Hi! I am Luísa,
a frontend developer turned product designer and founder.
Based
in Vienna, Austria.
a frontend developer turned product designer and founder.
Based
in Vienna, Austria.
I have over seven years of experience in frontend development and product design. I also cofounded a code hosting and collaboration platform called Lubeno with my partner.
The most interesting problems are not just technical but also in how design can be translated into a real product, and that's why I like to work with both. Because I build what I design, my work tends to arrive already grounded in what's feasible. I am part of the whole process, from idea to implementation.
My work is driven by curiosity, empathy, and a genuine desire to make technology more inclusive and human. I'm especially passionate about advocating for workplace equality for women and creating products that help foster that mission. Integrity, courage, and empathy guide everything I build.
A fresh take on submitting, reviewing and iterating on pull requests, built for the era of AI-generated code. This is my current ongoing work, and we have over 200 users that host code with us today.
Read the case study →
A mobile app designed as part of the Google UX Design Course. This is a fictional Italian restaurant, but the journey included wireframes, real user interviews, usability testing, lo and hi-fi prototypes.
Read the case study →At Lubeno, we started from our own lived problem as developers, that the existing collaboration tools didn't serve us for everything. From there we moved to discussions on public developer forums, published content that pulls feedback, and then direct conversations with real users. Each stage was validated enough to justify the next.
I led a product delivery inside a larger organisation after me and other teams' specialists came up with a prototype from a cross-team design sprint. This prototype was tested with five users, which validated some of our assumptions and helped us improve other parts of the prototype. I owned the project end-to-end for three months, and my work included task prioritisation and delegation, managing stakeholder expectations, launching the product and presenting to the rest of the company.