Otavio Vidal ✺
About Otavio Vidal ✺
Otavio Vidal is a Senior Product Designer at Hopper in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and a mentor at adplist.org. He has extensive experience in design systems and product design, having worked at QuintoAndar and SA365 in São Paulo, Brazil.
Company
Otavio Vidal is currently serving as a Senior Product Designer at Hopper in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Parallelly, he is also contributing his expertise at adplist.org as a Design Systems and Product Design mentor. Otavio's professional journey also includes substantial experience at QuintoAndar and SA365, enriching his portfolio with diverse responsibilities spanning from design systems to mentorship roles.
Title
Otavio Vidal holds the title of Senior Product Designer at Hopper and is known for his role in mentoring at adplist.org. His career track is distinguished by progressive positions in the field of product design and design systems, indicating a deep commitment to enhancing user experience and design consistency.
Education and Expertise
Otavio Vidal graduated from Universidade de São Paulo with a degree in Advertising and Marketing in 2019. He further pursued his postgraduate studies at Universidade Paulista, achieving a degree in Communication and Media Studies in 2020. His educational background has fortified his expertise in communication, media, advertising, and marketing, underlying his well-rounded approach to product design.
Career Background
Otavio Vidal began his professional journey as a Design Intern at SA365, where he worked for two years from 2016 to 2018. He then advanced to a Designer role within the same company, continuing until 2018. Post-SA365, Otavio joined QuintoAndar in various capacities - initially as a Product Designer in 2018-2019, subsequently transitioning to roles within the design systems team until 2021. His extensive tenure in these roles helped him gain substantial experience in developing reusable and accessible design patterns, streamlining cross-functional design documentation, and maintaining consistency through Figma libraries.
Design System Contributions
At QuintoAndar, Otavio Vidal was pivotal in advancing the company's design systems. He authored comprehensive documentation to streamline processes across teams and played a significant role in evolving the visual language of the systems. Otavio focused on creating a layered design tokens system, developing components of varied atomicity, and ensuring consistency through Figma libraries. His advocacy for design consistency impacted over 90 product designers within the company.