About
Hi! I’m Boris de Melo. Since September 2016, I have worked as a User Interaction Designer for Guru Graphics Limited, a web agency in London, and have experience designing for e-commerce, education and CRM platforms, with an interest in working on transport and energy based projects in the future.
I’m skilled in using Axure, Sketch and InVision for building UI prototypes and have a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript, having worked closely with developers on various web projects.
Why UX Design?
I went into my Product Design Engineering course knowing very well that I wanted my career to be all about creating products that enabled people to make the best use the latest technology to achieve their goals.
However, I hadn’t quite decided which industry I would be getting into. While at uni, a module in Software Engineering introduced me to the world of “UX Design” and that’s how I realised where my love of technology and curiosity about human psychology could blend to come up with interesting new digital products.
Opinions on "Design"
User-Driven Design
Though I have no formal training in human psychology, my curiosity around human behaviour leads me to take a particular interest in user testing new solutions and products. The science of designing tests to work around human biases is always an interesting challenge to deal with.
Minimalistic, but Functional
As a UX Designer, I can adapt to work with any design system as the project requires (and flashy designs can be fun, too), but my personal design direction tends towards minimising design features to let the product draw focus to what really matters in order to achieve the user’s goal.
Fields I'm Interested in
Automotive
I’ve been a life-long car enthusiast. And as a technology fanatic, self driving cars have gotten me really interested in the possibilities this opens up for product design.
Sustainability
I’ll confess that I don’t live as sustainably as is reasonably possible in this day and age, so I’m not riding a high horse while making this point, but since you and I live in “the environment”, it’s worth considering solutions that mitigate damage to it. Green technology is a field I'd be really happy to contribute to.
Artificial Intelligence
In a world where it's getting easier to collect large amounts of data, I think machine learning is going to be a necessary tool in a lot of fields to deal with this data. I plan on exploring this area more in depth to inspire better solutions in the products I design. (For a start, I had taken an optional module at uni where we touched on the theory of training neural nets.)
Professional Details
Work Experience
Sept 2016 to Jan 2019
UX/UI Designer
Guru Graphics Ltd, London
Skills
UI Design and Prototyping
Axure, Sketch, Illustrator, InVision, Principle
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Image Manipulation
Photoshop, Pixelmator
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Video Editing
iMovie, Premiere, After Effects*,
FCP X*
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And more
macOS, iWork suite, iCloud,
Windows, MS Office, One Drive,
Google Drive, Google Docs, Analytics,
Dropbox, JIRA, MS Visual Studio*
NX (CAD)*, Cura*, Magics*
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*Limited experience
Education
Sept 2013 - Jun 2016
Product Design Engineering (BEng)
Loughborough University, UK
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Jun 2013
A Levels (GCE)
The Westminster School, Dubai
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Jun 2011
GCSE (International)
The Westminster School, Dubai
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Right to work in the UK: EU National, 5+ years in the UK.
Photography & Other Interests
In a year 7 science class we had a lesson about how cameras work. Curious me went home, picked up the family camera and switched it into manual mode. As a physics geek, my fascination with how the aperture, shutter speed and lenses played with the light to produce different results, kept me hooked from that point on.