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Designer
Lisbon, Portugal
Toptal member since March 21, 2022
Bio
Susanne is a digital product designer with extensive experience in product design, lean UX, interactive media, user experience design, and front-end development. With a professional obsession for outstanding design, extraordinary attention to detail, and assertive communication skills, Susanne has a strong creative and imaginative flair, as well as a rational understanding of the commercial product, directorial decisions, and tight deadlines.
Experience
- CSS4 - 8 years
- User Experience (UX) - 8 years
- HTML5 - 8 years
- Product Design - 8 years
- UX Research - 7 years
- Interactive Prototypes - 6 years
- Responsive Web Design (RWD) - 4 years
- Microinteraction Design - 4 years
Portfolio
Dreamquark | AI Technology
Product DesignMicrointeraction DesignResponsive Web Design (RWD)User Experience (UX)User Interface (UI)Interactive Prototypes+ 9 more
Nottingham Trent University | Architecture Student Showcase
Product DesignUser Experience (UX)User Interface (UI)Presentation DesignMicrointeraction DesignResponsive Web Design (RWD)+ 17 more
Kestor | Career Mode Add-on for Flight Simulator
User Experience (UX)UX DesignGame DesignUsability HeuristicsTask AnalysisInformation Architecture (IA)+ 7 more
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Open Book
Landing Page DesignLanding Page OptimizationUX AuditsResponsive Web Design (RWD)Higher EducationMobile UI Design+ 3 more
Work Experience
Product Designer
2025 - 2026
Fan Flo Nation LLC
- Architected the full brand identity from zero in direct collaboration with the CEO, establishing the visual language, tone, and design principles that defined the product's positioning in a competitive social media landscape.
- Led end-to-end UX across research, user flows, and journey mapping, translating findings into high-fidelity interactive Figma Make prototypes used to communicate the product vision in active investor pitches.
- Produced comprehensive design system documentation and component library in close collaboration with the development team, providing a single source of truth that aligned design and engineering throughout the product build.
Technologies: Product Design, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Visual Design, Figma, Audits, Web App UX, Mobile UI Design, No-code Development, Design Sprints, Onboarding, Consumer-facing Product Design
Senior Product Design Consultant
2025 - 2025
Healiom
- Built a healthcare design system from the ground up, delivering 1,200+ components with Tailwind CSS token architecture, enabling design-to-development handoff at scale across a cross-functional engineering team.
- Defined and executed end-to-end brand identity for the product in close collaboration with the CTO, establishing visual language, typography, and color systems that unified the product across all touchpoints.
- Shipped a consumer-facing nutritional tracking app in partnership with a fellow designer and engineering team, driving measurable UX improvements across core user flows from intake to daily tracking.
Technologies: Figma, Claude, Audits, Healthcare Services, Web Applications, No-code Development, Agile, Design Sprints, Agile UX
UI Designer
2022 - 2025
Ivy Clinicians, Inc.
- Designed a better onboarding experience for clinicians to increase the chances of filling out the information needed to get them successfully hired.
- Worked with the marketing team to create clinician-targeted ads for Ivy's social media channels to increase their reach.
- Redesigned the website to have a more minimal, clean, and straightforward UX experience.
Technologies: Websites, Landing Page Design, UI Design, Figma, Web Design, Mobile Design, Design Systems, Information Architecture (IA), UX Strategy, Branding, Email Design, Shopify, PDF, Mobile App Design, User Interface (UI), MVP Design, Mobile Applications, UX Prototyping, UX Wireframes, User Experience Design, Healthcare, B2B, Web App Design, SaaS, SaaS Design, Consumer Research, Dashboard Design, Mobile UX Design, Mobile, Mobile App UI, Mobile Apps, Mobile UI, User Experience Strategy, Mobile App Testing, High-fidelity Wireframes, High-fidelity Mockups, Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Business to Consumer (B2C), Consumer Applications, Wellness, Health & Wellness, Usability Testing, Dashboards, Data Visualization, Audits, Healthcare Services, Product Development, Web App UX, Mobile UI Design, Web Applications, Enterprise Software, Design Sprints, Agile UX, Onboarding, Discovery, Consumer-facing Product Design
Product Design Consultant
2021 - 2022
Lantum
- Designed and launched a product to manage medical leaves, which enabled National Health Service (NHS) doctors in secondary care to significantly improve their workload management.
- Conducted extensive user testing every month with the Lantum Digital Fellows, a group of junior doctors.
- Collaborated with doctors and senior-level stakeholders to set requirements and timeframes and plan feature roadmaps.
- Worked in a high-paced Agile environment with a multidisciplinary team of developers, product, and marketing professionals.
- Improved and built upon the existing brand identity components like colors, typography, icons, spacing, grids, form elements, and other assets.
- Created a sophisticated rolling rota software feature to increase rota creation efficiency.
- Designed creative concepts for digital marketing campaigns across mobile and web.
Technologies: Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Healthcare Services, Digital Product Design, Ideation, User Research, User Testing, Remote User Testing, UI Audits, Web App Design, iOS UI Design, Mobile UX, Wireframing, iOS, iOS App Design, Prototyping, User Personas, Personas, User Stories, Mobile Design, Design Systems, Web Design, UX Strategy, Branding, PDF, Mobile App Design, UI Design, User Interface (UI), MVP Design, Mobile Applications, Android App Design, UX Prototyping, UX Wireframes, User Experience Design, Healthcare, B2B, SaaS, SaaS Design, Consumer Research, Gamification, Dashboard Design, Mobile UX Design, Mobile, Mobile App UI, Mobile Apps, Mobile UI, User Experience Strategy, Mobile App Testing, High-fidelity Wireframes, High-fidelity Mockups, Business to Consumer (B2C), Consumer Applications, Wellness, Health & Wellness, Usability Testing, Dashboards, Journey Mapping, Miro, Web App UX, Mobile UI Design, Web Applications, Enterprise Software, Agile, Design Sprints, Agile UX, Onboarding, Discovery, Consumer-facing Product Design
Lead UX/UI Designer
2021 - 2021
Cognitive Battery
- Worked closely with marketing and product to develop a cognitive ability testing game for recruitment and career advice.
- Conducted heuristic usability analysis of the competition and existing products to unveil improvement potential.
- Gathered information from user interviews and stakeholders to plan and execute product roadmaps.
- Created high-fidelity prototypes and animations to guide developers through complex ideas and user flows.
- Designed the UI for the mobile app and had documented design decisions.
Technologies: Cognitive Psychology, Game Design, Educational Games, Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, UX Audits, UI Audits, iOS UI Design, Mobile UX, iOS, iOS App Design, Prototyping, Personas, User Stories, Design Leadership, Mobile Design, UX Strategy, Branding, Mobile App Design, User Interface (UI), Mobile Applications, User Experience Design, Gamification, Mobile UX Design, Mobile, Mobile App UI, Mobile UI, Business to Consumer (B2C), Health & Wellness, Usability Testing, Discovery
Lead UI Designer
2021 - 2021
Altar
- Implemented the look and feel of their new brand identity to their website.
- Designed high-fidelity prototypes and animations to guide developers through complicated user flows and ideas.
- Created handover documentation for the developers and monitored project development for implementation quality control.
- Designed the user flow, so the customer journey ends on an incentive to book a call.
Technologies: Figma, InVision, Startup Consulting, Web Consulting, Digital Product Design, User Interface (UI), UX Audits, Prototyping, User Personas, Personas, User Stories, Web Design, Branding, Landing Page Design, UI Design, User Experience Design, Web App Design, Business to Consumer (B2C), Consumer Applications, Discovery
Lead UX Designer
2020 - 2021
Kestor
- Played a key role while in charge of the UX design of an MVP for a career mode add-on of a flight simulator.
- Interviewed and analyzed user research to implement solutions for the features.
- Coordinated with product and game design to ensure high-quality standards.
- Led UX research, competitive audits, and heuristic user evaluations.
- Worked throughout the project with the development team to ensure that high-quality standards were met.
- Designed user testing prototypes based on persona research and analytics.
Technologies: Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe Illustrator, Game Design, Dashboard Design, Web Dashboards, Usability Heuristics, Heuristic Review, Information Architecture (IA), Sitemaps, UX Audits, UI Audits, Mobile UX, Wireframing, Prototyping, User Personas, User Stories, Design Leadership, UX Strategy, UI Design, User Interface (UI), UX Prototyping, User Experience Design, Gamification, Business to Consumer (B2C), Usability Testing, Design Systems, Data Visualization, Discovery
UX/UI Designer
2018 - 2021
Made Abroad
- Worked with clients across multiple industries like higher education, startup consulting, artificial intelligence, and eCommerce.
- Designed a website for an educational organization that boosted their traffic and engagement by 70% compared with their previous year.
- Created the new design of a tech startup website, which resulted in a 62% increase in downloaded resources.
- Redesigned an eCommerce experience raising the CSAT score by 79%.
Technologies: Figma, InVision, UX Design, Responsive Design, Higher Education, Startups, eCommerce, Annotated Wireframes, Artificial Intelligence (AI), UI Audits, Web App Design, iOS UI Design, iOS, iOS App Design, Prototyping, User Personas, Personas, User Stories, Mobile Design, Web Design, UX Strategy, Landing Page Design, Mobile App Design, UI Design, User Interface (UI), Mobile Applications, UX Prototyping, UX Wireframes, User Experience Design, Consumer Research, Mobile UX Design, Mobile, Mobile App UI, Mobile UI, Business to Consumer (B2C), Consumer Applications, Usability Testing, Design Systems, Journey Mapping, Discovery, Consumer-facing Product Design
Other Experience
Education
2015 - 2016
Master's Degree in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games
Berklee College of Music - Valencia, Spain
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Music Degree in Popular Music Performance
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance - London, UK
Certifications
JANUARY 2025 - PRESENT
Al For Designers Course
Interaction Design Foundation
JANUARY 2020 - PRESENT
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Google via Coursera
NOVEMBER 2019 - PRESENT
The Complete Web Developer Course 2.0
Udemy
Skills
Tools
Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Marvel, Miro, Claude
Platforms
Figma, iOS, Mobile, Webflow, Android, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Shopify
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Health & Wellness
Languages
HTML5, CSS4, JavaScript
Other
UX Design, User Experience (UX), UI Design, User Interface (UI), iOS UI Design, Mobile UX, Web Design, Prototyping, Design Systems, Usability Heuristics, Product Design, User Personas, Microinteraction Design, Interactive Prototypes, UX Research, User Onboarding, User Flows, Healthcare Services, Digital Product Design, User Research, Dashboard Design, Heuristic Review, B2B, Low-fidelity Mockups, Mockups, High-fidelity Mockups, High-fidelity Prototypes, UX Audits, UI Audits, Web App Design, Wireframing, iOS App Design, Personas, User Stories, Landing Page Design, Mobile Design, UX Strategy, Mobile App Design, MVP Design, Mobile Applications, UX Prototyping, UX Wireframes, User Experience Design, Dashboards, SaaS, SaaS Design, Consumer Research, Mobile UX Design, App UI, App UX, Mobile App UI, Mobile Apps, Mobile UI, User Experience Strategy, Mobile App Testing, High-fidelity Wireframes, Web App UX, Business to Consumer (B2C), Consumer Applications, Wellness, Usability Testing, Audits, Web Applications, Responsive UI, Design, Agile UX, Discovery, iOS UX Design, Mobile UI Design, Startups, Product Development, Higher Education, Information Architecture (IA), User Testing, Sitemaps, User Journeys, Design Leadership, Email Design, PDF, Android App Design, Gamification, Data Visualization, Journey Mapping, Enterprise Software, No-code Development, Agile, Design Sprints, Web App UI, Onboarding, Consumer-facing Product Design, Virtual Instrument Design, jQuery, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Responsive, Music Production, Game Design, Task Analysis, Annotated Wireframes, Educational Games, User Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Presentation Design, Branding, Style Guides, UI Style Guides, Typography, Ideation, Remote User Testing, Startup Consulting, Web Consulting, Web Dashboards, Responsive Design, eCommerce, Website Redesign, Health IT, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Management Systems, HR Tools, Workers, Websites, Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Visual Design, Landing Page Optimization, AI Design, AI-powered Product Design
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