Resume · Based in Oslo

Paulo Seabra

Senior product and service designer with 15+ years of experience across public services, banking, payments, marketplaces and consultancy. Combines design and research with design leadership, systems thinking and product strategy.

Experience

  • 2026 – Present

    Lead Service Designer

    Service design, research and prototyping for complex public-sector and regulatory services.

  • 2024 – 2026

    Senior Designer / Cross-disciplinary Practice Manager

    Product and service design across banking, real estate and insurance, including product strategy, research, A/B testing and AI-supported ways of working.

  • 2021 – 2024

    Design Lead / Practice Manager

    Design leadership alongside consulting work. Led research and service design at Vipps and supported designers through mentoring, recruitment and design quality.

  • 2019 – 2021

    UX Manager / Design Leader

    Led a design team of 10–12 designers while working hands-on with marketplace products, research, design systems and product direction.

  • 2016 – 2019

    Lead Designer / Practice Manager, Service Design

    Led UX and service design across public and private-sector projects, including the Norwegian Police Pass & ID programme.

  • 2014 – 2016

    Senior Service and Interaction Adviser

    UX, service design, interaction design and user testing.

  • 2012 – 2014

    Senior Designer / Team Lead

    Digital design, interaction design and visual communication.

  • 2006 – 2012

    Head of Design

    Design leadership across digital products, branding and visual communication.

  • 2009 – 2011

    University Teacher, User Experience and Web Marketing

    • Taught User Experience and Web Marketing.
    • Earlier design roles at BLUG Group and Young & Rubicam.

Capabilities

  • Design leadership

    Led design teams of approximately 5–12 designers across product, consultancy and agency environments. Experience includes mentoring, recruitment, professional development, staffing, critique, design quality and shared ways of working.

  • Product & service design

    Hands-on experience designing complex services and digital products across public services, banking, payments, marketplaces and B2B platforms, connecting customer needs with business and technical constraints.

  • Research & evidence

    Qualitative research, interviews, usability testing, journey mapping, synthesis and A/B testing. Uses evidence to challenge assumptions, frame problems and support product decisions.

  • Product strategy & systems thinking

    Experience connecting user insight to product direction, prioritisation and decision-making. Works across complex journeys, organisational dependencies, legacy systems and multiple product teams.

  • Design systems & accessibility

    Experience with design-system governance, shared patterns, reusable components and universal design. Has worked with accessibility in both public-sector and commercial digital services.

  • AI-enabled design & prototyping

    Uses AI as part of everyday design and product work, including coded prototyping, model selection, AI-supported research and knowledge work, and specialised agents for domain and regulatory contexts.

Awards & recognition

  • 2017

    Santander Innovation Award

  • 2014

    TUB App — Design Served Gallery

  • 2013

    Budgivern — Web Design Served Gallery

  • 2012

    First Prize — Creative Process Design Award

  • 2009

    Raygun Website — FWA

  • Work showcased in Adweek Talent Gallery

  • Work showcased in Wookmark

Education

  • 2007 – 2009

    Master in UX

  • 1999 – 2003

    Master in Design

Professional development

  • 2026

    PARK Academy Advancing Design Leadership

  • 2025

    PARK Academy Design Leadership Programme

  • 2023

    Human-Centered Strategy

  • 2023

    Activating Strategy

  • 2023

    Designing Strategy

  • 2019

    Design Sprint

  • 2019

    Transforming Data into Powerful Stories

  • 2018

    Universell utforming: Avansert

  • 2018

    Universell utforming av IKT

  • 2016

    Lean Startup

  • 2014

    Atomic Design

  • Strong Communication / Magic Presentation

  • Type & User Perception

  • Active Conversations – Gi og motta tilbakemeldinger

  • Arduino – Creating Interactions

  • Information Visualization

  • Universell utforming for utviklere

  • Universell utforming: God design er en forutsetning for universell utforming

  • Universell utforming: Introduksjonskurs