Brand Designer, Creative, and all-around Geek 🤓 I'm Bruno but most friends call me Figas. TL;DR: Currently working as Designer in Chief at OutSystems, growing communities as a Figma Community Advocate, and fighting for #OpenDesign with Design is for Everyone. I started my career freelancing for cultural projects and small businesses, but even before that, I was introduced to design through computerized textile design in my family's business. Then for 6 years I grew and developed cultural projects around music, co-directing an online magazine called Culturarte and eventually organizing music shows through Sofar Sounds. Since 2016 I've been working at OutSystems, a visual coding platform company, helping the company brand and design practices to grow and scale. I am now leading a team of creatives and trying to grow a truly global design organization. On the side I've been helping grow the Figma Community, handling the Portuguese chapter, and helping with the moderation of both the slack and forum channels. My most recent side-project is called Design is for Everyone, DifE for short. In this project, I'm going to fight for a more democratized and open practice of our profession, building several assets from podcasts, interviews, and videos, to free design courses and even an attempt at a worldwide census of the state of Design as a profession. All of this in the name of #opendesign. Also about me: Marvel/Star Wars geek, lover of indie, alt, and soul music and a truly annoying know it all.