Olá, I'm Andreia Costa
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Olá, I'm Andreia Costa
I'm currently working at Cazoo on the search and browse user experience. Previously, I was working at Drover that has been acquired by Cazoo in January 2021.
View work experience"Rarely happy with a design deliverable which pushes everyone else to more iteration in order to make sure we did our best work at that time. Incredibly skilled at Figma."
"I think Andreia is great at decision making. She does a great work at gathering all necessary information (being it technical limitations, user testing outcomes) to come up with different solutions to solve specific problems.
"Andreia can be better at managing people expectations about the amount of work that she can take."
"I have no doubt you will complete what you said you would. On top of it, you would always go beyond expectations and explore more than I would expect."
"I love pairing with Andreia, she's not too judgy which makes me feel comfortable with her and I'm almost sure every other designer feels the same."
"Cares deeply about the customers needs and takes a data driven approach when thinking about solutions."
"I think she just needs to be more confident in her work. She's a great product designer who pushes for things to change everyday and all of her decisions are well thought and informed."
"Confident, collaborative, engaged with the team. Good instincts for experimentation and early validation of UX approaches. Speaks up and takes a position on points of discussion."
"Don't be afraid to push back if the slices are too small. Sometimes an experience has to be delivered in a slightly larger chunk and thats okay, you have the whole UX community here to help support."
"Always very clear and thorough in her communications. Is not one to back away from something even if it goes against the popular opinion."
"I wish she'd be more focused on trying to bring vision work to life, like the vehicle cards. I think you need to iterate less sometimes so you have more time to focus on that delivery."
"I feel that we still have significant gaps between Research, Discovery and Delivery. I think that Andreia can be a key person that will help us to achieve better coordination and alignment."
"I love Andreas no nonsense approach. Says it how she sees it. Will never shy away from an unpopular opinion if she feels it's valid. Andrea is very quick when exploring and iterating ideas."
"I feel you can be more outspoken on what you feel can be better at Cazoo in terms of product/website/UX."
"You can definitely persuade a room, but I feel sometimes you still rely on the rest of the team to back you up. You can totally do this alone."
"Andreia's confidence could lead her towards a role with more leadership responsibility, and I would recommend giving Andreia opportunities to present to senior stakeholders and to work on initiatives with strategic importance."
"I know it's hard, but stop thinking and doing work outside working hours. I know you love what you do but it's really important for your mental health not to do that."
"Saying no to some stuff and letting other people know you're not comfortable with doing a thousand things at the same time is also important. I think us designers need some "I'm bored" time to come up with ideas (good and bad) for the problems we know we have."
"Pragmatism, I believe is Andreia's biggest strength. She uses this to help the team to be in a position to make quick experiments that allow us to learn more on a specific topic."
"Very pragmatic and fast thinker, always open to give and receive feedback. Very meticulous with UI work and experienced enough with user research. She's great at balancing intuition and information. Great at structural thinking of how things relate to each other."
"I believe Andreia as a great visibility on the different initiatives and does a great job in adjusting the priorities as needed. She keeps a clear focus on how to keep moving forward with a product first mentality."
"Andreia is pragmatic and hard working, always very aware of the limitations of both tech team timings and what is worth investing time at Cazoo. Her work is always driven by past and current research."
"Andreia does a great job in keeping everyone on the loop considering the fast paced environment we experience and how quickly things tend to change."
"I really enjoy working with Andreia and I feel that others also do. I've always received great feedback from other team members, stating how easy it is to work with her and how available she always is."
"Andreia has been instrumental in helping my transition from engineer to designer."
"She was able to get up to speed with finance quotes very quickly, asking the right questions and making sure we present them well to the customer. Great combination of compliance & UX."
"You have great ideas and I agree with most of what you identify as pain points in Cazoo: let's focus that energy in helping build a plan to fix them."
"Trust your instincts, take breaks when you need them and continue to pursue excellence. I think you tend to pick up things more quickly than others, so bring them along when you can."
"She has been a big help in working on subscriptions usability research and is an amazing team player, willing to take the lead or follow someone else's as the situation requires."
"Very positive, happy to help and thinks about creative solutions. Always very fast to return with results!"
"Andreia is very good at coming up with design solutions quickly, being able to focus on multiple initiatives at the same time. Andreia has a solid long term vision of how our product can be improved, which is very valuable for the team as she is always sharing new ideas."
"Andreia understands well the engineering constraints that are posed, and provides alternatives to overcome them. It's very easy to discuss ideas with Andreia and she is always very keen to receive feedback."
"She moves and thinks very quickly and I like to work that way too."
"Andreia's strengths: Collaboration, listening to feedback, well organised."
"I know that management is not the core strength that Andreia loves but I believe she will be a great manager in the future."
"Andreia is super proactive, I have to say that from what I observe she's always pushing for improvements, looking for more information, and she has a great customer knowledge."
"From a content perspective, there have been a couple of times where Andreia has already written content suggestions for me to review, rather than me writing them from scratch, and it would have been better to have been involved in the task a bit earlier on."
"Andreia is super proactive and really considers every aspect/data when making decisions. I think one of her key strengths is asking the right questions because it shows how involved she is in the entire process and how she keeps the customer first."