about me!
Designer, tinkerer, simplifier
Twelve years of turning complicated things into things people actually want to use.
by the numbers
A decade of shipping
12
Years designing
40+
Products shipped
9
Industries
4.9
Avg. client rating
the story so far
How I got here
2026
Independent practice
Went out on my own to work directly with teams who care about the details.
2023
Lead designer, Searchless AI
Owned the product design surface from zero to a few hundred thousand users.
2020
Product designer, Meridian Health
Spent three years learning that the best healthcare software is the kind nobody notices.
2016
Started designing for real
First product job. Discovered that research, not pixels, is where the work begins.
kind words
What people say
August has the rare gift of making the complicated feel obvious. Our activation rate jumped the week we shipped the redesign.
Dana Okafor
VP Product, Meridian Health
Calm, fast, and zero ego. Slotted into our team and quietly raised the bar on everything we touched.
Marco Reyes
Founder, Stylebook
We came in with seven opinions and left with one clear plan. Worth every cent of the discovery week.
Priya Shah
CEO, North Light
questions?
Good to know
What kind of work do you take on?
End-to-end product design - research, interaction, prototyping, and motion. I'm happiest on complex problems with real users on the other side.
Are you available right now?
Yes, for the right projects. I keep a small number of clients at a time so each one gets real attention.
Do you work solo or with a team?
Both. I can run the whole design surface myself or slot into an existing team and raise the bar.
Where are you based?
Lisbon, working with teams across Europe and the US. Remote-first, with the occasional on-site sprint.
How do we start?
A short call to see if it's a fit, then a paid discovery week so we both know what we're getting into.
let's talk
I'm most energized by projects where I can dig into complex problems and ship things that improve someone's day.
Contact
Open to contract work, full-time roles, and interesting conversations about hard design problems.
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