Teresa Mateus Alves

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UX/UI Designer & UI Developer

I'm Teresa, a Web Designer from sunny Lisbon, Portugal.

Over the last 14 years, while helping businesses and users to meet their goals, I have gained an extensive understanding of the whole project life-cycle, being able to provide efficient solutions all the way, from UX Research & Design, to UI Design & Development (HTML/CSS).

As looking away from the screen from time to time is good for your eyes, I love gardening, in the balcony and indoors, where I keep too many plants while humans can still move around. Caring for plants gives me super-powers. I also enjoy pocket photography and exploration and puzzle video games.

Skills

  • Resilient and willing to learn new tools, workflows, disciplines and technologies
  • Methodic and organised designer, focused on scalability and documentation
  • Mentor of junior colleagues to help mature autonomy and share efficient work flows
  • Collaborative with BA & Dev teams to align requirements, solutions and feasibility checks
  • Effective communicator, both in Portuguese (native), and English (Professional proficiency)

UX Design

  • Research
  • User and functional flows
  • Wireframes
  • Low-fidelity Prototypes
  • User testing
  • Figma
  • Adobe XD

UI Design

  • Atomic design
  • Usability principles
  • High-fidelity Prototypes
  • Design System
  • User testing
  • Figma
  • Adobe XD

UI Development

  • Custom layout patterns
  • Context variables
  • Responsive solutions
  • HTML5 + CSS3/LESS/SCSS + jQuery
  • Bootstrap, INK, Jekyll
  • Liquid templating language
  • Git on command line

Continuing Education

As a self-taught professional, I believe learning can never stop on any technology based work. Unless evolution stops.

As evolution don't seem to be stopping any time soon, I seek all the knowledge necessary to deliver User Centered Design, based on the best practices available.

  • Interaction Design Foundation

    Human-Computer Interaction - HCI

  • Interaction Design Foundation

    Gamification - Creating Addictive User Experiences

  • Interaction Design Foundation

    Emotional Design - How to Make Products People Will Love

  • Interaction Design Foundation

    User Research - Methods and Best Practices

  • Flag Creativity, Design and Communication School

    Javascript basics

  • António Arroio Art School

    Communication Design

  • Fundetec Foundation with Rumus

    Computer Assisted Drawing and Desktop Publishing Applications

  • Afonso Domingues Industrial School

    Electronic and Digital Systems

Experience

  • European Patent Office · Full-time

    Lead UX/UI Designer consultant

    Since 2020

  • Mosca Digital · Freelance

    UX/UI Specialist contrator

    2019 - 2021

  • Talmix · Full time

    Senior UX/UI Designer + UI Developer

    2018 - 2020

  • EDP DSI · Full time

    Senior UX Designer + UI Developer

    2016 - 2018

  • World Bank Group · Freelance

    Web Design Consultancy for Public Accounts Committees

    2014 - 2016

  • SAPO.pt · Full time

    UX/UI Designer + UI Developer

    2010 - 2016

  • SAPO Internacional · Full time

    Online Community Dynamization + Web Design

    2008 - 2010

Projects

List to be updated soon

Contact

tmmateus@proton.me

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Live long and prosper. Vulcan salute  ]