Lucía Amado

Experience

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  Crea Labs

  Jul 2005 - Oct 2010

  Manager of a small team of designers, took part in content planning and technical evaluation of new projects, studied and tested new solutions to meet the clients’ needs. I also planned, designed, and developed projects which required special attention to detail. Frontend design and development. Graphic design.

  • Design Manager

    May 2008 - Oct 2010

  • Designer / HTML Developer

    Jul 2005 - Apr 2008
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  Infragistics

  Nov 2010 - Jan 2016

  Senior UX Visual Designer

  Principal Visual Designer for component libraries products in the jQuery UI, ASP.NET, jQuery Mobile, and WinJS platforms. My job consisted of UX and UI design of new features and components, front end development (HTML, CSS, jQuery UI, LESS), technical evaluation, stakeholder engagement, effort estimation, planning of tasks and projects, onboarding and mentorship.In 2015 I ran a tutorial-style workshop about the basics of Visual Design at ISTA Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. I also presented another workshop in UXify Bulgaria (an international conference about User Experience). The subject then was "Are your visuals helping your message" and it covered the basics of Visual Design and how to apply them to concrete projects. Show less

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  Inter-American Development Bank

  Jan 2015 - Jun 2017

  Senior UX/UI Consultant - Design and Front End Development

  Consultant for transition to SharePoint and redesign/rebuild of all intranet sites. My job consisted of UX and UI design and implementation in HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap integration.

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  CarTrawler

  Aug 2017 - now

  UX/UI Designer of B2B products, providing end to end design, from leading discovery workshops, to ideation (wireframes, prototypes, user flows), to remote user testing, to high fidelity designs for dev implementation. Confident with stakeholder management, collaboration across functions, and leading knowledge sharing sessions within the Design team. As personal projects I took on documentation tasks on our User Research capabilities and started the conversation about UX Benchmarking. I also participated in the planning of the design and implementation of a new Design System, to be applied across multiple platforms and products. Show less

  • Product Design Team Lead

    Aug 2021 - now

  • Product Designer

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2021