Duds Mendes is a highly skilled digital designer with extensive experience in web and app interface design, graphic design, and illustrations. He is highly proficient in UX, interaction, interface, usability, design strategy, design systems, and designOps. Duds is passionate about typography, calligraphy, and lettering, and enjoys participating in related workshops and courses.

Duds holds a degree in Design Digital from Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, and has worked in various design roles, including DesignOps Lead at Cora, Design Specialist at Easynvest, Senior Visual Designer at Easynvest, Visual Designer at Grupo ZAP, Designer Sênior at Minha Vida, Designer at Abril, and Estagiário em Design at Abril.

At present, Duds leads Cora's DesignOps team and is highly focused on design systems and designOps efforts. He is also a former mentor at Tera and a former member of PretUX.