Portugal

Coimbra Education School

Raquel Silvestre

Senior Product Designer

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

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

Keeping team members motivated

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

Fostering a good team culture

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

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

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

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

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

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

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

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

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Lead Product Designer for Carlsberg's Western European B2B e-commerce platform.

* Design E2E experiences for our client's digital products
* Build and maintain different design systems
* Develop rapport with clients and stakeholders, making sure the design projects are successfully delivered
* Coaching and training junior designers
* Advocate for accessibility in digital product
* Accessibility and UX audits
* Some client projects include: Conde Nast, Lloyds Banking Group, Splink (My Theory Test by James May), World
Remit, UK GOV (Planning Inspectorate), Funding Circle, Global

* Design of several customer experiences across MyOVO and Boost products, owning and leading projects,
engaging with UX Designers, stakeholders and developers;
* Support the Content Producer to quote and delegate the team workload;
* Organisation of several team workshops;
* Collaboration on the hiring process for UX and UI designers;

Raquel Silvestre🇵🇹

About Raquel Silvestre

Expertise