# Fernanda Vasconcelos Dantas

> Product Designer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/fernandavasconcelosdantas

I’m a fun, creative, and bold Product Designer who thrives in ambiguous situations if there’s no clear path, I figure it out and make things happen. With a background in neuroscience and mental models, I love understanding user behavior and turning insights into intuitive, impactful designs.

I’m passionate about connecting with people on a deeper level, building strong, lasting relationships, and working with purpose-driven teams. For me, success is all about collaboration, shared goals, and bringing great ideas to life together.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer, AI @ Academia.edu
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Leading design efforts for AI initiatives and collaborate across multiple teams to drive impact

### Senior UX Designer @ GSK
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Design Systems - Knapsack - Figma 
Via OneNorth - TekSystems

### Senior UX Designer @ United Airlines
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | United States
Via OneNorth - TEKsystems company.

### UX/UI Designer II @ CoStar Group
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### UX/UI Designer @ CoStar Group
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
•Extensive experience spanning the entire product development lifecycle, encompassing user research, intricate problem-solving, system modeling, and meticulous visual and interaction design, culminating in seamless development execution.

•Produced polished, high-fidelity mockups using modern design tools like Figma, AdobeXD, and Illustrator ensuring a refined user experience.

•Developed interactive prototypes with proficiency in facilitating dynamic design exploration and user interaction.

•Achieved a 40% Year-over-Year increase in user engagement through intuitive design enhancements and user experience optimizations.

•Demonstrated exceptional communication skills, effectively conveying design proposal rationale and addressing complex design challenges.

•Initiated collaborative efforts with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, research, and analytics.

### UX/UI Designer @ DemocracyLab
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote, United States
•Designing an “Alerts Feature” 
•Maximizing my communication skills with a multi-professional team. 
•Working directly with a development team, writers, managers, and director. 
•Preparing documents sets and collaborating on cross-functional teams to add value to discussions and execute an advanced graphical presentation for client requirements and tasks. 
•Working with an existing design system and iterating for the new feature.  
•Iterating based on teams suggestions to design improvement and viability

### UX Designer @ Project Giving Kids, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | United States
Redesign of Non-profit website
•Worked closely with stakeholders 
•Negotiating design implementation with stakeholders to ensure decision-making is focused on delivering customer and business value.
•Headed a team to create a new website, led concept development including the user journey map, user persona, UI flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups
•Developed a full new information architecture
•Produce the work of design concentrations including visual design, interaction design, design system. 
•Create, organize, and share projects style guides, pattern libraries, and asset repositories. 
•Led usability research to identify user pain points to increase website usability
•Amplified website usability by doing testing and iteration after each round.

### Designer @ Desenvolve.mais
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | Brazil
•Visual & Branding Design 
•Ability to wear multiple hats, managed a variety of cross-media projects Involving graphic design, content creation, brand identity, illustrations. 
•Designed and executed social media strategy across 22.6k followers


## Education
### Certificate in UX/UI Design
University of California, Berkeley

### Postgraduate Degree in Neuroscience
Faculdade Unyleya

### Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapist
Universidade de Brasília


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/fvdantas

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Last updated: 2026-04-13