João Montenegro is a designer and product person.
Native to high-tech and industrial design, João’s motto is to better the world by humanizing technology. He has designed, developed, and launched new hardware and digital products with startups since he was studying in university, where he later was invited to teach Project in Design. His journey into the startup ecosystem has moved him through company builders and VCs, to building his own product design studio, and eventually joining Code For All to help kickstart ubbu.
When he is not designing 3d printers, vehicles, and digital products & services, João spends his time doing amateur astronomy in inhospitable places, talking about the future with friends, and reading Nat Geo magazine.
You can reach him on Twitter at @johnmontenegro
Projects
- Bee The First"The Beeverycreative Beethefirst ($2,499), the kickoff product from Portuguese company Beeverycreative, is not your typical 3D printer. It has a handsome and compact frame design, is easy enough to set up and run, and showed very good print quality at high resolution." - PCMag.com “We are thrilled to see BEETHEFIRST being acknowledged as the portable and easy-to-use 3D printer by one of the most respected references in the industry. We will keep imprinting change with 3D printing!” - Make Magazine
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Work history
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Product DesignLessonLeap
Amsterdam, NetherlandsPart Time
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MentorLisbon Challenge
Lisbon, PortugalFreelance
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Skills
- Product Design
- 3D CAD
- Concept Sketching
- Front-end
- UX
- Product Development
- Product Management
- Lean Startup
- Digital Startup
- Computer Hardware
Education
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Erasmus International University Exchange ProgramPolitecnico di Milano
- Italy
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Master in Design Management and InnovationUniversity of Aveiro
- Portugal
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Awards
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Honours for Best in ClassUniversity of Aveiro