Resume

Viana do Castelo, Portugal

contact@andreaalopes.com

+351 926 359 197

Summary

With over 9 years of design experience, I'm a Product Designer specialized in UX and UI. I’ve worked end-to-end on products used by millions of users, including leading companies such as Zscaler, Uphold, Capitalise, i-Charging, Staples, Revigrés, and Cotec, in B2C, B2B and B2B2C.

My background spans diverse settings, including co-founding my design agency and securing an entrepreneurship grant as a designer in a successful startup.

Professional experience

Product Designer

Nagarro

Jul 2024 - Present

Spearheaded the scaling of Nimbus (Zscaler’s Design System), establishing governance patterns and accessibility standards to be used by hundreds of developers and more than 20 designers.

As a member of a Nagarro’s Center of Excellence, the Global Design Studio, I also support the Sales team preparing proposals for project’s applications and prospects.

Jul 2024 - Present

Product Design Consultant

Uphold

Mar 2022 - Jul 2024

Led end-to-end product design for Topper, a fiat-to-crypto on-ramp that generated $1M in revenue within the first 9 months;

Designed onboarding, transaction flows, and payment experiences that simplified crypto purchases for new users;

Collaborated closely with product, engineering, and compliance teams to balance security, regulatory constraints, and usability;

Established several Design workflows, streamlining the entire process between Design, Development and QA, allowing full scalability for the team to grow and speeding up the wireframe-to-live time of new features.

Mar 2022 - Jul 2024

Product Designer

Untile

Oct 2020 - Jul 2024

Conducted several initiatives that improved the design process and methodology within the team and the company, such as a Weekly Design Meeting, Critique Sessions, created an Internal Design Toolkit and a fully tokenized Headless Design System;

Being part of a small team, I also became proficient in several subjects of UX and UI, such as User Research, User Testing, UX Writing, User Journey Mapping, Wireframing, Hi-fi Prototyping, Typography, Iconography, and Animation;

Collaborated with more than 25 companies, including Uphold, Capitalise, i-Charging, Staples, Revigrés, Cotec and many others.

Oct 2020 - Jul 2024

Co-Founder and Designer

PICUS

Jan 2013 - Feb 2016

Co-led and grew a company through an economic recession, scaling our projects from a few and small local businesses to international projects;

Learned how to manage day-to-day unforeseen challenges, as well as a team of 8;

Forged strong client relationships, and managed projects and finances as a co-founder.

Jan 2013 - Feb 2016

Product Designer

Sioslife

Oct 2012 - Jan 2014

Played a pivotal role in the company's early development, securing an entrepreneurship grant as part of a dynamic 3-member team;

Had my first contact with User Interviews, UX Research and User Testing with very specific target groups;

Responsible for everything related to design, from Prototyping and Testing, to Branding elements and the Website.

Oct 2012 - Jan 2014

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Product Design

Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo

Sep 2009 - Jul 2012

Courses

Design Systems: Scale implementation

The Starter

Mar 2024

AI for Designers (Distinction: Top 10% in Class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Jan 2024

Digital Accessibility Foundations

Lisbon Digital School

Nov 2023

Workshop UX Research

EDIT. - Disruptive Digital Education

Nov 2023

Mobile UI Design (Distinction: Top 10% in class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Aug 2023

Visual Design: The Ultimate Guide (Distinction: Top 10% in class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Jul 2023

Workshop Visual Design

EDIT. - Disruptive Digital Education

Jun 2023

Conducting Usability Testing (Distinction: Top 10% in class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Jun 2023

Workshop UX Writing Foundations

EDIT. - Disruptive Digital Education

May 2023

Mobile User Experience (UX) Design (Distinction: Top 10% in Class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Dec 2022

How to Communicate with Typography

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Apr 2022

UX Writing: How To Use Words As A Design Power Tool

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Mar 2022

21st Century Design with Don Norman

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Feb 2022

Psychology of Interaction Design: The Ultimate Guide (Distinction: Top 10% in Class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Dec 2021

Beyond Interfaces: The UI Design Skills You Need to Know

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Nov 2021

User Experience: The Beginner’s Guide (Distinction: Top 10% in Class)

Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Mar 2021

Visual Elements of User Interface Design

Coursera

Sep 2020

Additional information

Languages

Portuguese (Native)

English (Native)

Spanish (Intermediate)

French (Basic)

Japanese (Basic)

Hobbies

Cooking & Baking

Triathlon

Star Wars Lego Collection

Guitar and Bass

Interests

Psychology

Chess

Web3