About Karen
I have a keen eye for detail and consider myself to be an inherently curious person. After 5+ years working in Corporate Communications and Consultancy in Chile, I decided to travel to Ireland to improve my English speaking skills while working remotely as a journalist. After moving to Lisbon, I made a career change by enrolling in Ironhack's Web Development bootcamp, which led me to work as a Front-end developer for two years.
Working in the tech industry made me reconnect with design, an old interest of mine. I realised that learning about people’s problems and helping solve them in a creative and meaningful way through design is what truly motivates me. My goal is to keep learning about users’ problems to help solve them through digital products that are easy and pleasant to use.
Spanish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Portuguese
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Freelance Web DesignerUX/UI DesignerDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2023 - Today (3 years and 5 months)Lisbon, PortugalAs a freelancer, I was commissioned to design a book store webapp. The project included screens for mobile, tablet, and desktop views and entailed a research stage, the creation of wireframes, a style guide, and a final phase of UI design. The webapp design will be used by a coding school as a challenge for its students. They will use the mockup as a guide to write the code for this fictional bookstore in order to improve their coding skills. I was chosen for this project due to my experience as a Front-end developer.
- 6B Digital AgencyJr. Front-end Web DeveloperDIGITAL AND ITApril 2021 - October 2022 (1 year and 7 months)Collaborated on projects involving React js, Next js, typescript, and Tailwind. Also worked on documenting the existing websites for clients such as Soar Beyond (SMART) and Public Health England (PHE) on Figma.
- Euro M' AgencyJr. Front-end Web DeveloperDIGITAL AND ITAugust 2020 - February 2021 (6 months)Lisbon, PortugalCollaborated on projects involving Javascript, SCSS SASS, HTML, and React.
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Education
- UX / UI DesignerMarketing & Digital Design School CEI Spain2022Course based on UX principles, Design Sprint, Design Thinking, prototyping, design of interfaces, and user testing. The tools I used were Figma, Miro, Whimsical, Maze, PasteApp, Zeplin, and Storybook.
- Front-end Web DeveloperIronhack Lisbon2020Full-time Web Development intensive 9-week course in Ironhack, Lisbon (Global Tech School ranked #3 worldwide) with a focus on clean code principles, design patterns and test driven development (TDD).