Cristina Tulcidas, Product Designer ❊
Crafting conscious experiences that help people. Previously helped startups launch SaaS B2C and B2B products across Web, iOS and Android apps, maintain Design System efforts and lead a small team of junior devs. As an advocate of cross-collaboration, I wrote an article about why devs and designers work better together at the beginning of my career that has reached +1k reads.
2024 🎤 Speaker
Tech teams from a designer’s pov
The key to building successful products in a team that thrives in doing so, is determined by the seamless cross-collaboration between designers and developers within well organised and structured management within tech teams.
Past event: 12 Jan
@GeekSessions
2023 💼 Work
Proposal to improve Flat.io’s out-dated interface
2023 💼 Work
Increased user-engagement (+20%) and instilled greater confidence for beginner and first time-users
Emotional Design & Design Psychology Workshop
A Workshop focused on the emotional psychology behind user experiences such as the creation of content, websites, application and interactions, and the assessment of emotion, motivation, cognition and behaviour. Reinforcing the importance behind the psychology of visual perception and usability heuristics. The workshop’s approach to the topics is both theoretical and practical.
UX Design Foundations Course
This certification delves into the exploration of the knowledge of UX fundamentals such as: User-centered Design, Business Goals, Persona Creation, Ideation, Architecture Information, User-flows, Usability Testing and other User Research quantitive and qualitive methods. Studying how to analyze different and potential user behaviours, helping to develop scenarios and workflows tasks, far beyond research, prototypes, wireframes and others. The students perform practical explorations on the topics mentioned and deliver a final project case-study.
Participated in the product strategy definition and led the end-to-end design for AI Coaching’s digital health chatbot coaching solution
Designed an innovative user-centric solution for an improved performance on the search of digital certifications offered by DIHK’s 79 local Chambers of Commerce with an AI chatbot
2019 🎤 Speaker
UX is smart. UX is kind. UX is emotion.
Past event: 25 May
@Faro DEVDay by Turbine Kreuberg
Back to school
Past event: 22 Mar
@UAlg, University of Algarve
Managed a small team of junior devs, and led the end-to-end design of an educational digital management platform MVP for professional educators in 3 months
Why devs and designers work better together
Past event: 25 May
@GeekGirlsPortugal
Designer by qualification, human by choice ✱
What ties it together, is a love for learning and passion for understanding people and their stories ✿
Efficient communication and collaboration is imperative to productive and fulfilling relationships in a workplace. And Product Design is a team sport that requires collaborative, in-depth conversations with PMs, Engineers, Researchers, Marketing Strategists, CX and Stakeholders to help translate business into experiences.
People science is the practice of examining how people think, feel, behave and learn. It should be embedded into everything we do.
Vanessa Nascimento
Co-founder at Local.Foundation
Team Lead at Evodeck Software and Local.Foundation
Cristina is a committed employee with a very high sense of responsibility. A team player, works well under structure leadership/project management and is able to recognise improvements from her side and to suggest fixers to team’ problems. Wish I had the chance of working together again and I would definitely recommend her.
Penélope Gonçalves
Tech & Team Lead at ContentServ and Co-founder at Local.Foundation
Event Organizer at Geek Sessions
Cristina sparks joy whenever she talks about product design and how it can be used to better everyone’s lives, and is a big inspiration for me, as a software engineer, on the importance of delivering the best possible products that not only will be good, but that will matter. We’ve collaborated in the past through Geek Sessions, and her sense of commitment to community is just as strong as her good practices and hard work.
Gustavo Jordão
Engineering Lead at Rydes
Team Collaborator at Evodeck Software
To this day the best designer I’ve ever worked with. Every developer knows how painful it can be to work with designers. I’ve never had a single problem with Cristina as we worked closely together to figure out the best solutions for our users but also to our developers. 10/10 would work with again
Kelly Mestre
Full-stack Software Engineer at AI Coaching
Team Collaborator at Evodeck Software and AI Coaching
I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Cristina for a few years and since we parted ways to explore new challenges I really miss her as a really good professional that she is in a team. Cristina is a team player always open to discuss, brainstorm with her teammates. Her close connection and work with the development team makes everyones work flow very smoothly and very easily. Besides being a great communicator, in her work she is very well organised and perfectionist which makes her work very defined and reliable, even from the most important to the smallest details. I learned a lot with her, and also a word and a concept which I will never forget – consistency. These learnings have guided me throughout my professional career making me implement the best practices and giving me a better understanding on how important her work is to achieve a good product. I still hope that one day our paths will cross and we can work together again because good professionals like Cristina are really hard to find and there is no doubt that Cristina is a highly valuable member to have on the team.