Hi, Im Avin

a Designer and maker, based in Lisbon.
I help clients shape professional tools and lay the design systems that help them scale.

Among other clients, I have been fortunate to work with:

Testimonials

  • "Avin developed our Product Design System, which helped us revamp our products and have a better alignment across the offering... He always does things professionally, creatively, and with enthusiasm."

    Itay Levin, Design lead at HCL AppScan

  • "...I can recommend Avin for any type of digital design project, especially ones that are difficult to crack and require good conceptual understanding and original, out of the box thinking."

    Nitzan Volman, Head of Taboola Labs at Taboola

  • “I have referred other colleagues of mine to Avin, and intend to keep working with him in the future.”

    Guy Atzmon, VP Creative, SundaySky

Work

Themo color theme on iPad

Color Tool

Themo.me

Creation | Maintenance | Design | Development

Themo is an open-source color theme- builder. It streamlines color work from a single color to optional palettes and basic color systems.

AppScan on Cloud and AppScan Standard

Design System

Design System Owner | UI Lead

HCL AppScan Design System provides lean and cross-platform infrastructure. It supports consistency across complex SaaS and Desktop tools, as well as various IDE plugins.

Zerto mobile app on iPhone

Mobile Design System

Components Library | Product Design

Zerto Mobile guidelines and components enabled the company to extend its robust desktop UI into a mobile environment, letting e decision makers monitor the health of their data centers while on-the-go. (System UX by 5ive)

AppSec tool

Static Scan Retrospective

UX | Product design | Data Visualization

This unique tool was developed by a large client for internal use by their security team.
It provided a clear image of how vulnerability issues are being created and prioritized during a static scan (SAST) process and created a common narrative around how to configure scans to be more efficient.

Essays

design systems are also about the products that don’t adopt them

Photo by Joakim Nådell on Unsplash

essays

Set nested 3D assets to respond to UI updates

Beyond an agent of consistency, a design system is also a facilitator of change

The underlying design split we often overlook

Content patterns can take us a long way.