[About Me]

I'm a self-taught design engineer. What began as a design career slowly pulled me toward building things myself, starting with Webflow. Now, AI lets me finally build the ideas I used to only hand off.

Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso
Lucas Gusso

[Background]

I started out as a designer and worked across nearly every corner of the craft. But I was always drawn to code and to shipping real things — and with AI, I’ve finally been able to build them myself.

[Teams I’ve Worked With]

C6 Bank × JP Morgan

Veza Digital

Dog & Pony Studio

Montgomery Code

Webflow

[Generalist Designer]

Because I always loved moving between all of those design disciplines, I ended up learning a little of everything in a very self-taught way. That generalist instinct is what lets me carry an idea from concept through design and all the way into working code.

[Specialties]

Branding

Product Design

Website Design

SaaS

Animations

Interactions

AI Workflow

Holding a MacBook on the bed
Karting on track at Raceland

Hobbies

Photography, sports, and motorsport. Today I race karts, I've always loved capturing moments, and gaming has stayed with me too.

Don't Forget Music

Always playing wherever I am. I've loved music forever and even dabbled in producing a bit. Here's the playlist on constant repeat.

Philosophy

The best design is the one that ships. I'd rather build the thing than describe it. Craft over convention, always.

Running my own products rewired how I work on everyone else's. I care about the same things a founder does: does it ship, does it get used, does it move the business at all.

HOW I WORK

That changes how I show up. I care about the reasoning behind a project as much as the execution, and I'll push back when the two don't line up. I've shipped enough of my own work to know that a beautiful thing nobody uses is still a failure, so I optimize for the version that actually earns its place.

This only works because of how I build now. AI carries the load that used to need a team, which frees me to run the full arc of a product, from positioning to launch, at one consistent standard. One head, a lot of leverage, every call made by the person who answers for it.

End to End

Strategy & Positioning

Design & Direction

Motion & Interaction

Engineering & Build

Launch & Iteration

PRINCIPLES

Design & Code

Outcomes over Output

Ship over Polish

Fewer, Better Things

AI as Leverage

HOW I THINK

Founding Design Engineer

0-to-1 Product Builds

Product & Design Advisory

Embedded Partner

Full Build-Outs

Availability

Remote Worldwide

Based in Brazil (GMT-3)

Open to New Work

Short or Long Term

Currently Available

These are the tools I actually reach for, one for each stage of a project. The list runs wide because the work does, and because the right tool lets one person cover a whole specialty.

Figma

UI & Prototyping

Interface Design

Design

Webflow

Marketing Sites

Visual Development

Build

GSAP

Scroll & Interactions

Web Animation

Build

After Effects

Motion & Lottie

Animation

Design

Supabase

Database & Auth

Backend

Build

Claude Code

AI Pair Programming

Agentic Coding

Build

Cursor

AI Code Editor

Agentic Coding

Build

Astro

Web Framework

Static Sites

Build

GitHub

Version Control

Collaboration

Ship

Vercel

Hosting & Deploys

Infrastructure

Ship

Resend

Transactional Email

Communication

Grow

Loops

Lifecycle Email

Communication

Grow

PostHog

Product Analytics

Insights

Grow

Framer

Interactive Prototypes

Design & Build

Design