I’m a product and digital designer exploring how the things around us shape perception, learning, and the ways we relate. I’m currently working on new objects, speculative interfaces, and a skincare brand devoted to simplifying the act of care.

Highlights

Gestures as writing extensions

Gestures as writing extensions

Gestures as writing extensions

Texture iteration for Formula A02.

Distiller


A vapour distillation object for extracting essential oils from botanical matter. Designed as both a functional tool and a reflection on how scent holds memory.


A vapour distillation object for extracting essential oils from botanical matter. Designed as both a functional tool and a reflection on how scent holds memory.

CIRQ — Water tap series

Progressive tap series.

Progressive tap series.

Progressive tap series.

Progressive cartridge and internal haptic feedback components.

Progressive cartridge and internal haptic feedback components.

Progressive cartridge and internal haptic feedback components.

Gestures as writing extensions

An interface proposal exploring margin annotations and inline version control. Writing tools tend to enforce linearity. This asks what happens when the interface adapts to how thought actually moves between fragments, drafts, and references.

An interface proposal exploring margin annotations and inline version control. Writing tools tend to enforce linearity. This asks what happens when the interface adapts to how thought actually moves between fragments, drafts, and references.

Nehó

Precision skincare formulations designed around the skin's own repair mechanisms. Pre-launch.

Precision skincare formulations designed around the skin's own repair mechanisms. Pre-launch.

Lost trails

Browser history logs every click but loses the thread. This essay examines why retrieval still feels broken and proposes a model based on spatial orientation, clustering, and gradual immersion, treating browsing history as a place to explore rather than a list to scan.

Browser history logs every click but loses the thread. This essay examines why retrieval still feels broken and proposes a model based on spatial orientation, clustering, and gradual immersion, treating browsing history as a place to explore rather than a list to scan.

©2026 André Duarte

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©2026 André Duarte