Portugal

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

Growth Design

UX Research

Bachelor of Education - BEd

Cristina Tulcidas

Senior Product Designer

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Ahref

Figma

HTML

Jira

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Project management

Conversational AI

Chatbot

Design systems

Prototyping

Product roadmap

Product strategy

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Local.Foundation tackles the growing problem of loneliness in Community builders, by activating people with the right tools and mindsets to foster and find their communities. The mission is to enable people to build communities while facilitating fundamental values of safety, diversity, equality, inclusivity, accessibility and ethics.

Tutteo is a music-tech company, building delightful products that transform how music enthusiasts learn, write, share and consume music.


As a product designer at Tutteo’s, my main responsibility was towards leading the creation, improvement and maintenance of the Flat.io B2C (collaborative music notation platform for beginner composers and professionals alike) product features across platforms: WebApp, iOS and Android Native Apps in both light & dark mode.

Experts in language psychology, computer linguistics, conversational writing, machine learning and data-science, AI Coaching specialises in the development of web-based digital coaching solutions, designed to help professionals further develop themselves with the help of a digital health coach bot. Their core skills and values focus on digital health coaches, chatbots, conversational AI, interactive learning and development.

Leading the design and working collaboratively with the product team members, I designed end-to-end solutions for B2B German-based client serviced projects and the internal products at AI Coaching.

Evodeck Software is a professional consulting company for Agile Web Development, DevOps Engineering and Hosting as well as Embedded Device Development and IoT based in Faro, Portugal.

My role at Evodeck was varied as I was not only part of the development of user-centered projects focusing on the user-interface and user-experience, but I was also responsible for the visuals for branding and marketing purposes across all platforms, while also adventuring in learning some React, leading a small team of junior developers and managing the product.

The companies main focus is on developing software solutions from web application to mobile apps.

Focus on creating engaging communications on both digital and traditional platforms. Encompassing a variety of roles within design, front-end development (HTML, CSS), Analytics and SEO, and all things digital and print. Also integrated on the Marketing Strategy for online business growing and Video editing.

Some of my daily tasks include: Managing Back-offices - Wordpress; Required odd jobs: HTML/CSS; Analyzing Traffic: Google Analytics; Posting and Managing Videos - Youtube, Video editing (After Effects); Sketching, designing and REPRO with InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.

Triplesky is a branding agency focused on visual identities, luxury resorts, hotels and restaurants. 

My responsibilities at the agency were mainly focused on web design and sometimes some front-end development (HTML, CSS) of e-mails and other small jobs, while also being involved with graphic design in required projects. 

The company has been growing in the past few years, expanding their work internationally, having worked for places like Switzerland, Madeira, Cape Verde, Angola and South Africa.

Based in the second largest city in the Algarve region in Portugal, Critérios Criativos is a design and communication agency focusing on providing a 360 degree kind of service.

As the only designer with a focus on web design, user-interface, digital design, front-end development (HTML, CSS), user-experience and interaction design, I was responsible for all projects and tasks requiring any of these subjects, having worked on various websites, e-mails and digital projects.

Opera software based in Oslo Norway is a Internet services company serving over 350 million users worldwide. Opera products enable more than 350 million internet consumers to discover and connect with the content and services that matter most to them, no matter what device, network or location

As an intern at Opera, although the lack of experience, trainees are given equal responsibility as any other employee, with the main goal to acquire knowledge and grow professionally. Supervisors are always willing to help and provide the best conditions and tools for the growth and development of each individual trainee. My tasks focused on web design, user-interface, user-experience, front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) of web pages and interaction design. I worked closely with the IT Department, where I played a part in designing and developing the new intranet website, the envoy badge and other odd tasks System Administration requires with the help of my supervisor and colleagues. For the time I spent at the Marketing Department working with the Design Team, formed of 7 people including myself, where I performed graphic and digital design tasks, working on varied projects ranging from web banners, social media campaigns, speed dial covers for apps, among others.

The company also has offices in Sweden, Poland, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Australia and the United States.

Studio Netting is a digital design agency focusing on making good websites, their motto being: handmade is best! Starting with the clients needs and resources, the aim is to create a solution that fits their business or organization. WordPress is Studio Netting's preferred platform on performing this task. The tasks at hand, range from concept development, design of visual identity, interaction design, installation, programming and integration with social media. 

My tasks as a trainee were to understand the different type of markup languages (HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, XML and PHP) and learn front-end development using HTML, CSS and jQuery plugins. I worked closely with the rest of the team in a few projects, performing tasks within setting-up Wordpress accounts with www.wordpress.org inside our server and a FTP manager, also using Dreamweaver to test and develop, but also designing some banners and mockups. 

The agency's core focus is on websites, graphic design, blog's, e-commerce, interaction design and user-experience with world wide known CMS platform Wordpress.

Cristina Tulcidas🇵🇹