thiago vaccaro

thiago vaccaro

About

For 12+ years I've built design from the ground up: at startups, venture builders, and inside Brazil's biggest banks. I was the founding designer at Caju, a design leader inside Itaú's venture builder, and led a full brand overhaul at Petz. Today I'm on the founding team at Magie, Brazil's first AI-powered bank on WhatsApp, leading design across the whole product surface: conversational AI, payments, Open Finance, and the go-to-market and prototypes that put it in front of enterprise clients.



The thread isn't a title. It's that I build the thing, not a deck about the thing. I've shipped an iOS app and AI agents on my own, paired with engineers in the code instead of waiting on a roadmap, and worked across brand, product, and strategy because the seams between them are where most products break.



Which is also why I care about craft the way I do. AI leveled execution - anyone can ship a prototype in ten minutes — so what's left is judgment: knowing what's worth building, and the care to make it right. I don't treat taste as a private gift. I break it into its parts, name them, and defend them out loud. The rest of this page is me showing my work.

AI executes anything you can describe. What it can't do is decide what should exist, or notice the detail that makes it land. I use it to its limit - then do the part it can't, and sweat the difference.

That edge is where craft lives now. And it's where I work.

AI executes anything you can describe. What it can't do is decide what should exist, or notice the detail that makes it land. I use it to its limit - then do the part it can't, and sweat the difference.

That edge is where craft lives now. And it's where I work.

Case study
Case study

Brand Refresh

Case study
Case study

Brand & Product

Brand & Product

Brand & Product

Case study
Case study

Brand & Product

Brand & Product

Brand & Product

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The off-screen part

The off-screen part

Finally, a quick peek into my world

When I'm not designing, I'm usually behind a pair of CDJs or somewhere I've never been. Neither is a hobby on the side — they're where my references comes from. A set teaches you to read a room and earn the next track. A new city shows you ten ways to solve a problem you thought had one. The eye is only as good as the range behind it, so I keep widening it when I can.

When I'm not designing, I'm usually behind a pair of CDJs or somewhere I've never been. Neither is a hobby on the side — they're where my references comes from. A set teaches you to read a room and earn the next track. A new city shows you ten ways to solve a problem you thought had one. The eye is only as good as the range behind it, so I keep widening it when I can.