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001 · Independent designer · Lisbon / Remote
Designer of quiet, useful software.
Studio · 2018 → ongoing
Studio · 2018 → ongoing
A small selection. Each one a four-to-nine-month engagement, working directly with the founder and the engineering lead. I don't ship deliverables — I ship working interfaces.
I've been a designer-of-one inside a Series B, a designer-of-fifty inside a public company, and a designer-of-one again. The last one is the one that stuck.
I work with three or four founders a year on the design problems that don't fit neatly into a brief — the ones where identity, interface, and the company itself have to be untangled together.
That usually starts with a week of conversations and ends with a system in production: a brand that holds up, a product surface that pays it off, and a handful of words the team can actually agree on.
I'm not interested in unbillable rounds, deck theatre, or work that ends at the artboard. The good engagements feel like collaborations between adults.
Three buckets. Most engagements touch all three, in roughly this order. I bring trusted collaborators in for code, motion, and photography when the work calls for it.
A small selection of the kindest sentences anyone has ever sent me, from founders and operators who hired me twice.
“Albert is the rarest thing — a designer who can hold the entire company in his head and not show off about it. By month three we couldn't remember what the product looked like before.”
“We hired Albert to design a marketing site and ended up rewriting our entire positioning. That's how this kind of work should feel — you hand over more than you intended to.”
“Six weeks in and the engineering team was quoting the design principles back to me. That has never happened to us with an outside designer.”
“Calm, direct, and very, very fast. Albert pushed back on more decisions than anyone we'd worked with — most of those pushbacks were right.”
If you're a founder with a real problem and a real budget, I'd love to hear about it. The first conversation is twenty minutes and costs nothing.
albert@albertmori.studio
