Tessera is twenty-four designers and engineers in one room on Rua da Boavista. We started in 2015 with three people and a borrowed table, and we have stayed independent since.
The people you will work with.
Every project is led by someone on this page. We do not sell a partner and send a junior; the person in the first meeting is in the last one.
Inês Carvalho
Founder, creative director
Tomás Reis
Partner, technology
Marta Lopes
Design director
Daniel Okoro
Product design lead
Sofia Brandão
Head of production
Rui Antunes
Lead design engineer
Leah Whitfield
Motion designer
Hugo Matos
Brand designer
Aiko Tanaka
Product designer
Joana Pires
Studio manager
And fourteen more designers, engineers and producers.
Small teams, one room, and the work shown every week.
The people who run the first workshop design the product and build the site. Nothing is handed from one department to another.
Every Thursday you see the work as it is, in the browser or on paper. No polished decks, no surprises at the end.
A third of the studio writes code. What you approve on a screen is what ships, not a picture of it.
Source files, code and guidelines are yours from day one, and we train whoever looks after them next.
Studios, start-ups and a few institutions we have worked with.
Want to work here? We have three open roles.
See open roles