about me
Matheus
Monteiro
product design
ux / ui
education
Role Product Designer & Educator
Currently
Open to full-time roles and freelance projects
My story
Most people watch the show. I've always needed to know how it's made.
That same drive carried me into an academic path in History and International Relations. I needed to answer bigger versions of the same question: how did we get here? What I found was a deep appreciation for the human narrative, the story that civilizations have been telling and retelling since the dawn of writing. My binational upbringing between the US and Brazil, and coming of age in New York, made that story personal. Growing up between cultures sharpened my sensitivity to difference, but it also revealed the universal threads that connect us across all of it.t
My path into design wasn't direct. I spent years teaching English, a career that sharpened my communication instincts and my ability to translate complex ideas for different audiences. It was through teaching designers that I first encountered the field up close, and the more I learned, the more I recognized it: this was the synthesis I had been circling my entire life.
Design brings together the visual language I fell in love with as a kid, the humanist thinking I developed through history and culture, and that lifelong compulsion to understand how things work. And then make them work better.