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title: Danilo Leal joins MUI
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description: We are excited to share that Danilo Leal has joined MUI.
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date: 2021-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
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authors: ['oliviertassinari']
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tags: ['Company']
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manualCard: true
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We are excited to share that [Danilo Leal](https://daniloleal.co/) has joined MUI!
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He started a couple of days ago as a Lead Designer.
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Before joining MUI, he worked as a designer at Loggi, a Brazilian logistics unicorn.
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He has spent the last five years diving into product design, product strategy, and design systems.
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Danilo strongly believes that code is a fundamental piece of a designer's work. It is, after all, the real medium through where users experience the product.
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For instance, one of his continuous contributions to Loggi was deep-diving into MUI's codebase to fulfill Loggi's customization needs.
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His aspirations are well aligned with where we want to push the company in the long term.
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He wants to challenge the status quo.
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He wants to push the envelope around how products are built.
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We believe there are two high potential opportunities to explore: 1. how designers and developers collaborate, 2. how accessible is creating custom UIs.
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His design [challenge assignment](https://www.figma.com/file/UPgXH2mdWqV8QzAuN5VM37/Danilo-assignment) (done under a few hours) gave us confidence that Danilo is exactly who the role needs.
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While we can't predict the future, he's initially leading the design rebranding effort.
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Then, he will likely focus on a [second design system](https://github.com/mui/material-ui/issues/22485).
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We couldn't be more excited to have Danilo on the team! He's the first designer to join us, ever.
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A focus area with high potential 🌈 and that we have underinvested in for too long.
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See the other areas we want to invest in: we are [hiring](/careers/#open-roles).
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