About
Gabriel Russo Vitagliano
Design engineer, builder, and chronic overthinker. Usually in that order.
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, but raised in a small city between TV cartoons, comic books, and a deep obsession with computers during the early internet days. I was the kind of kid who could spend hours clicking through folders and exploring software, customizing things that didn't need customization, and getting fascinated by how digital worlds were built.
Photography became a huge part of my life during my teens and ended up shaping the way I approach almost everything creatively. It taught me to pay attention to light, balance, rhythm, and emotion, and that way of seeing naturally carried into both my work and the way I experience the world.
When I'm not in front of a screen, I'm usually surrounded by plants, wandering through nature with a camera, hanging out with my dogs, or getting lost reading about something completely unrelated to what I should be doing.
Currently
ENVIESADOS
Rian Dutra
Field Notes
Beliefs I try to live by
Show your thinking
A prototype worth seeing is worth showing half-finished. Waiting until it's perfect means waiting until it's too late to change.
Make it work, then make it beautiful, then question whether it needed to exist
Shipping something rough beats polishing something forever. But ruthless editing — of features, words, animations — is what separates useful from memorable.
Slow down to go fast
The hour spent really understanding a problem is the one that prevents two weeks of building the wrong thing. I've learned this the hard way, more than once.
Stay a beginner
The most interesting work happens at the edges of what I know. Discomfort means growth; fluency can become a trap.