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Available for projects from November

I design & build things that ship.

I'm Ezra Hollis, an independent product designer and front-end developer in Lisbon. For nine years I've helped start-ups turn rough ideas into apps, brands and websites people actually use.

I design & build things that ship.
Product design, Brand identity, Front-end, Design systems, 3D, Prototyping
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Years designing
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Countries, all remote
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02 — Services

How I can help

Product design

Research, UX and UI for apps and web products, from first sketch to developer hand-off.

From $9,000 Learn more

Brand identity

Logos, type and colour systems for founders who want to look as good as their product.

From $7,500 Learn more

Web development

Fast, accessible front-ends in React, Astro or plain HTML. Designed and built by the same person.

From $6,000 Learn more

Design systems

Component libraries in Figma and code that keep small teams consistent and fast.

From $8,000 Learn more
03 — Toolkit

Equal parts designer and developer

I design in Figma, think in systems and ship in code. Clients get one person who owns the whole journey from sketch to production.

  • Figma, Blender and After Effects
  • React, Astro and TypeScript
  • Accessibility and performance first
Product & UX design95%
Visual & brand design90%
Front-end development85%
3D & motion70%
04 — Experience

Where I've worked

  1. 2023 – now

    Independent designer & developer

    Product, brand and web projects for 30+ start-ups and studios across Europe and North America.

  2. 2020 – 2023

    Senior product designer, Northloop

    Led design for a travel-booking app used by two million people. Built the company's first design system.

  3. 2018 – 2020

    Designer & developer, Studio Ferro

    Designed and built websites for cultural clients in Lisbon and Porto.

  4. 2017

    BA Communication Design

    Graduated with distinction from the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts.

05 — Kind words

What clients say

Ezra listened to our researchers more carefully than we did. The app finally feels like a good notebook.

Dr. Amara Singh
Dr. Amara SinghCo-founder, Fieldnote

Rare to find someone who designs this well and also writes the code. Our coaches got their Sundays back.

Jess Kowalski
Jess KowalskiHead of Product, Tempo

Our users call the brand 'the jelly one'. We'll take it. Sign-ups have never been higher.

Marco Diaz
Marco DiazCEO, Orbit Finance

Readers write to us about the layout now. That has never happened in eleven years of publishing.

Hannah Oduya
Hannah OduyaEditor, Common Ground

Our one-star reviews stopped the week the new app shipped. Ezra fixed the thing we were too close to see.

Daniel Reyes
Daniel ReyesFounder, Lumen Home

People paused their scrolling for our ads. In consumer tech, that's the whole game.

Sofia Lindgren
Sofia LindgrenBrand director, Halcyon
06 — Now

What I'm up to this month

Building

A tiny typeface for dashboards

Tabular numbers, big apertures, zero ambiguity between 1, l and I.

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Slots open

For projects starting in November.

Reading

  • The Shape of Design
  • Thinking in Systems
  • Grid Systems
Listening

Ambient Works, on repeat

Good for long Figma afternoons.

Based in

Lisbon, GMT

Working hours overlap with EU and US East.

Make it work, make it clear, then make it beautiful. In that order, every time.

My one design rulePinned above my desk
07 — Notes

Writing on design & freelancing

Got a project?

Let's make something people actually use.

Tell me what you're building. I reply to every message within two working days.

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