Luana Favetta Groppo
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Luana is an award-winner and passionate designer with more than ten years of professional experience. She has worked for big companies such as Philips to startups such as Mercado Bitcoin. She is known for her detailed design and holistic mapping of products and services. Luana has experience in the following industries: telecom, healthcare, fintech, and blockchain. She is focused on usability and suppots improvement in engineering workflows by reducing about 60% of hours spent on reports.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Design Manager
Sympla
- Managed juniors and highly skilled product designers.
- Guaranteed holistic products and service good experience.
- Oversaw and supported the creation of OKRs and KPIs for the design team.
Design Manager
Mercado Bitcoin
- Mapped all team hard skills and understood the overall team maturity toward UX vision goals.
- Built a UX vision statement to connect with other strategies and leadership actions.
- Designed a career development tool in Notion. Received constant bi-weekly one-on-one meetings with all team members practicing proactive leadership.
Senior Product Designer
Mercado Bitcoin
- Analyzed Mercado Bitcoin's ecosystem user journeys in order to suggest gamification actions and create a new gamified experience.
- Built a modular and scalable user's player area. Supported engagement, communication, and interaction between product and marketing with clients.
- Created engagement cards in the first logged home of the product. Communicated new feature launches with users and improved product engagement.
Senior Product Designer
Venturus
- Planned and executed end-to-end design, including strategy.
- Defined and prioritized user stories based on a decision matrix.
- Validated ideas, prototypes, and interactions with customers and users.
UX Lead
Philips
- Migrated a radiology workspace solution to a new design language system. Planned sprints, tasks, and distributed tasks accordingly to the design team.
- Managed global meetings with teams from multiple countries to ensure consistency in design and understanding of requirements.
- Built a worklist module for Philip's design language system. Focused on UX research and validation, ensuring the module experience is similar across projects from different business units.
UX Designer
Philips
- Designed end-to-end products with a focus on a backlog strategy.
- Led a local internal content-sharing community. Planned and delivered presentations and workshops on the following topics: AR/VR, empathy in design, data-driven design, designing for the senses, and UX/UI built by AI.
- Facilitated meetings with the design and business teams.
- Executed and validated product features with users.
UX Specialist
Encora
- Turned research insights into user requirements. Filled the backlog list with them.
- Created personas in user research phases to continue delivering user-centered design.
- Turned insights into ideas. Prototyped in low to medium fidelity.
- Validated prototypes with users and customers internationally.
UI/UX Designer
Venturus
- Designed three big products for international clients.
- Traveled several times to collect requirements in the field. Applied user research methods.
- Delivered design specifications and demonstrated results to clients over demo sessions.
Web Designer Trainee
Compal
- Created a tablet app to showcase a product at the CES trade show.
- Designed together with other trainees a class tablet app for a Brazilian university.
- Reviewed the usability of mobile and game apps. Tested them with users.
- Designed 3D components for a 3D soccer game made by Android, iOS, and Windows platforms.
Education
Master’s Degree in Innovation Management
Estácio de Sa University - Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazail
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design
FACAMP - Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Certifications
Gamification Design Expert
Octalysis Prime
Design Thinking: The Ultimate Guide
Interaction Design Foundation
Become a UX Designer from Scratch
Interaction Design Foundation
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