Prior to moving to Google to work on Android, Duarte had similar roles in Palm, Inc.’s webOS,[2] the Helio Ocean[3] and the Danger Hiptop (T-Mobile Sidekick).
He left Psycroft in 1996 at which time he moved to Hyper Image Productions where he was the lead designer on Phase Zero, an unreleased shooter game for the Atari Jaguar.
In 1997 he left Hyper Image Productions and moved to MagicArts where he filled the role of Vice President of Design until 1999.
In August 2005 he took up a role at Helio, as Vice President Experience Design and left shortly before the company was acquired by Virgin Mobile.
In September 2007 Duarte was hired as the Vice President at Palm, Inc. to lead development of Palm’s webOS Human Interface and User Experience and introduced the design of webOS at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.