Mara Oyelaran

Mara Oyelaran

Senior Product Designer

LisbonContact

Designs the consoles that operations teams live in all day.

Experience

Northwind

2021 – Present

Senior Product Designer

Owns the design system behind the dispatch console.

  • Cut the time to build a new console screen from three days to four hours.
  • Rebuilt the dispatch queue around a single live table, taking the steps to assign a job from nine to two.
  • Reduced the console's component library from forty-one shared parts to twelve, and wrote the rules that keep it there.
  • Runs the fortnightly critique the platform, billing and field teams all bring work to.

Beacon Health

2018 – 2021

Product Designer

Rebuilt the triage screens three thousand clinicians use every shift.

  • Redrew the intake form around the questions clinicians ask first; abandoned entries fell by a third.
  • Led the accessibility pass that took the product to WCAG 2.1 AA ahead of the trust's audit.
  • Sat with two engineers for a year to ship the shift handover screen.

Ferro Studio

2016 – 2018

Product Designer

Design of record for a rotating list of clients — logistics, insurance, and one retail bank.

  • Took four products from a research brief to a shipped interface.
  • Set up the studio's first shared component library.

Education

University of Porto

2012 – 2016

BA · Communication Design

Skills

Design: Design systems · Research · B2B consoles · Interaction design · Prototyping
Working with engineers: Design tokens · Component APIs · Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)
Tools: Figma · Storybook · Framer · HTML & CSS