Senior Product Designer for AI and complex products.

Technology is becoming more intelligent. That doesn’t automatically make products easier to understand. I design products where trust cannot be assumed. From AI-powered experiences to complex enterprise systems, I help teams transform uncertainty into products people can understand, inspect, correct, and confidently act on.

13+ years designing decision-critical products across GovTech, fintech, enterprise SaaS, real estate, and AI.

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Brasília, Brazil · UTC−3

Working remotely across the Americas and Europe

Open to relocation

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Built to work with global teams

Thecontextschange.Thejobremainssurprisinglyconsistent:understandthesystem,alignthepeople,andmakethenextdecisionclearer.
Thecontextschange.Thejobremainssurprisinglyconsistent:understandthesystem,alignthepeople,andmakethenextdecisionclearer.
Thecontextschange.Thejobremainssurprisinglyconsistent:understandthesystem,alignthepeople,andmakethenextdecisionclearer.

Claims are easy.
Evidence is more useful.

A few outcomes I’m particularly proud of.
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Revenue growth before acquisition

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Revenue growth before acquisition

My work on Data Studio and Ask Markerr helped Markerr grow from data provider into product company — a repositioning that ended in its acquisition.

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faster audit reporting e-TCE

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faster audit reporting e-TCE

Led the UX of an AI-powered audit platform — redesigning the workflows behind the writing of audit instructions and reports, in one of the country's most skeptical institutions.

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Let's work together

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Products and Initiatives

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Products and Initiatives

Designed across public services, finance, real estate, enterprise platforms, machine learning, and AI-assisted workflows. Twenty-plus products. Far more edge cases.

How I work

My process changes with the problem.
The principles below usually do not.
My process changes with the problem.
The principles below usually do not.

When everything feels complicated, direction becomes the product.

Every complex product eventually reaches a point where nobody agrees on what the real problem is. That’s usually where I become useful. I help teams untangle systems, competing priorities, and technical constraints until the next decision becomes clear enough to move forward.

Design the failure states, not just the happy path

Intelligent and high-stakes products rarely behave perfectly. I design for uncertainty, partial success, correction, recovery, and the moments when users need to take control.

Happy paths make good demos. Recovery paths make trustworthy products.

Prototype close to reality

I use coded and AI-assisted prototypes when static screens cannot answer the important questions — especially around interaction, system behaviour, responsiveness, and feasibility.

The closer the prototype is to reality, the more useful the conversation becomes. Whenever possible, prototypes use the product’s real components, tokens, and interaction rules.

Prototype close to reality

I use coded and AI-assisted prototypes when static screens cannot answer the important questions — especially around interaction, system behaviour, responsiveness, and feasibility.

The closer the prototype is to reality, the more useful the conversation becomes. Whenever possible, prototypes use the product’s real components, tokens, and interaction rules.

One idea has followed me through my entire career.

I started in advertising trying to understand how people make decisions. Later I became interested in the systems behind those decisions. Today I’m exploring how AI changes both. Different technologies. Surprisingly similar questions.
That’s what this portfolio is really about.

Explore how I think

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How I can help you with

How I can help you with

Designing AI people can understand and question.

Designing AI workflows people can understand, inspect, correct, and control.

  • LLM and conversational interfaces

  • Generative UI

  • Human-in-the-loop workflows

  • Verification and correction patterns

  • AI failure and recovery states

Making difficult products easier to think with.

Turning ideas into products that survive implementation.

Designing AI people can understand and question.

Designing AI workflows people can understand, inspect, correct, and control.

  • LLM and conversational interfaces

  • Generative UI

  • Human-in-the-loop workflows

  • Verification and correction patterns

  • AI failure and recovery states

Making difficult products easier to think with.

Turning ideas into products that survive implementation.

In other words: bring me the problem that keeps getting described as “a little complicated.”

Off the clock, I go looking for focus in other forms:

You will usually find me practising kendo, reading about human behaviour and technology, planning a trip, playing tabletop games, or enthusiastically testing a tool I discovered five minutes ago.

Kendo teaches discipline. Zen teaches attention. Games teach systems. Travel reminds me that most assumptions are local.

Somehow, they all find their way back into the work.

Off the clock, I go looking for focus in other forms:

You will usually find me practising kendo, reading about human behaviour and technology, planning a trip, playing tabletop games, or enthusiastically testing a tool I discovered five minutes ago.

Kendo teaches discipline. Zen teaches attention. Games teach systems. Travel reminds me that most assumptions are local.

Somehow, they all find their way back into the work.

Off the clock, I go looking for focus in other forms:

You will usually find me practising kendo, reading about human behaviour and technology, planning a trip, playing tabletop games, or enthusiastically testing a tool I discovered five minutes ago.

Kendo teaches discipline. Zen teaches attention. Games teach systems. Travel reminds me that most assumptions are local.

Somehow, they all find their way back into the work.

Daniel Canabrava Torres

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