I’m Vinicius Sueiro — a designer using technology to inform & delight humans

Sometimes that means I’m a front end developer an interaction designer a data visualization developer an information designer a software engineer a university lecturer a web developer a data visualization consultant a creative technologist a product designer

With over 12 years of experience, I have recently designed and developed data-driven projects for Google, the Washington Post, and the World Health Organization.

My work has been awarded the “Best in Show” 🏆 by SND , among 1,700 entries worldwide – as well as the best data visualization in Latin America by WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards.

I was also a judge for Brasil Design Awards 2021 and Information is Beautiful Awards 2023 and 2024.

In 2021, I wrote my first book chapter! Buy the book here (in Portuguese).

In early 2022, I taught datavis and web development at IDP & Insper (graduate programs in Brazil). Now, I am a full-time lecturer at the University of Miami, where I teach coding, design & data visualization.

On the technical side, I enjoy learning new job-specific tools. But here are my all-time favorites:

JavaScript
CSS
HTML
Python
Svelte
Git

Below you’ll find some of my data-driven projects — as well as a cute dinosaur if you scroll all the way down. 🦖

Google & Lupa — 2020
Humanizing Covid‑19 Data

By simulating what would happen if all Covid‑19 deaths in Brazil happened in your neighborhood, “No Epicentro” tries to humanize an evergrowing number
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Screen-recording of the mobile version of the website, after a user entered an address. The main visual of the interface is a black map with white dots (each dot represents one death), displayed in a huge circle around the user’s location.
Master’s Thesis — 2021
Digging a Hole Through Earth

SuperTunnel is an educational tool that simulates a hole through Earth, indicating where in the world you would end up if you dug in a certain direction
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Besides playing with the desktop version of the SuperTunnel Simulator, people could interact with a physical shovel (a tangible interface) to control the direction of the tunnel – as part of an installation in science museums.
Estadão — 2019
Child Adoption Simulation

A story on how age & disabilities impact a child’s likelihood of being chosen by a foster parent, using growing plants as a visual metaphor
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Desktop and mobile version of an interactive chart that represents children as tiny plants, that grow as time passes – while they wait for a new parent to adopt them. These plants are also grouped by categories such as ethnicity, siblings and disabilities.
Personal — 2017
Government Barbecues

Thousands of overpriced meals were purchased by the Brazilian government with public money. This fiery chart shows them all
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Desktop version of website design for data journalism news article focused on government expenses on barbecues.
Estadão — 2019
FaceApp’s Racial Bias Experiment

After applying the aging filter 5× on the same photos, all faces were whitened, indicating racially biased dataset was used to train the app’s AI
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A visual composition showcasing black actor Terry Crews as an animation: from his original photo, then to the result of the first image filter, then to the second, and so on. The result is a looped animation in which his face gets more white after each filter (and also extremely distorted by excessive wrinkles).
Estadão — 2017
Delivering mobile-ready infographics

Uva is an in-house tool for publishing responsive graphics, seamlessly embedded in news articles, reaching 30M+ readers within 2 years of launch
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World Health Organization — 2021
Explaining Covid‑19 Vaccination Benefits

With illustrated analogies & a friendly conversational tone, this series of social media videos try to explain why vaccination is important
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A social media post simulates a chat between a person and WHO. It explains why vaccination is important to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, which leads to people (Covid-19 patients, but also other patients) being left untreated. To explain that, the video uses an analogy of a cup (representing the capacity of a hospital), which is overflown with colored balls. Every ball represents a patient. Those who fell outside of the cup represent patients who were not able to get treatment due to overcrowded hospitals.
Personal — 2024
Tracking SHEIN’s Composition Labels

Using automated data collection and analysis, we feature fast fashion’s top biodegradable clothes, focusing on natural fibers like cotton, viscose & linen
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Personal — 2019
Eco‑Friendly Dinosaur Toys

“Montadino” is a concept initiative for crafting toys from reused EVA foam, which is largely used in schools and often goes to waste
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Animation where a cute T-Rex (toy in red) is mounting a Brontosaur (toy in brown), which sucumbs to the T-Rex weight. The dinosaur on top keeps moving his head in loop – as if trying to understand the situation.