About me

My name is Gabriel Rosa, I am Brazilian, and I have worked as a product designer since 2011. Honestly, I think I have been a designer for much longer than that. I took my first drawing class when I was around ten years old, and I got lucky with where I landed: it was a drawing and animation studio that was well known at the time, run by the people behind Mundo Canibal. That is where I learned the basics of animation, in Adobe’s old software, Flash. That was my foundation.

What got me my first internship, in São Paulo, was exactly that: knowing how to animate in Flash. I joined a startup called Melt DSP that needed animated banners for the clients coming in, and in my very first internship I ended up making banners for huge companies. Chilli Beans, NET, and agencies like Africa and DM9DDB, which brought their own clients along. Very early on, I had to understand what a professional delivery actually means.

After that I went through every kind of company: big ones, small ones, consultancies, and every type of team you can imagine, with people who were easy to work with and people who were not. In all of them, the positive feedback I kept getting was about my communication.

That did not come only from work. In my free time I did theater and took improv classes with some of the best people I could have learned from. I even made it to the finals of a Comedy Central stand-up reality show here in Brazil, and performed a few amateur stand-up shows along the way. It was a really good stretch of my life.

I almost forgot: somewhere in there I also learned frontend development. When I started, there were no good prototyping tools, so a lot of designers from my generation learned to code as the only way to bring their work into the real world. Now, with AI showing up, I have been able to build even better things, like Mock Studio, a web app I made for building 3D mockups for free, positioned exactly the way I want them.

Feel free to get in touch.