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I design software people use at work, and I keep the receipts. Over 12 years
I have shipped 3 products used by millions, run research with 600+ users, and built a
design system now used by 40 engineers across 4 teams. This page runs my career
as episodes: what shipped, how long it took, what the notes said. Play from the top,
or skip to whatever matters to you.
Episodes
11Ep
Design Lead · Novabank
▷ 3 yr 4 mo
2023 – Present · Lisbon
- Lead a team of 6 designers on the retail banking app, 2.1M monthly users.
- Rebuilt onboarding around a 4-step flow; drop-off fell from 38% to 19% in 2 quarters.
- Set up the first weekly research cadence; the team now runs 5 to 8 sessions a week.
Team leadership
Fintech
Design ops
10Ep
Senior Product Designer · Cartogram
▷ 2 yr 7 mo
2020 – 2023 · Remote
- Owned the mapping editor end to end; grew weekly active use from 9k to 61k.
- Built the component library that became the company design system, 220 components.
- Ran a 5-city field study with 34 planners; findings reshaped the 2022 roadmap.
Design systems
Field research
Maps
09Ep
Product Designer · Halden Health
▷ 2 yr 2 mo
2018 – 2020 · Berlin
- Designed the clinician dashboard used across 12 partner hospitals.
- Cut average chart-review time from 6 minutes to 90 seconds through layout work.
- Wrote the accessibility checklist the whole product team still uses.
Healthcare
Accessibility
Data density
08Ep
Junior Designer · Foundry Studio
▷ 2 yr 5 mo
2016 – 2018 · London
- Shipped 14 client projects across retail, travel, and public sector.
- Learned to run a room: facilitated my first 20 stakeholder workshops here.
Agency
Facilitation
Season notes · Education
- MA Interaction Design
- Royal College of Craft, London · 2014 – 2016
- BSc Cognitive Science
- University of Leeds · 2011 – 2014 · First class
- Certificate
- Accessibility for Product Teams, 2021
Featured guests · Skills
Figma
Prototyping
User research
Design systems
Accessibility
HTML / CSS
Workshops
Roadmapping
Portuguese (B2)