Skills
Design
UX Design
Visual Design
Industrial Design
Interaction Design
Product Design
Branding
Illustration
Personas
User Flows
Journey Mapping
Storyboarding
Heuristic Evaluation
Rapid Prototyping
Wireframes
Data Visualization
Web/ iOS/ Android
Human-Centered Design
Design Thinking
Development:
Basic HTML/CSS
Awards
Finalist at Stanford Design Challenge
Stanford University - California 2019
Winner in a National App Contest
Justice Ministry - Brazil 2016
Finalist in a Furniture National Contest
Micasa - Brazil 2009
Research
User Interviews
Usability
Testing
QA
Other Skills:
3D Modeling
Lean Methods
Prototyping:
Sketch
Invision
Figma
Adobe XD
Zeplin
Toolkit
Adobe Suite:
Illustrator
Photoshop
After Effects
InDesign
Publications
Social innovation and design: Case study
of “Freguesia do Livro”
5th Paranaense Symposium on Sustainable
Design 2014
Experience
Product, UX/UI Designer
Dadosjusbr.org - Brazil (Remote) Apr 2020 - Present
• Improve responsive open-source website UX/UI on a team of 9 to facilitate open data visualization for millions of Reais (Brazilian currency) in government expenses.
• Utilize Figma to develop a style guide and screens, icons, and branding for the Beta version and to create first prototypes for developers.
• Use Zeplin to communicate with developers as well as create issues in GitHub.
• Mentor a front-end intern to develop an interactive feature to the website based on stakeholders’ feedback.
UX/UI Designer
Mercadinho.org - Brazil (Remote) Apr 2020 - May 2020
• Collaborated with 100 plus teammates including engineering students, designers, and developers to design a responsive e-commerce website supporting 52 small businesses during COVID-19.
• Utilized Sketch to create a website prototype (6 wireframes) and used Zeplin to communicate with developers.
• Increased sales for business owners based on customer acquisition feedback. UX/UI Intern
San Francisco State University - San Francisco Aug 2019 - Present
• Participated in human-centered design research to develop a product that prevents common mistakes when giving medication to children.
• Conducted user research and created personas to understand the challenge of dosing and to determine a solution to prevent common mistakes.
• Use Figma to develop wireframes and a high-fidelity digital book prototype providing support to child caregivers who medicate children; utilized Adobe Illustrator to create a hardback version.
• Develop an MVP to entertain children while dosing medication. Product Designer
Distributed Systems Laboratory - Brazil Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
• Collaborated as sole designer on a cross-functional team of 5 to develop an Android app, including branding, 30 screens, and more than 35 icons, for cities to track suspicious spending. The app was downloaded 5000+ times.
• Developed a crowdsource research web platform.
• Contributed to a responsive innovative sign language dictionary app using agile methodology.
Industrial Designer
Laboremus agricultural machinery - Brazil Sep 2012 - Mar 2014
• Contributed to the automatization strategy of this 80+ years old factory, which lead to 100% increase in sales in the second year.
• Mapped and cataloged the parts of the products made in the factory using digital 3D modeling program.
• Improved and redesigned parts of the products to achieve simpler production processes and component reuse.
• Created assembling guides to enhance the factory worker’s understanding and experience while building the products.
Education
Master of Arts in Design
San Francisco State University -
San Francisco Dec 2019
Major in Industrial Design
Federal University of Campina Grande -
Brazil Dec 2011
Mariana Souto
marianasouto.me
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Brazilian Industrial Designer turned Product
Designer with nearly a decade of experience
using empathy to design delightful and
engaging experiences.