Three-week sprint
MVP sprints
Information architecture, end-to-end user flows and a clickable Figma prototype tested with real users, ready for sprint-one engineering.
Read the scopeProduct design & design systems · Brooklyn
Complex software, shipped clearly.
Elena Cardoso and three senior collaborators work directly with founders, product managers and engineering teams: finding where users stall, building Figma systems that scale, and shipping interfaces that lift activation and retention.
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Overview
Elena Cardoso — selected practice.
Good product design holds up when real data hits the table, not just in the presentation. Fixed-scope sprints and senior embedded retainers plug into your Linear, Jira, GitHub and Figma workflow without agency bloat, always against a scope agreed in writing first.
Selected work
Case studies, component libraries and shipped interfaces.
Component library
Design systems
Semantic colour, spacing and type variables, accessible components and dark-mode tokens that engineers can map straight to code.
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One-week diagnostic
UX audits
A friction and WCAG 2.2 AA audit of your onboarding or checkout funnel, with the highest-impact flow redesigned and ready to build.
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Sprints and embedded engagements, in one index.
0-to-1 MVP design sprint
Core information architecture, end-to-end flows, an interactive prototype for customer and investor testing, and a starter UI kit.
Figma design system & tokens
Semantic variables, Auto Layout accessible components, dark-mode tokens and Storybook-aligned usage docs.
UX audit & flow redesign
Heuristic friction audit, WCAG 2.2 AA check, funnel teardown and redesigned high-impact screens.
Discovery & usability testing
Participant screeners, live task-based prototype tests, video highlight reels and a prioritised opportunity roadmap.
Embedded design retainer
A principal-level partner at your standups, shipping weekly feature specs and reviewing staging builds with your developers.
Handoff & implementation QA
Breakpoint matrices, empty, error and loading states, focus-order annotations and a live staging bug bash.
Clean engineering handoff
Designed for edge cases and real data.
Redesigns stall in engineering when screens only cover the sunny-day path. Every flow here accounts for empty states, loading skeletons, permission tiers, validation errors and keyboard navigation, with tokens mapped 1:1 to your component props.
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“Cut front-end PR review churn in half and unified four feature squads onto one WCAG AA component library.”