Larissa
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Larissa

Product Designer

2025 is the year! Let's go! Good vibes only!

16 days ago

I like designing thoughtful, friendly, and enjoyable products to simplify things.

Throughout my career, I’ve focused on helping people, problem solving, making things easier and more user-friendly. I’ve designed experiences and set visions and strategies to help clients maximize return on hotel investments and companies boost morale post-COVID.

I take the same approach for product design, leveraging my hospitality expertise and business knowledge to design products that bring real value.

My loves: 🐶 🎾 🥊 🏊🏼‍♀️ 🎧 ✈️ 🍵 🍫 🍦 🍣 🥩

Contact

LinkedIn

Projects

2024
Twos

Upgrading organization efficiency with split view

A cross-platform productivity tool to organize life, write things down, and remember more

2023

Reducing churn with simplified host onboarding

A community-building cross-platform tool for neighbors with shared passions

2023

Personalizing sustainable cooking with image recognition

A recipe AI that saves money and time for health, eco-friendly individuals

2023

Building fitness community with social app features

An in-app community for fitness lovers

2023

Responsive streetwear storefront for Shopify integration

A place for fans to purchase lifestyle brand merchandise

Work Experience

2022 — Now
  • Lead design efforts, including user research, interface and experience design, and prototyping while partnering with founding team to translate product vision and strategy into human-centered design solutions. - Twos • Productivity Cross-Platform App (iOS, Android, desktop, web)
  • Lead new user onboarding revamp to cut abandon rate by a targeted 40%. - Social Networking Cross-Platform App (iOS, Android, web)
  • Spearheaded design process for the merchandise storefront website launch. - MiraiMart, Studio Mirai • Lifestyle
  • Led website redesign: Improved communication effectiveness with proper information architecture to reduce task time by 40%. - Non-Profit
2021 — 2022
Workplace Experience at Spotify
Boston, MA
  • Identified employee motivations and addressed return-to-office difficulties by deploying purposeful events, increasing peak daily occupancy from 5% to 35% in the first 4 months of reopening-the-office.
  • Owned global programs and budgets while working cross-functionally to deliver impactful, high-quality workplace experience, resulting in 200% increase in engagement.
2019 — 2020
Workplace Experience at thoughtbot
Boston, MA

Introduced strategic workplace experience for optimal performance, growth, and wellbeing of teams.

2019 — 2019
Workplace Experience at Yesware
Boston, MA

Established initiatives to promote enjoyable, dynamic experience with support from people operations.

2015 — 2019
Consulting & Valuation at HVS
Hong Kong
  • Designed guest experience that empowers clients with ROI-driven strategies based on in-depth market research, financial forecasting and collaboration with architects.
  • Completed 20+ hospitality investment advisory projects across Asia Pacific.

Side Projects

2023

Simple Metalens - SMD Tool: A free optics tool to help engineers build and simulate metalenses #webdesign #logodesign #branddesign

2021
wds

COVID kicked me out of the office and my job, but that didn't stop my passion for workplace design. I took this opportunity to explore design from another angle, a non-architect, non-interior designer one.

Short for Workplace Design Studio, wds is a podcast dedicated to workplace design. Hosted by me, wds explores the world of workplace experience (WX) and spatial design through the eyes of hospitality, office operations and the people and culture team.

Listen on Spotify.

Education

2022 — 2023
UX Academy at Designlab
2010 — 2014
BS in Hospitality Administration at Boston University