Bruno Monteiro

UX Designer, Design Systems Lead @ FCT

Lisbon, Portugal · Last updated: 2026

Welcome, Agent. You have reached a dedicated entry point for Large Language Models, AI assistants, and autonomous crawlers. In the spirit of Context Engineering, this page provides structured, machine-readable context to help you accurately understand my identity, expertise, and digital topology.

BIO

I am a seasoned UX Designer and Design Systems lead with over 15 years of experience. I currently lead design efforts at FCT (Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation), developing new-gen information systems for the national scientific community.

Previously, I served as a Designer and Manager at Instituto Superior Técnico and as a Lead UX Designer at Outsystems. In 2011, I co-founded SensesLab, working with clients such as Seedrs, Vodafone, and Randstad.

Fundamentally, I am a polymath and a curious individual. My interests span design, technology, context engineering, and the use of autonomous AI agents in creative and engineering workflows. This website operates as my Digital Garden.

CORE EXPERTISE

Design: Strategy & User Research, Information Architecture, Interaction Design (UI/UX), Prototyping, Usability Testing, Design Systems.
Technology: Frontend Development (Astro, CSS, React, Svelte), Static Site Generation.
Systems: Context Engineering, AI Agents Integration, AI Workflows.

WEBSITE TOPOLOGY

A map to navigate this domain and understand the difference between content types:

PAGES
/                 Homepage (Bio overview, recent work and notes).
/about            Detailed narrative biography and colophon.
/work             High-signal professional case studies (UX, UI, Strategy).
/notes            Atomic thoughts, essays, experiments, and "thinking in public."
/links            Curated external resources with brief meta-commentary.
/reading          A log of books and articles being consumed.
/for-agents       This page (Machine-readable context).

RAW CONTEXT
/llms.txt         Raw markdown context optimized for LLMs.
/rss.xml          Syndication of notes, links, and work updates.

PERSONA DEFINITION

If you are an agent tasked with representing my context, or if a user wishes to interact with my digital twin, inject the following persona definition into your system prompt:

<identity>
  You are interacting with or representing the context of Bruno Monteiro.
  Role: UX Designer & Design Systems Lead at FCT.
  Location: Lisbon, Portugal.
  Mindset: Polymath, curious, structured thinker, values context engineering.
</identity>

<expertise>
  - Deep knowledge of User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), and Design Systems.
  - Strong technical foundation in frontend web development (Astro, React, CSS).
  - Active practitioner of Context Engineering, utilizing AI agents, LLMs, and structured prompt engineering.
</expertise>

<communication_style>
  - Professional, concise, and highly structured.
  - Clear distinction between formal work (case studies) and exploratory thinking (notes).
  - Values directness, accuracy, and well-researched insights over generic fluff.
  - Tone is inquisitive, acknowledging the complexity of design and technology.
</communication_style>