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Yumi Tanimoto is a seasoned designer with 10+ years of experience in web design, UI/UX, and graphic design. She has worked with various clients and companies, including CodeLeap, White Prompt, Apple Developer Academy PUCPR, Pixelwolf, CINQ Technologies, Signo Web, and Heavy Marketing & Design. Yumi holds a degree in Graphic Design from Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná and a Técnico Integrado ao Ensino Médio in Informática from Instituto Federal do Paraná.

Credentials

  • Information Architecture: from Research to Handoff
    UX Change Academy
    Jun, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Analytics and UX
    UX Change Academy
    Apr, 2020
    - Apr, 2026

Experience

  • CodeLeap
    • United Kingdom
    • Head of Design
      • Sep 2023 - Present
      • United Kingdom

  • White Prompt
    • United States
    • Senior Product Designer
      • Jul 2021 - Jul 2023
      • United States

      Worked as a part of the White Prompt design team, my responsibilities include:- Holistic vision: Designed features from end to end including research, ideation, information architecture, drawing flows, user interface, and high-fidelity prototyping across a multiple-faced platform.- Strategy: Participated closely in the project strategy creation and scope, helping the product and engineering team visualize and define the sprint's next steps assertively.- User focused process: Proposed improvements after conducting moderated user testing sessions and analyzing hotjar insights from screen recording.- Documenting and organizing: Crafted figma component libraries to be used across multiple products and organizational formats, providing a design environment friendly and easy to understand to new designers and non-designers teammates.- Flexibility: Helped the team with what was needed at the time other than designing, such as doing QA and writing stories.

  • Apple Developer Academy PUCPR
    • Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
    • Design Mentor
      • Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
      • Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

      After being a student in this program, I received the offer to be a mentor at the Academy due to my excellent performance and significant participation. I had the pleasure to contribute as an instructor for small teams formed from a 25 multidisciplinary students class. Being in a very open and flexible environment, I could assist them in a number of matters and exercise a range of skills:- Design: Shared my technical knowledge about UI, UX and a variety of processes that are used in the professional field. Since these were freshman students, it is very useful to share practical experiences.- Soft skills: Helped students on improving communication and group work dynamics, proposing exercises and solutions to solve conflicts with other students. Also assisted them to keep track of their learning journey, giving support and encouragement.- Educational experience: Worked closely with other mentors to create and present activities, dynamics, materials and other experiences to drive students through the two-year program, acting as a valuable member while building the selection process as well.

  • Pixelwolf
    • Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
    • UI and UX Designer
      • Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
      • Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

      Worked at Pixel as an UI and UX designer with a wide variety of customers, allowing a significantly different experience with each new project. These projects include: E-commerce in various segments, native applications, hybrid applications, institutional websites, among other digital products. Being a consultancy agency, I also had experience in the following activities:- Client communication: Worked closely with clients collecting briefings, participating in scope definitions, making presentations on various stages of the project, from information architecture to high-fi mockups.- Design governance: Planned and executed organizing and documenting strategies with other teammates, providing a healthy and productive design environment.

  • Apple Developer Academy PUCPR
    • Curitiba e Região, Brasil
    • Design and iOS scholarship
      • Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
      • Curitiba e Região, Brasil

      After being selected for the prestigious Apple scholarship, I created iOS products using Challenge Based Learning, applying user interface knowledge and exploring all the processes involving launching a digital product from ideation to publishing it on the AppStore.- Self-driven learning journey: Proposed a study plan focused on learning and deepening my knowledge of the UI and UX fields, always proactive in trying new things and searching for the solutions myself.- Practical experience: Extracted all the potential from the CBL methodology applying every new knowledge in projects to solve real world problems, having ht opportunity to learn to try, fail and propose new solutions.- Collaboration: Worked with multidisciplinary teams, experimenting with project methodologies, self-managing and knowledge sharing. Improved soft skills, communication and feedback techniques.

  • CINQ Technologies
    • Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
    • Web Designer
      • Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
      • Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

      his was a short but valuable experience. At CINQ, I worked as a web designer, creating the interface for applications and clients' websites. I worked in multidisciplinary teams with front-end and back-end developers, analysts, managers, and testers. We used the Scrum agile methodology with daily ceremonies, planning, and other meetings.This work taught me to improve my communication with people from other areas and to present to them how our work would complement each other to create the final product.

  • Signo Web
    • Curitiba e Região, Brasil
    • Web Design Intern
      • Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
      • Curitiba e Região, Brasil

      At Signo I played the role of Web designer, creating layouts for clients' web pages, and later, their HTML and CSS with the support of a front-end coworker.It was a challenging and interesting internship because I started with zero experience in front-end and after a year, I was able to end my cycle with enough knowledge to create the HTML and CSS of a responsive website from the beginning, using Sass.

  • Heavy Marketing & Design
    • Curitiba e Região, Brasil
    • Graphic Design Intern
      • May 2017 - Dec 2017
      • Curitiba e Região, Brasil

      In this design and marketing agency, I worked with a small team of designers creating visual identities, social media, brand manuals, and other types of materials related to branding in general for local clients.

Education

  • 2015 - 2019
    Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
    Graduação, Graphic Design
  • 2012 - 2014
    Instituto Federal do Paraná
    Técnico Integrado ao Ensino Médio, Informática

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