About
I make complicated things feel clear and easy to use.
I'm Maria, a product designer focused on turning dense workflows, fuzzy requirements, and overloaded interfaces into experiences people can navigate with confidence.

Lisbon, Portugal
Background
Over the last ten years I've worked across SaaS, operations platforms, and internal tools, where the design challenge is rarely about making something look good. More often it's about helping people understand what matters, what to do next, and why the product deserves their trust.
I sit somewhere between product thinking, systems design, and interface craft. I care about hierarchy, pacing, and the small decisions that make an experience feel intentional rather than merely complete.
How I work
I work best in the messy middle: when requirements are incomplete, the product has started to sprawl, and the team needs someone to create clarity without oversimplifying the problem.
That usually means stepping back to understand the structure of the experience, deciding what deserves attention first, and building a visual system strong enough to carry that logic all the way to the final UI.
Focus
I'm most at home in dashboards, workflow tools, AI-assisted interfaces, and products where removing friction has a measurable effect on how confident people feel.
If something is too dense, too noisy, or too hard to follow, that's usually where I do my best work.
Principles
Clarity over cleverness
If a pattern needs explaining, it needs redesigning.
Design the order
Sequence and hierarchy do more than any single screen.
Show the work early
Rough and shared beats polished and late.
Systems, then surfaces
Good components make good screens inevitable.