I was travelling from Pretoria, in South Africa where I live, heading to Maputo in Mozambique, my hometown, when I saw a billboard promoting a car, on the signature they had: An Italian design. I was impressed and, at the same time, a little jealous. I was impressed because I began to wonder what Italy had done to become synonymous with quality so that brands could use the country’s name and do not have to say anything else. I was jealous because it was hard for me to say something similar about my country, as well as about my continent.

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This article is part of a series of interviews with world-class designers. I’ve interviewed junior to senior designers from companies such as IDEO, Dropbox, Visa, Airbnb, Toptal, Shopify and others. “Questions to your younger self” was the format I used because I believe that it’s easier to give advice to my younger self than to someone else.

So, in order to make the life of my interviewees easy, they would just have to give recommendations and advice to their younger selves on what it takes to become a world-class designer and what they should avoid to speed up the process.

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I decided to challenge myself to test my design skills. So I started working on this app idea that I’ve been thinking about for some time now. The app helps to achieve a simple task: check data and airtime usage without having to remember too many USSD codes.

It is a problem that I’ve been dealing with, mainly because telecoms change their codes and add new ones all the time, and each Telecom has its USSD codes for the same offer or service. So as you can imagine, it is too much to memorise.

My main goal is to check…

This article is part of a series of 10 interviews with world-class designers. I’ve interviewed Junior to Senior designers from companies such as IDEO, Dropbox, Visa, Airbnb, Toptal, Shopify and others.

“Questions to your younger self” was the format I used because I believe that it’s easier to give advice to my younger self than to someone else. …

This article is part of a series of 10 interviews with world-class designers. I’ve interviewed Junior to Senior designers from companies such as IDEO, Dropbox, Visa, Airbnb, Toptal, Shopify and others.

“Questions to your younger self” was the format I used because I believe that it’s easier to advise my younger self than to someone else. So, to make the life of my interviewees easy, they would have to give recommendations and advice to their younger selves on what it takes to become a world-class designer and what they should avoid to speed up the process.

Without further ado, meet…

This article is part of a series of 10 interviews with world-class designers. I’ve interviewed Junior to Senior designers from companies such as IDEO, Dropbox, Visa, Airbnb, Toptal, Shopify and others.

“Questions to your younger self” was the format I used because I believe that it’s easier to give advice to my younger self than to someone else. …

This article is part of a series of 10 interviews with world-class designers. I’ve interviewed Junior to Senior designers from companies such as IDEO, Dropbox, Visa, Airbnb, Toptal, Shopify and others.

“Questions to your younger self” was the format I used because I believe that it’s easier to give advice to my younger self than to someone else. …

This article is part of a series of 10 interviews with world-class designers. I’ve interviewed Junior to Senior designers from companies such as IDEO, Dropbox, Visa, Airbnb, Toptal, Shopify and others.

“Questions to your younger self” was the format I used because I believe that it’s easier to give advice to my younger self than to someone else. …