Hi, Im Avin

I’m a Freelance Designer, Artist, and Coder, based in Lisbon.
I focus on digital tools and the design systems that help them scale.
Among many amazing clients, I have been fortunate to work with Samsung, IBM, Mercedes-Benz, HCL, Taboola, and more.

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

Color Tool

Vision | Creation | Maintenance

buttonSoup is an open-source color theme- builder. It streamlines color work from a single color to a basic yet complete color system.

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.

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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 enterprise security decision-makers monitor the health of their data centers while on-the-go.

View on App Store | View on Google Play

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

Photo by Joakim Nådell on Unsplash

More Articles | Read on Medium

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.

Experimental / Front-end coding

Controling GLSL shaders with CSS

This case study contains a walk-through with takeaways on both design and dev aspects, along with live-coded samples for experimentation.
To Experiment with the embedded pen:

1.
Go to Codepen,
2. Fork a version of the pen, so you can edit and save
3. Change the values of CSS vars under ‘MAIN CSS VARS FOR UPDATE:‘ comment (Colors, etc.)
4. Save the pen and Refresh the page to see the results.

Read case study | View project on Github

Visual Art

Light Documentations

Drawings from observation 2014-24, Online exhibition.

Visit Gallery