quefreenproduct designer

Based in Sliema, Malta

Quéfreen Almeida

Turning
complex business
constraints
into flawless
digital products.

Bridging 15 years of visual craft
with the reality of front-end execution.

Bio

Over the past 15+ years, my career moved from art direction into product design for complex systems. I rebuilt a biotech investor hub ahead of an FDA filing and cut task completion times by 63%. I collapsed a 71-field legacy medical request into three steps without touching a single line of backend code. The client came back for a second major project. I also built a 0→1 discovery platform for Gilead, building the experience around the emotional state a person arrives in.

Design work is about navigating constraints. Spotting the right opportunities, negotiating with legal and compliance teams, and reading the true business cost of a feature carry the same weight as the pixel-perfect delivery.

A designer's job runs past the Figma handoff. Products earn trust through predictable behavior and clean execution. That is why I write code. I build my own tools and prototypes with React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS, including this portfolio, so the engineering reality matches the design intent.

Selected projects

CorMedix

Rebuilding a biotech's investor hub around two opposite readers.

MSD / PD Point

Collapsing a 71-field exam request into three steps.

Gilead

A 0→1 platform organized by the emotional state a person arrives in.

Lurker.gg

A data-driven SaaS tool for CS2 analytics on positive expected value and Hit/Miss map trends.

Experience

Competitive Edge

Senior Product Designer (UX Lead)

2022 — Present

Direct all UX initiatives for global enterprise accounts, from scoping and technical ticketing to research and architecture.

Reverse-engineered fragmented Salesforce Lightning platforms into a unified, EU-approved Design System that scaled across LATAM teams.

Built an automated Figma-to-HTML email system that cut junior developer workload by 50%.

Act as the bridge between design and engineering across legacy CMS, Veeva, and Salesforce environments.

MSDP&GAstraZenecaDanone

IPG Health

Product Designer

2020 — 2022

Shipped digital products, websites, and Veeva CLM platforms at high volume for global pharma and enterprise clients.

Created a "Veeva Interaction Framework" that turned UI/UX capabilities into an animated guide.

Pioneered the agency's first 3D-integrated Visual Aid, owning modeling, texturing, animation, and rendering.

GileadNestléBMSBayer

Tugarê

UI Designer (Founding Digital Role)

2019 — 2020

Led the agency's move into digital products as its first dedicated UI Designer, owning all website and application architecture. I designed tools for healthcare professionals and built the company's first UI component libraries and design guidelines.

ZoetisTakedaLibbs

FSB Comunicação

Art Director (Innovation Team)

2018 — 2019

Led creative concepts inside the Innovation Team for top-tier clients. I designed and ran a company-wide workshop across 5 branches, teaching teams to turn emerging technologies into campaign mechanics.

iFoodHeinekenB3

Jawa Agência

Art Director

2016 — 2018

Directed creative concepts for internal marketing and sales-enablement campaigns. I designed motion-driven social assets that emulated interactive gameplay to support user acquisition.

HBOESPNFanatee

Multiple Agencies & Studios

Art Direction & Visual Foundation

2008 — 2016

Built my design foundation over 8 years, from Production Artist to Art Director. Designing high-fidelity packaging under the rigid constraints of physical printing taught me the pixel-perfect discipline and typographic rigor I apply to digital products today.

Toolbox & stack

Design

Systems Thinking, Behavioral Architecture, Rapid Prototyping, 3D Modeling

Code

Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, Python

For new projects, RPG sessions or just a good design chat, reach out.

quefreenproduct designer

Based in Sliema, Malta

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