Olá!
Nice to meet you.
Carla, Portuguese Designer, thanks for visiting!
I’m currently working at Farfetch - a luxury marketplace where I design back-office tools to allow internal teams and partners to run their businesses efficiently.
Being part of projects where I can help through research and design is what gets me pumped every day!
As an end-to-end designer, I love to tackle challenges and transform user pains into valuable experiences that will transform their reality for the best.
I have a secret love for DesignOps and I try to apply it's values on my daily work.
Some curiosities about me:
🌋 Adventurous person
🗺️ Love traveling
🏡 Super passionate about Interior Design
📄 Regular article reader
❤️ Assiduous volunteer
🎤 Always singing
🏃 I was a semi-professional athlete for 10 years
🐿️ Completely crazy for squirrels
🚕 When I was a child I wanted to be a Taxi Driver
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK WITH ME?
🤓 I'm very curious and like to ask questions
I enjoy working on end-to-end products, so I need to understand the problem and the user/business needs very well! In order to achieve that I do a lot of research and ask a lot of questions to different people till I gather everything I need to start the creative process.
🌍 I thrive when I collaborate with others
I love to work with intelligent and driven individuals who value teamwork and that are able to support each other. I tend to organize brainstorming sessions and regular meetings with devs and PMs in order to get their opinions and suggestions because I believe that when we work in a collaborative environment the results are significantly better.
🔮 I apply strategic thinking throught my projects
When a project is given to me I try to envision future scenarios and opportunities to prevent user frustrations or interface blockers.
🤍 I care deeply about other people
In my daily interactions with people I try to be helpful and caring. I always bring a smile with me to try to create a healthy and fun working environment.
TESTIMONIALS
Carla is one of the kindest and most talented person I’ve worked with.
Her collaborative mindset and deep care for others are well-balanced with a responsible and innovative approach to design problems. Her work reflected this: she contributed to finding, understanding and giving solutions to both business and team problems. I participated in her Documentation Guild (a team project she proposed to solve a problem, and then created and managed) since day 1 and it was organised, focused and always collaborative, trying to involve stakeholders and even reach other teams that could benefit from this work; she contributed as a designer to our team, and I took much inspiration on her process (that she always tried to find ways to improve) but especially in her ability to keep an open conversation about the problem she had to solve, asking for feedback and communicating effectively.
I’ve told this to her multiple times, she is a natural leader. I hope I can work with her again in the future.
Maria Meireles - UX Designer at Arkadium
I had the privilege of working alongside Carla for two years at Alcuris, where her UX/UI design expertise proved invaluable.
She is very kind and Carla's keen attention to detail and ability to work with various technologies consistently delievered great results.
She has a genuine talent for designing user friendly interfaces and revamping brands.
She goes the extra mile to create outstanding designs and is a pleasure to collaborate with. I highly reccomend for her exceptional design skills (also coffe making skills :p) and dedication.
Ibrahim Meman - Senior App Engineer at The Access Group