About me

Hello, I’m Margarida. I’m a Visual Designer originally from Portugal but living in London. I am a fan of travelling, beautiful design and movies. Previously I lived in Barcelona where I studied design and communication, typography and worked at Mecal short film festival and slowly started with my first steps in the digital world.

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Projects

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  Hives and Honeycombs - Illustration and brandingThought it would be good to show you the development of this little guys that I absolutely love. This was a first brand concept for Hives & Hoenycombs, a card game built that I sporadicaly helped with some visual wisdom.
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  Keep it clean, some fun animations for CCleanerReally had a blast exploring motion designs and ways to communicate with users in this project. I know this is just a little animation but it led to a bunch of descoveries and interesting conversations
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  Sky Kids, Play and GamesThe Sky kids project is a partnership between ustwo and Sky and we worked as one team, moving between offices, so the teams could work together.
• Worldpay insightsWorldpay insights was a project made to help businesses and customers to visualise the power of their data.
• Hudl 2, or designing your customised OSThis was such a fun project. It was great being part of such a great team and work with people in different areas of the business like branding, product design, advertisment, etc... I'm so happy and proud to have been part of this project and have helped building something that would end up in so many poeple's homes. If you want to read more about this project please check out here and here.
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  A Little Brand Guideline in a weekI can't believe this happened but it was loads of fun. I wish I would have had more time to enjoy and refine this little brand guidelines, but independently of that I'm really happy with the result. And seeing the brand in the wild is just amazing check it out here

Projects credited in

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  hudl
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  SKYWe partnered with Sky to help bring to life their new proposition for an app designed specifically for kids and their parents.
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  Building Moodnotes 2.0Around this time last year, we launched the first version of Moodnotes in partnership with Thriveport. We’re proud to say that today a new and improved version is out for iOS. Reading users’ feedback from around the world and seeing how our product made a positive impact on people’s lives has been incredible. So we felt a real weight of responsibility when we began looking at how to make this product better for these very same users. All of this echoed our mission for the first release: Making u

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Work history

Design ManagerThe Economist
Aug 2021London, United KingdomFull Time
Helping to keep a great design standard a the Economist Mobile team
Product DesignerNovoda
Feb 2017 - Jun 2021London, United KingdomFull Time
As a product designer at Novoda, I work very closely with the product team and clients to build meaningful experiences with the user in mind

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Skills

• UI Design
• Digital Illustration
• Digital Prototyping
• Motion Design
• Digital Typography
• Adobe Create Suite
• Bohemian Sketch
• User Testing
• Branding
• Brand Building

Education

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MASTER DEGREE: TypographyUniversity of Barcelona
Sep 2011 - Jul 2012Barcelona, Spain
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MASTER DEGREE: Design and Visual CommunicationElisava
Sep 2009 - Jul 2010Barcelona, Spain

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