Hi, My name is Ricardo. Nice to meet you!
Or if you want to learn more, check out his resumé and related information down below.
Current position:
Industrial Designer
Helder-ID, Almere, the Netherlands
Resumé PDF upon request
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