implementation aspects of solutions
· Posses both great visual design skills that derive from managing the company's design system

Let’s talk! Contact me and let’s chat about what we can achieve together.

Principles I Live and Work By

These are important principles live by. They apply to both my work and outside the office environment.

Passion and Hard Work > Talent

In the long run, enjoying your work will always be more valuable than being skilled at it (and not enjoying it). Being passionate about something allows you to put in the time into your work without feeling burnt out and bitter towards it, and allows you to create more meaningful work.

You Can Do More Than This

It is a strong belief of mine that, for most activities we go through, we can always do better than we currently are. Maybe for being the first time (or second, or third) performing something, or even because our head is in the wrong place, we can always do better by going through another iteration.

Learn, Learn, Learn

Learning (and correctly applying that knowledge) about users is the single, most important thing for a designer. No matter how much we think we know about customers, there’s always more to be learned. It is always Day 1. Having this mindset will help us exponentially more in the long run than “We know everything about customers already”. History has shown that this approach doesn’t lead to anything but complacency and eventually a failed product. Learn, Learn, and Learn again.

Ownership

There is no such thing as “this is not my job”. Anything I am doing at all times, it was my choice to be there and do so. As a worker, I join the company’s mission and am never constrained by a job description or by what I think I can’t handle. Own it.

Simplify

I have been a victim of the following situation (and have seen many in there too): we come up with a complicated solution for a certain problem, and when that is released, we could have done something simpler. When in meetings, we want to impress and come up with amazing solutions, but the user doesn’t care. The user wants their problem solved in the simplest possible way. Simplify.

Obsess About the Customer

Start with the customer and work backwards. Never anything else. As a Product person, my reason for a decision will always be the user and their needs. Obsessing and taking decisions about anything else that does not correlate with solving the user’s problem in the best way possible is a waste of time. Obsess about it.