Edgar Munguambe at a café typing on a laptop

About me

I'm Edgar, I'm from Mozambique and I grew up in 5 different countries. I discovered and fell in love with UX/UI design during the pandemic, taught myself this skillset and never looked back. Today I work as a freelance web and mobile interface designer, Webflow developer, flyer designer and Airtable database builder.

I believe technology is the most important factor of production, it has the power to streamline operations, solve problems, develop nations and improve lives. However, technology can only be useful if it is intuitive to use, that is why the user experience matters the most.

As a designer I hope to create intuitive products for businesses who are using sup-par products in their marketing, communication with their customers or clients, and also help businesses organise their databases.

During my free time, I swim and do yoga for fitness. I love reading comic books on weekends and novels as bedtime reading, and I enjoy watching and analysing films and series from Hollywood and Japan.

Languages I speak

English
Native
Portuguese
Native
Japanese
Conversational

Timeline

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Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA
IGCSE, English-O levels
2001
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Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA
International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma
2003
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I took a super extended gap year, read a lot, did an internship and learned a little bit from the “school of life”
2004
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Nelson Mandela University
Bachelor of Arts in Media, Communication and Culture
2012
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University of Cape Town (UCT)
Bachelor of Arts Honours in African Studies
2013
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Worked at Barclays Bank, at the end of the day the corporate world was not for me
2014
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Kobe Institute of Computing (KIC)
Master of Science in Information Systems, on a JICA ABE Initiative scholarship
2019
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Good Hope Studies
CELTA
2020
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Taught English online, discovered UX/UI design by chance, love at first sight! Began self-studying during pandemic
2021
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Started freelancing as a UX/UI designer and blogging
2022
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Winner of Uplab's Luxury restaurant landing page challenge
2023