About
Gilmar Dias
UX/UI designer and art director · Brasília, Brazil
I've been a designer for over 15 years. I started as an art director at an agency, creating campaigns and identities for local brands, and kept broadening my range: graphic design, video, 2D and 3D animation, interfaces.
For almost five years I led the design team at the communications office of DNIT, Brazil's federal transport infrastructure agency, through Accenture: visual identity, campaigns, video, animation and photography for a nationwide public institution. I then coordinated multimedia production for the communications office of Brazil's Ministry of Infrastructure, through FSB Comunicação.
Today I bring the two sides of my career together: over 15 years of graphic design and art direction, and the experience thinking of UX, where I work as a senior designer. That combination is what I bring to every project: an identity or interface that tells a clear story and works for the people who'll use it — and, when the project calls for it, in video and motion design too.
- 15+
- years in design and communication
- ~5
- years leading creative at DNIT
- 2
- MBAs in marketing and branding
Experience
- 2022 — present
UX/UI Designer → Senior UX Designer
Stefanini Brasil
User research, information architecture and interaction design for digital products.
- 2021 — 2022
Freelance designer
Centelha Criativa
- 2020 — 2021
Multimedia coordinator
FSB Comunicação
Graphic deliveries for Brazil's Ministry of Infrastructure campaigns, and training the creative team in non-destructive production workflows.
- 2015 — 2020
Creative director — DNIT communications
Accenture Brasil
Led the creative team; branding guidelines, identities, campaigns, video, interfaces, 2D and 3D animation.
- 2011 — 2015
Graphic designer
SEGRAF — Polícia Civil do DF
- 2007 — 2011
Art director and graphic designer
Agência 2Sete · ETITEC
Campaigns and visual identities for food retail and automotive clients.
Why work with me
- Systems thinking: brands that work from avatar to storefront, from stationery to fleet
- Concept before form: every symbol starts from an idea you can explain
- Real-world scale: nearly five years leading creative for a nationwide federal agency
- Graphic design with UX thinking: it has to look good and work for the people using it
- AI in the process, not in place of it: it speeds up production without outsourcing the concept
- Clear communication: I explain every step, no jargon
Education
- Software Engineering in Applied AI (in progress)UNIPDS · 2026
- MBA in Competitive Intelligence and Marketing InnovationDescomplica · 2023
- MBA in Marketing and BrandingDescomplica · 2022
- Bachelor's in Social Communication — AdvertisingUniversidade Estácio de Sá · 2012