Amuse Bouche
Portuguese gastronomy PR & brand activation agency website, producers of events with Michelin-starred chefs, recognized by the Portuguese Gastronomy Academy.
The problem
No website. A decade of award-winning events, and a brief that demanded irreverent and premium at once.
My role
Part of the team at duall®studio as Junior UX Designer, Mobile Design, 3D specialist. Early in my career.
The brief
To build something that felt both irreverent and classy: a digital platform that could sit alongside the world's best cultural and gastronomic institutions without feeling corporate or generic.
Tech stack
WebGL · Three.js · GSAP · Barba.js · WordPress · Figma
Key decisions
Designing the mobile experience as a first-class version, not a scaled-down one
Using 3D to create atmosphere, not to showcase technology
Food is sensory. A static website about gastronomy fights itself. The WebGL loading experience and Three.js transitions were designed to create anticipation and richness that photography alone can't — and for a Portuguese gastronomy brand, that unexpectedness was exactly the irreverence the brief asked for.
QA as a design responsibility
On a project this technically complex, a broken transition or misresolved animation destroys the premium feeling everything else was built on. I treated every interaction and load state as a design moment to be verified — not functional code to be ticked off.
What I' learned
Attention to detail leads to better outcomes
This was a team project early in my career. The awards were a shared achievement, what I took from it was a standard for craft and attention to detail I've held in every project since.