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Current position:

Industrial Designer
Helder-ID, Almere, the Netherlands

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Some more information about Ricardo

Ricardo is a Product and User Experience Designer from the Netherlands with a masters degree from Umeå Institute of Design in Advanced Product Design (2020).

Before joining the master program at UID he has been working in the industry for a couple of years. Both at a design studio as well as in-house design departments to gain a broad range of experience.

He has developed himself as an “all-round” product designer with experiences from concept developent, product design all the way to design engineering.

His passion lies working on products with a healty focus on the emotion and experience between user and product. Designing a desire by picturing himself in the skin of the end-user and its surroundings. Clean design, original solutions and eye for details are important aspects for him as product designer. 

A user-centered approach is where he feels at home.
Flexible, Organized, Calm and a good listener are words to describe him as a designer, colleague and person. 

In his free time he loves Motorsports, likes to hone current skills and try out new ones to broaden his skill set.

One day a week he is available for freelance product visualization work at his own studio APEX Creatives.

Some of his go-to tools:

Sketching – Adobe CC – Solidworks – Keyshot – Workshop

Experiences


Industrial Designer (Current)
Helder-ID, the Netherlands

Sep. 2021 – Currently

Industrial Designer (Remote)
Design Partners, Ireland

Feb. 2021 – Aug. 2021

Freelance Product Designer (Current)
APEX Creatives, Founder

Dec. 2020 – Currently

Industrial designer
Pan Oston, the Netherlands

2016 – 2017 

Design Engineer
Trelleborg, the Netherlands

2016 

Product designer
Scope design & strategy, the Netherlands

2013-2016 

Industrial designer – MFA thesis co-op
Cisco, Oslo Norway

2020 

Industrial designer
Whipsaw Inc., San Francisco USA

2018 – 2019

Industrial designer – BA thesis co-op
Scope Design & Strategy.

2013

Product designer
Progress Europe – Automotive Innovations

2011 

MFA – Advanced Product Design
Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden

2017 – 2020 

BA – Industrial Product Design (B.Eng)
Chr.Hogeschool Windesheim

2008-2013

BA – Industrial Design
FH-Joanneum, Graz, Austria

2011 – Exchange semester

BA – Build Environment and Architecture
Chr.Hogeschool Windesheim

2007 – 2008 (Stopped)

2nd.Vo.E – ICT – Office automation (MBO4)
Deltion College

2003 – 2007


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