Atlas Mobility
Finding a working charger in under a minute
Web app · 2025
Teams I've worked with
- Lumen Bank
- Atlas Mobility
- Verdant Energy
- Fieldnote
- Oakhouse Coffee
- Studio Parallel
- Northwind Health
- Parcelwise
Selected work
Work that shipped, and kept on working.
A few recent projects, from mobile banking to climate tech. Each one launched, and each one moved a number that mattered.
Services
How I can help your team
I work end to end, from the first question to the last line of code, or step in wherever your team needs it most.
01
Product design
End-to-end design for web and mobile products, from discovery and flows to polished, production-ready interfaces.
- User research and discovery
- Flows and information architecture
- Interaction and visual design
- Prototyping and usability testing
02
Design systems
Foundations that keep growing teams fast and consistent: tokens, components, documentation and the habits that make them stick.
- Design tokens and theming
- Component libraries in design and code
- Documentation and guidelines
- Adoption and governance
03
Front-end development
I build what I design. Accessible, fast interfaces that engineering teams are happy to inherit and extend.
- React and Next.js
- TypeScript
- Accessible, responsive interfaces
- Motion and micro-interactions
04
Product strategy
Workshops, audits and roadmaps that turn a fuzzy idea or a tired product into a clear, testable plan.
- Discovery workshops
- UX and accessibility audits
- MVP definition
- Roadmapping
Experience
A decade of shipping
From a small studio in Berlin to leading design at a digital bank, and now working independently with teams I admire.
2023 – Now
Independent product designer and developer
Self-employed · Lisbon
Partnering with founders and product teams to design, prototype and ship digital products end to end, from the first workshop to production code. Recent clients include Atlas Mobility, Verdant and Oakhouse Coffee.
2020 – 2023
Lead product designer
Lumen Bank · Lisbon
Led a team of six designers across onboarding, payments and savings, and created Halo, the design system now used by every product squad.
2018 – 2020
Senior product designer
Fieldnote · Remote
First design hire. Shaped the collaborative research workspace from private beta to 40,000 teams, working hand in hand with engineering on every release.
2016 – 2018
Designer and front-end developer
Studio Parallel · Berlin
Designed and built websites and web apps for clients in culture, retail and technology at a 14-person digital studio.
Recognition
Awards, talks and features
Some of the moments when the work was recognised by people outside the team.
Design systems that survive engineering
Interface Lisbon
Talk2025
Kind words
What it's like working together
Founders, product leaders and engineers on the projects we shipped side by side.
Mara has a rare ability to hold the whole product in her head, from the business model down to the last pixel of a loading state. Our app went from something we apologised for to the thing we put in our adverts.
Inês Carvalho
Chief Product Officer, Lumen Bank
We came to Mara with a messy idea and a hard deadline. Twelve weeks later we launched an app our customers genuinely love, and the numbers have backed it up ever since.
Sophie Brandt
Co-founder and CEO, Verdant Energy
Mara's audit changed how our whole company thinks about reliability. She makes complicated systems feel obvious to the people who use them, and she brings the whole team along with her.
Tomás Ribeiro
Head of Product, Atlas Mobility
She doesn't just hand over designs, she ships them. Mara built a big part of our interface herself, and years later our engineers still call it the cleanest code in the product.
Daniel Okafor
VP of Engineering, Fieldnote
Have a project in mind?
Let's make something people love to use.
Booking new projects for January 2027. I reply to every message within two business days.
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