Milena Leimig 🐉

Milena Leimig 🐉

Designer in Pernambuco, Brazil, Any pronouns

About

A designer interested in experimenting with identities, letterforms, gouges and digitally made objects.

Their practice frequently explores multiple visual vocabularies throughout their simultaneously digital and traditional work, creating and acting on projects through graphic communication, identity construction, web & mobile design and illustrations.

Contact

Work Experience

2022 — 2023

Responsible for developing visual identity and creating content for social media for internal project, website interface (UI) design, logos, shirts & more.

2022 — 2022

User experience design (UX & UI), usability testing, attitudinal and behavioral research with users (UX research) and market analysis in a project sponsored by home center company.

2021 — 2021
Graphic Design Intern at NeuroUp

Part of the marketing and advertising team, designing for social media, sponsored ads, emails, infographics, motion design and video editing.

Education

2019 — 2023

Projects

2021

Dashboard design (UI & UX) for performance forecasts of sugar cane harvests, along with usability testing, user research, diagnostic research and benchmarking for this proof of concept.

2020

Dashboard interface development (UX & UI) for industrial monitoring, usability tests, UX research, diagnostic research and market research in proof of concept for Gerdau AçoNorte.

Side Projects

2022

A product design project of a ubiquitous system for regulating and monitoring your sleep routine, with the aim of assisting sleep regulation and the daily process of waking up.

2022

A design proposal of a public bench inspired directly by the Encruzilhada neighborhood, located in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco.

2022

Assets for Lendas do Brasil Selvagem, a tactical and roguelike game inspired by brazilian folklore legends.

Writing

2023
About urban languages: traces of vernacular design on the Mercado da Encruzilhada's signs, CIDI/CONGIC 2023

A study of the design of commercial signs displayed at the Mercado da Encruzilhada, a public market and cultural heritage located in the city of Recife, PE, with more than 70 years of history.

2021

Exploring the understanding of service design through the definition of user value while at the same time, offering a vision of what is 'value' from an associative perspective to Wittgenstein's philosophical study of language and communication.

Speaking

2023
Sobre Arte em Pixels: uma Introdução
Escola Técnica Estadual Cícero Dias

'About Art in Pixels: an Introduction'. Lecture class for high school students about how to begin making pixel art for games, presenting tools and techniques.

Features

2023

'The future of organizations from a design driven perspective'. Part of the writing collaborators.