Mentor focused on career advice, portfolio review, and leadership path. There are two types of mentorship options: through online meetings or asynchronous chatting. Let's chat? :) https://adplist.org/mentors/ana-carvalho

At Sanar-Cetrus, I led the design of the company's digital products: SanarFlix, Sanar Residência Médica, Sanar Pós, Fellowship, and several internal products. I partnered with engineers, analytics, business, and product leaders to define product goals and vision. I was also responsible for the design team's guidance and individual growth: creating, managing, and maintaining product design practices, along with deliveries and roadmap. Main achievements during my collaboration with Sanar-Cetrus:- Dendê Design System;- Product Design career vision for ICs and Leads;- Writing guide (across the company, including UX and marketing details);- Design Guild Leadership: to achieve a consistent design between disciplines and the company's different products (product, marketing, videomakers).- Research Guild and Repository: to foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing between user-centric departments (Design, Product, CX, and others). - SanarFlix concept redesign and value proposition for users (unified journey for medicine students: from basic cycle studies to medical residence preparation).- Post-grad product redesign to achieve a user-centric better experience. - Vision and implementation of a united classroom design for all products, with design themes applied to it.- User experience journey end-to-end: from LP to checkout and product. Marketing LP's approval loop to achieve design consistency between product and marketing/sales regarding UX/UI components and best practices aligned with marketing strategies to get suitable leads.

Responsible for scaling up and leading the team to research, test, and develop new digital products in a health group. Manage the design process/quality, headcount, budget, and team expectations. Business units I led: CIIA (integrated care for health plan patients), Therapy (oncology patients and professionals), and Hospitals (ER's patients and professionals). I was also responsible for the Design Operations with an executive focus: team's headcount, finance, human resources reports, and offboarding metrics.

At EBANX, I led the user experience in B2B products, creating, managing, and maintaining product design good practices. Responsible for the team's guidance, deliveries, and roadmap. Leadership people-centric based, with individual development care. Interaction with worldwide merchants, focusing on human-centered research to deliver a complete experience through design. Main products scope:- EBANX One, the experience between the merchant and the company - Payout solution for merchants and payees- Payments touchpoints for end-users in Brasil and LATAM

Focus on developing projects and processes — design and running research, with documentation of synthesis and insights for product enhancements. As the lead, I ran follow-ups and mentored 1:1s, emphasizing personal and professional growth. I was also a member of the R&D lab, responsible for product design development for Artificial Intelligence and Image Recognition solutions.

During six years (IN)Consciente Coletivo Festival appropriated the creative economy concept to empower and accelerate business and startups from design, fashion, arts, and gastronomy. I lot of time, effort, and love dedicated to this business brought me networking and friends. For sure, one of the bests experiences as a co-creator that I had in my life.

Design professor focused on teaching creative techniques to unlock innovative ideas and research to branding development and creation. Through activities in groups and co-creation with colleagues, I facilitated a lot of creative methods.

Participation in an in loco research in Africa. The project aimed to organize the research and spend one-month interviewing users for a new product. I interviewed people from South Africa, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Kenya. The outcome of the research guided the next steps for the product launch and further improvements.

Co-creation and development with the team to deliver high quality solutions in products. I was a part of several projects for Brazilian, North American and South American companies.

Design professor focused on helping students to deliver their final paper (TCC), mentoring the final steps and presentation.

Designer focused on creative research to deliver digital marketing campaigns and strategic planning for a retail chain of home appliances.

Entrepreneur in a women's fashion brand specialized in leggings. The brand concept was to design contemporary cuts in exclusive prints. COLADA in Brazilian Portuguese means glued, as a legging should be. With a rock n roll style and a strong feminine touch, the brand elevated an ordinary product to a desired fashion piece, and those were the key brand awareness.

Co-owner of a men's brand specialized in t-shirts focused on poker games. This theme was chosen based on research and player behavior studies that showed that the poker game culture was growing in Brazil. There was a big gap in this fashion brand market, so I allied with my strong fashion and professional skills. I've made a bet: an all-in to an entrepreneur life. The main brand concepts were inspired by the universe of cards, suits, and poker games.