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Porto, Pt

Questioning everything to explore how Namecheap can create new value for people.

Porto, Portugal

-Introduced core UX Research methods such as user interviews, observational research, and competitive benchmarking, helping students understand how to gather and analyze user insights.-Guided students through UX Strategy processes, including the development of problem statements, needs prioritization, and affinity mapping, to synthesize research and define key challenges.-Led ideation and solution architecture sessions, teaching students how to apply these methods to generate and structure user-centered design solutions.

Lisboa E Região, Portugal

Development of Strategic Innovation/Design Thinking internal project

Helsinki Area, Finland

ME310 is a course where students of design, business and engineering come together as interdisciplinary teams to work on a year-long real-life challenge brought forward by an international company. During this year they partner up with students from one of the top universities in the global ME310 network to form a global design team. Their final proof-of-concept prototypes are displayed at the Stanford Design Fair each June in Silicon Valley, California.As a coach, my focus is to enable students to learn, apply, and experience the Human-Centered Design/Design Thinking methodology by doing needfinding, benchmarking, iterative prototyping and user testing. By going throw this process students quickly learn about the field at hand and create innovative ideas. User insights are uncovered and creative solutions are developed, engaging a range of different design thinking tools and techniques. The end result is a detailed design solution that integrates desirability, viability, and feasibility.

Teaching and Research Assistant for both ME310 - Product Innovation Course and PDP - Product Development Project.

After the internship in CEIIA I started working in the Suricata design studio. Here I have developed projects for different companies (like JP - Inspiring Knowledge) from diverse fields of work such as automotive, aerospace, TIC and packaging. It was a challenging yet extremely rewarding experience and I have collect a lot of knowledge which I believe it was significantly important to my future.

The opportunity to join the development team of CEIIA was pretty unique and helped me consolidate some of the knowledge I was able to acquire in my bachelor degree. The experience was incredible, not only because of the conceptual work I could do, but also because I was part of an organization with very important and significant values, such as electrical mobility and the way they develop projects.

Internship in a small company known for the development of audio and lighting products.In this first professional experience the connection to industry was the most significant point. Due to this connection, I had the opportunity to better understand basic construction processes like laser cutting, using cnc milling machines, painting processes and experimenting with different materials.

Pós-Graduação - Me310 Stanford - Product Innovation, Product Innovation

The Post-Graduation (Stanford University partner w/ IPP) is an interdisciplinary, project-based and team-based global course for graduate.

Product Design, Product Design

The Product Design degree trained me to professionally be capable of solving problems effectively and innovatively: with a solid knowledge.

Erasmus Intensive Programme - Micro-Sustainable Design

Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP) is a short programme of study which brings together students and staff from higher education.