Patricia Pascual

Patricia Pascual

Product Designer in Spain, She/Her

About

I’m a designer with 9 years of experience, currently working at New Relic. I am passionate about solving complex problems, as well as building design systems and solutions that scale.

Work Experience

2020 — Now
Remote, Spain

As part of the Platform / Design System team, my responsibilities are:

  • Working within a dedicated team to maintain and scale a Design System for over 900 engineers and 30–40 designers across different time zones.

  • Designing and improving components, patterns, and experiences used across the whole company, starting with identifying the need, and ending with supporting adoption and usage.

  • Creating strong documentation and usage guidelines for all projects, and helping teams by providing support and conducting design reviews.

As part of the Dashboards Ecosystem team, my key responsibilities were:

  • Driving the end-to-end design process of experiences in the dashboards, data exploration, and data visualization field, keeping them connected to the overall product experience

  • Championing a developer-centric experience via user research and analytics insights to ensure users' needs are met.

  • Applying both big-picture design thinking and attention to detail to complex technical issues in a fast-paced environment.

  • Supporting the execution of the UX vision and being a contributor to the larger design community.

2021 — 2021

UI Design Lecturer | User Experience Design Online Master

2017 — 2020
Barcelona
  • Designed features and services, owning the end-to-end process from early research and conceptualization to the smallest details across different platforms.

  • Developed a deep understanding of users to identify main insights or opportunity spaces, taking the initiative to propose ideas and solutions.

  • Documented strategy, critical design decisions, and trade-offs to address ambiguity.

  • Focused on Accessibility as part of the user experience and interface design.

  • Worked comfortably across different platforms: Android, iOS, and Web.

In addition to my contributions, I also had the experience of managing a small yet mighty team with 3 direct reports. I nurtured a healthy team culture, supporting professional growth, mentored the team on design processes and managed the team's workload, and supported the hiring process, being a part of every major decision within the design team.

2015 — 2017
Barcelona

As a product designer, I worked on the team responsible for monetizing the platform (iOS and Android) and on a heavy-duty web back-office for the moderation team.

  • Worked in a highly collaborative and agile environment.

  • Identified and solved problems directly impacting revenue and acted on opportunities to improve the product.

  • Defined problems & goals, mapped UX flows, prototyped interactions, and oversaw the implementation by partnering closely with engineering.

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