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Designing My Way

I'm a Brazilian Product Designer based in Florianópolis - Brazil.

In 2017, as I embarked on a backpacking trip, I found myself questioning my career path of 6 years in the audiovisual field.

The freedom and flexibility of couchsurfing and volunteering sparked a desire for change. But where to start?

It was when I read the book "Designing Your Life," that inspired me to explore design beyond moving pixels and adopt an experimentation mindset.

I applied design thinking to my career change, created a low-budget study plan and with $78 and 651 hours, landed my first UX role in 2019. 

Since then, I've been sharing my learnings with the UX community, co-founded Vagas UX, and worked as a Product Designer and Product Manager for tech companies in Brazil and globally.

I thrive in collaborative environments and cherish the balance between creative problem-solving and focused deep work in designing end-to-end features and products.

I enjoy thinking visually and bringing a UX mindset to all aspects of my life.

Whether it's sharing resources with the UX community, illustrating ideas, or trying out new recipes, it became part of my life to explore and experiment.

👣 Flâneuse
🇵🇹 citizen
💍 Cali
🌅 4h15 am
📵 2 yrs w/o
📖 My manual
💌 Async
👣 Flâneuse
🇵🇹 citizen
💍 Cali
🌅 4h15 am
📵 2 yrs w/o
📖 My manual
💌 Async

My values

What guides my decisions and behavior.

Be simple

  • Necessity and enough even over desire

  • Straightforward instead of exaggeration or assumptions

  • Quality even over quantity

Be curious

  • Curiosity instead of assumptions and rightness

  • Openness to possibilities instead of protecting what I've become

  • Wisdom even over knowledge

Be fair

  • Diverse perspectives even over single stories

  • Be mindful even over new experiences

  • Hold to my values instead of pleasing others

  • Diverse perspectives even over single stories

  • Be mindful even over new experiences

  • Hold to my values instead of pleasing others

Experience

3 years working fully remote for tech companies in Brazil and globally distributed.

Skutalab

Co-founder and Product Designer | 2022 - 2023

Bunny Studio

Product Designer and Product Manager | 2021 - 2022

PicPay

Product Designer | 2020 - 2021

VagasUX

Co-founder and Product Designer | 2019 - 2020

Enjoei

UX Designer | 2019

Highlights

Things I've launched, interviews, and mentions in the UX community.

No-code challenge

40+ days testing and launching with no-code tools

2022
Interview at @aprende_isa

Isa is a UX designer and content creator. I talked to her about my process to shift the UX design field

2022
Top performer student at IxDF

Top 1% student in IxDF UX Design course

2021
Featured in the community

One of the recommended authors to follow on UX Collective

2020
Interview about UX design

UX Design design and how I transitioned career

2020
Speaker on the Hexagon UX Community

Sharing about my shift to UX Design and Portfolio

2020
Speaker at MoL

Masters of Learning to sharing my self learning journey to UX

2020
A no-code app to easily access a book summary

Summary of the book Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps

2019
No-code app with 30 actions of happiness

Created during pandemic to share 30 actions in period of crisis to contribute for a happier and kinder world.

2019
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Let's get in touch

Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just a friendly hello 😄

llaravacco@gmail.com

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Last updated Jan 2025.