Martina Pérez
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since May 7, 2020
As a product designer, Martina crafts end-to-end user experiences with a focus on interaction design and how user research can transform the way you approach problems. She has over 10 years of experience designing for native mobile apps and responsive web while working on cross-functional teams with engineers, product managers, and other designers in a variety of industries. Martina has a special interest in new technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and voice-user interfaces.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Staff Product Designer
Hotjar
- Led the product design in the Ask group with product, engineering, and content design. Mentored three designers on the craft and participated in recruiting.
- Conducted 50+ research studies, achieving a usability score of 5.5 or higher, leading to a 20% increase in survey completion. Sharpened the product strategy, elevating user engagement by 10%.
- Released the Al report and survey generator with a 10% adoption.
- Revamped the survey widgets. Created the design system library for the new surveys with a response rate increase of 400%.
- Elevated the usability score by 20 points with the definition of a usability framework implemented by the five company tribes.
- Generated 10+ Miro templates for asynchronous collaboration, which elevated the engineers' satisfaction to 90/100 points.
Interaction Design Teacher
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
- Trained 130+ students in interaction design, part of the design bachelor's degree at the Open University of Catalonia.
- Taught quantitative and qualitative research, journey mapping, personas, user testing, and prototyping.
- Got a 96/100 score in responsiveness, expert knowledge, motivation, and clarity.
Principal Product Designer
Moonpig
- Simplified the user experience within a card-first eCommerce, ran research, and defined the product strategy with product, engineers, and data scientists, resulting in a 32% boost in card upsell.
- Spearheaded product strategy design to optimize card algorithms that boosted the gifts attachment by 7%, resulting in a 6% increase in the product page conversion and more card discoverability with new IA.
- Facilitated ideation workshops with multidisciplinary teams and iterated designs based on user testing results and A/B testing. Mentored six designers in interaction design and data analysis.
UX Designer
Marhub
- Defined the user flow to increase the quality and quantity of trustworthy information that refugees receive through the chatbot when they decide to move to a new country.
- Created the template used to gather users' information in order to improve and speed up the feedback process.
- Collaborated with the founder, a product manager, and two business analysts.
Product Design Lead
Zone
- Created an MVP for a web platform that allows travel agents to make changes to flight bookings on behalf of their clients.
- Collaborated with a project manager, business analyst, visual designer, and the design director for the project.
- Planned and conducted user research through face-to-face and remote user interviews and user testing sessions.
- Contributed to an accelerator after design sprints to create design solutions for testing.
- Prioritized user stories based on insights gathered during user research.
- Created a backlog based on the insights gathered during user research and testing to hand off to the development team.
Product Designer
Chatty
- Designed a mobile app that allows people to listen and reply to their instant messages aloud.
- Doubled the number of users who complete the setup process from 35% to 70%.
- Analyzed logs and user behaviors to understand why 65% of users abandoned the app.
- Created a chat assistant to help users set up the app. This included tone of voice, messages, and UI design.
Product Design Lead
Schibsted
- Designed a web platform that uses predictive modeling to reach people. The platform allows the company's internal users to create audience segments based on different targeting criteria.
- Conducted user research and iterated designs using methodologies such as card sorting, surveys, face-to-face user testing, and user interviews.
- Led workshops with stakeholders to prioritize work before handing it off to the development team.
- Collaborated with product managers to plan the strategy and roadmap based on business goals.
- Refined tiny interaction design details in order to display all the necessary content to enable users to create audience segments. The content came from six countries and more than 40 marketplaces and media websites.
- Participated in a cross-functional team with back-end developers, front-end developers, data scientists, and product managers.
- Built multiple concepts and prototypes to use in user testing sessions, solicit feedback in design critique sessions, and validate them with stakeholders.
- Worked in an agile environment with daily stand-ups.
UX/UI Designer
Self-employed
- Created designs and built 15+ mobile apps, responsive websites, and interactive experiences.
- Ideated a VUI Android mobile app for instant messages with a 70% boost in activation as a result of a new onboarding experience.
- Designed branding materials for tech companies. Was honored with an award for 3D models showcased in animation shorts.
UX Lead
Gigigo
- Designed a smart marketing web platform that allows SMEs to create campaigns to be launched by triggers such as geofences, beacons, barcodes, and QR codes.
- Collaborated with a cross-functional team of product managers, business people, engineers, and other designers.
- Managed a team of three UX designers and coordinated with the UI lead.
- Led user research for a mobile app that allows people to get a second screen with extra content while they are watching a movie.
- Iterated designs and created new wireframes based on the insights gathered in user testing sessions.
- Led a web platform project for Coca-Cola. The platform allows internal users to create landing pages and launch marketing campaigns in a quick and effortless way.
- Introduced new digital tools, mentored and trained designers to upskill the team, and improved the team's efficiency.
Senior Product Designer
bq Music Service
- Designed a music service for iOS and Android native mobile apps and responsive web.
- Increased user retention to 70% when comparing the alpha and beta releases.
- Collaborated on a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, a user researcher, and a visual designer.
UI Designer
Disashop
- Designed the corporate website, interactive banners for clients such as Vodafone and Orange, and newsletters using HTML and CSS.
- Redesigned a web application that allows users to top up their mobile phones in multimedia kiosks.
- Created style guides to hand off to the development team.
- Designed the company's eCommerce to be implemented in the Magento platform.
Web Designer
Cambur
- Crafted digital experiences for fashion and entertainment sectors.
- Designed an interactive fitting room to help users try their clothes without touching them in an eCommerce context using Flash and ActionScript.
- Designed branding materials such as brochures and marketing banners.
Web Designer
CIP Consultores
- Developed three websites for luxury restaurant companies, utilizing ActionScript and Flash to craft engaging interactive experiences.
- Photographed the restaurant menu dishes and the wedding and corporate event venues.
- Designed branding collateral such as brochures and marketing banners.
Education
Master's Degree in UX Design
Open University of Catalonia - Online
Master's Degree in Programming Digital Arts
Pompeu Fabra University - Online
Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Communication
University of A Coruña - Coruña, Spain
Certifications
AI Foundations for Everyone
IBM
Introduction to Data Science Specialization
IBM
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
Interaction Design Specialization
University of San Diego
Skills
Tools
Miro, Google Forms, Hotjar, Figma, Sketch, Lookback, Marvel App, Jira, Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC, Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, UsabilityHub, Google Analytics, Zeplin, Google Sheets, Framer X, Usertesting.com, Flash, Tableau, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Flash Pro
Industry Expertise
Consumer Products, Information Technology, Advertising, Marketing, Retail & Wholesale, Creative Tech, Sales & Marketing
Platforms
Web, Mobile, Mixpanel, Music Streaming, Lyssna, Axure, Magento, Firebase, Google Ads, iOS, Android
Languages
CSS, HTML, Flash ActionScript, R, SQL, Python, JavaScript, ActionScript 3, PHP
Other
Mobile UI, Mobile Design, UI Design, UX Design, Web App Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Agile, Agile Sprints, Customer Journeys, Presentations, User Journeys, Low-fidelity Prototypes, High-fidelity Prototypes, Interactive Prototypes, Iterative Design, Journey Mapping, User-centered Design (UCD), User Interviews, Wireframing, Rapid Prototyping, Mind Maps, B2B, UI Components, User Testing, B2C, Redesign, Website Redesign, Communication, Responsive Design, Component Libraries, Landing Pages, Interaction Design (IxD), User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), User Flows, Prototyping, Product Design, UX Strategy, User Research, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Usability, Lean UX, Research, UX Wireframes, Design, Product Strategy, Usability Testing, Stakeholder Management, Design Leadership, Discovery, Mockups, MVP Design, UX Research, Software as a Service (SaaS), SaaS, SaaS Design, Conversion Rate, eCommerce, Design Workshops, iOS App Design, Optimal Workshop, Design Libraries, Marketing Platforms, Information Architecture (IA), Mobile App Design, Landing Page Design, Android App Design, Quantitative User Research, User Onboarding, Motion Design, Chatbots, Metrics, Conversational Interfaces, Personas, User Scenarios, Voice User Interfaces (VUI), Visual Design, Design Systems, A/B Testing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Service Design, Design Thinking, Mobile Applications, Storytelling, Brand Design, Conversational UX, Midjourney, OpenAI, Style Guides, Microinteractions, Data Visualization, Marketing Technology (MarTech), User Personas, Dashboard Design, Enterprise SaaS, UI Style Guides, Design Sprints, Proximity Marketing, Image Recognition, Proximity Technology, Bluetooth Beacons, Tablet Design, Data Analysis, Data Science, 3D Modeling, Video Scripts, Branding, Icon Design, Animation, Graphic Design, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Marketing Design, Dashboards, Guidelines, Mobile Apps, Logo Design, Content Management Systems (CMS)
Experience
- User Interface (UI) - 14 years
- User Flows - 14 years
- Product Design - 10 years
- Interaction Design (IxD) - 10 years
- User Research - 10 years
- User Experience (UX) - 10 years
- Figma - 10 years
- Prototyping - 10 years
Tools
- Figma
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