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Designer
Location
Berlin, Germany
Toptal Member Since
December 16, 2022
With ten years of experience as a UI and UX designer, Catarina has helped startups and well-established companies like Deutsche Bahn create their brand and design the experience for multiple digital products. She can successfully work with different team sizes and adapt to the current system while bringing her expertise, creative input, and challenging problems when necessary. Catarina's work involves wireframing, interface design, prototyping, usability testing, and visual design.
Work Experience
UI and UX Concept Designer Specialist
2023 - PRESENT
Volkswagen
- Designed new features for a mobile product that is being used by multiple brands from the Volkswagen group.
- Collaborated closely with other designers, developers, and multiple stakeholders to ensure that user and business requirements are met and aligned with everyone.
- Planned and managed the design work according to the team's roadmap.
- Aligned consistently with the design system team and other feature teams to ensure consistency across teams and platforms on every UI component and UX pattern.
Technologies: Figma, Confluence, Jira, Teams
UI and UX Designer
2021 - 2022
bitcrowd
- Designed an app for Deutsche Bahn that allows customers to access a cashier-less store located in train stations and pay for their purchased items automatically through their smartphones.
- Created an app for Deutsche Bahn that allows users to book a bike repair service at the train station while commuting to work.
- Provided an app that allows users to schedule and store multiple COVID-19 tests to attend social events during COVID-19 times.
- Offered UI style guides for all the different digital products, including colors, typography, icons, and UI elements used in the products.
Technologies: Sketch, Zeplin, UX Design, UI Design, UI Branding, Landing Pages, Web UI, Web UX, Web Design, UI Components, Interactive Prototypes
UI and UX Designer
2020 - 2022
Baumeister Rosing Rechtsanwälte
- Created a product user journey map to help share a global vision of the product with the entire team based on user personas.
- Redesigned the legal software used daily by lawyers to help them manage their law cases digitally and in one place.
- Designed a UI style guide, including colors, typography, icons, and UI elements to be used across the platform and help maintain a consistent design language.
- Conducted user interviews and usability testing on new redesign solution to ensure it had improved user's work experience and iterated on gathered feedback.
- Redesigned the law firm and legal tech website based on the new product brand design, including the logo design.
Technologies: Sketch, Zeplin, Marvel, Jira, Adobe Photoshop, Teams, UX Design, UI Design, User Research, Usability Testing, UI Branding, Landing Pages, Web UI, Web UX, Web Design, SaaS Design, UI Components, Interactive Prototypes, SaaS, Productivity
UI and UX Designer
2018 - 2022
Freelance Clients
- Created the wireframes for a mobile app to help patients with kidney failure monitor their home treatments for an American multinational healthcare company.
- Designed the wireframes, UI design, and visual branding for a mobile app to help the younger generation engage and make financial savings.
- Developed the wireframes, UI design, visual branding, logo design, and website design for a mobile news app targeted to a younger generation.
- Organized the wireframes and UI design for a tablet app that helps elders with memory loss to manage their daily tasks.
- Provided a micro detailed life poster in years and a website where users could create and order posters online to inspire them to enjoy life or as novelty gifts for a particular person.
- Presented the UI design for a mobile app that allowed job applicants to apply for jobs with a personal video application.
- Planned the branding, website design, and marketing visual content for a developer freelance's berlin network.
- Managed the UI design for a tablet app that offered digital and interactive stories for children.
Technologies: Sketch, Figma, Zeplin, Marvel App, Landing Pages, Web UI, Web UX, Web Design, UI Components, Interactive Prototypes
UI and UX Designer
2017 - 2019
Hi Voicemail App
- Redesigned a mobile app that allows users to access their voicemails in one place and create personal greetings when unavailable.
- Created the product brand design, including the logo, product mascot, and UI style guide.
- Designed the product website, email template, and marketing visual materials.
Technologies: Sketch, Marvel App, Landing Pages, Web UI, Web UX, Web Design, UI Components, Interactive Prototypes, Productivity
UI and UX Designer
2014 - 2017
Softgarden E-recruiting GmbH
- Redesigned a complex recruiting software web app that allows users to manage hundreds of applications for their job openings in one place.
- Conducted user interviews and created three personas and a user journey map to improve the whole product user experience.
- Created and maintained a UI style guide to ensure a consistent design language was used throughout the product.
- Designed visual content for marketing and sales purposes.
- Developed wireframes and the final UI design for new functionality as the product progressed.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, UXPin, Jira, Marvel App, SaaS Design, UI Components, SaaS
Junior UI Designer
2012 - 2013
Near Interaction
- Designed an app for children to make their bed routine more enjoyable while helping parents with the task through bright stickers placed in the child's bedroom to connect with the app.
- Developed the main character as the child's best digital friend, including different facial expressions, clothes, and objects that the child could use to customize the character.
- Created a visual game for an airline to be part of a showroom in Paris. The competition included an interactive quiz and visual puzzles on basic knowledge about the different types of airplanes the airline offered.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, UI Components
Education
2021 - 2022
Certificate in UX Design
UX Design Institute - Remote
2009 - 2012
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic and Multimedia Design
Escola Superior de Artes e Design - Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
2006 - 2009
Foundation Course in Graphic Design
Escola Tecnológica Artística e Profissional - Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
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