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Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Location
Palma, Spain
Toptal Member Since
March 21, 2019
A digital designer with multiple years of experience, Virginia is focused on UX, particularly in the areas of research, design, and strategy. Her professional career includes both startups and large companies, spanning development of early products and concepts as well as existing products and their interactions. Virginia is passionate about identifying problems and transforming them into intuitive interfaces.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Digital Product Design | UX Strategy Consultant
2016 - PRESENT
Freelance Work
- Helped build diverse digital products, from early concepts and MVPs to mature products, new features, and their interactions.
- Worked on all aspects of the UX-design process: ideation, strategy, research, low fidelity architecture, and final UI.
- Provided UX audits, stakeholder workshops, customer journey mapping, user journey, competitor analysis, guerrilla research, user personas, user testing validation, etc.
- Collaborated with large corporations in the technology space and with non-governmental environmental organizations like Greenpeace.
- Helped over seven startups, both B2C and B2B, including BoB.io, Consentio, and Essentialist.com.
Technologies: MURAL, Miro, Confluence, Jira, Asana, Trello, Business Processes, Slack, Zoom, Hotjar, Google Drive, Adobe Photoshop, Figma, Sketch, Mobile UX, Mobile UI, Mobile Design, Mobile Mockups, Design Strategy, UI Design, Responsive Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Mobile UI Design, Web Design, Training, Visual Design, Education, User Experience (UX), Web App UI, Rapid Prototyping
UX Expert for Business Analysis and MVP
2019 - 2020
Toptal Client
- Led UX research for a top tech company. Our goal was to determine how to improve part of their work process.
- Conducted user research and interviews with C-level stakeholders and employees to identify the team’s needs and pain points.
- Mentored and analyzed a discovery workshop with stakeholders to map their workflow, understand their personas, and identify their jobs to be done.
- Supported the engineering team to build the proof of concept through interactive prototypes and implementation reviews.
- Ran a co-creation workshop with the team to define user flows and to discover alternative solutions for the proof of concept mentioned above.
- Performed other tasks and used different methods to complete the discovery project, namely benchmarking, personas, and the value proposition canvas.
Technologies: Google Drive, Business Processes, Confluence, Sketch, Miro, UX Design, Workshops
Head of Digital User Experience
2016 - 2020
Scifabric
- Built crowdsourcing projects from scratch to solve complex tasks for different purposes. Conducted the ideation, stakeholders interviews, and user validation and managed the IA, prototyping, and final UI for all the below-mentioned projects.
- Generated a color map of artificial light for The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO).
- Created awareness about solar energy through Greenpeace’s campaign.
- Gathered clinical consensus on heart disease research with Radcliffe.
- Designed a mobile-first platform for disaster risk reduction.
Technologies: User Flows, UX Design, User Interface (UI), Hotjar, MURAL, Zeplin, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Marvel App, Sketch, UI Design, Mobile UI
Digital Product Designer | UX Designer
2013 - 2016
vzaar
- Created engaging and delightful product-design solutions across the vzaar product line.
- Managed the redesign of a marketing site, which included conceptualization, information architecture, and user interface design.
- Designed new platform features, such as video management.
- Designed solutions focused on conversion optimization and marketing campaigns.
- Implemented UX methodologies in the company's workflow, which kept users at the center of the design process (benchmarking, stakeholder interviews, user research, and prototypes).
- Developed product front-ends, using HTML, CSS, and Sass.
- Followed object-oriented programming principles and implemented a Bourbon framework.
Technologies: User Flows, UX Design, User Interface (UI), Bourbon, Sass, CSS, HTML, Hotjar, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Marvel App, Sketch, Leadership, Usability Testing
UI/UX Designer | Product Designer | Front-end Developer
2010 - 2013
Educaedu
- Contributed to the overall product strategy through concept generation focusing on innovation, usability, and monetization goals.
- Managed the project and product development from conceptualization to the final UI.
- Oversaw the hiring process to increase the team as design manager.
Technologies: User Flows, UX Design, User Interface (UI), CSS, HTML, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Leadership
Education
2000 - 2005
Bachelor's Degree in Advertising and Public Relations
Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Certifications
MARCH 2021 - PRESENT
Design Thinker
DesignThinkers Academy
JULY 2018 - PRESENT
Usability24/7 Accredited Practitioner
UX24/7
JUNE 2016 - PRESENT
User Experience Design
General Assembly London
AUGUST 2015 - PRESENT
Data Driven Design
La Nave Nodriza