About
Ten years between the design file and the pull request, for product teams who would rather not lose a week to the gap.
Now
Independent, Lisbon
Before
Kettlebank, Portolan, Field Notes Lab
Booking
From March 2027
Experience
2022–now
Independent design engineer
Okafor Studio
Lisbon
2019–2022
Senior design engineer
Kettlebank
Lisbon
2017–2019
Design engineer
Portolan
Porto
2016–2017
Product designer
Field Notes Lab
Porto
Process
Where the handoffs would be, there is a hyphen. Three of them, from brief to product.
Services
Four ways to work together, each with a price you can plan around.
Kind words
“Maren closed the gap we kept losing a sprint to. The build matched the design because the same person was holding both.”
Inês Carvalhal
Head of product, Saltline
“She asked what the button did while it was loading. Nobody else had asked. That was the first week.”
Tobias Renner
Engineering lead, Kettlebank
“Our component library has a changelog now, and people read it.”
Aiko Brandt
Design director, Portolan
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