Hello, I'm Teodora!
A Product Designer making sense of complex challenges
I've spent 7 years turning "this is complicated" into "oh, that makes sense!" and honestly? That's my favorite part. I'm all about clarity, accessibility, and design systems that make the complex feel simple.
How I approach design
Design is a loop, not a line. I move fluidly between understanding problems, building solutions, and learning from real users. Each cycle reveals something new. Each iteration gets closer to the answer. That's how great products are born.
Understand deeply
Research, strategy, and empathy to uncover what users actually need
Build once, scale infinitely
Scalable systems and cross-functional collaboration to ship with confidence
Ship, test, iterate
Post-launch testing and iteration as the best insights come from real users
Building a Scalable Design System
Inconsistent UI across teams caused design debt, slower development, and poor accessibility.
Researched and proposed a token-based, accessible design system with team alignment.
Created a scalable Figma library, clear standards, and a blueprint for future implementation.
Designing a Data Grid System That Actually Works
Fifteen different table implementations. Twenty-three unique interaction patterns.
Users who couldn't predict how basic features would behave.
A unified data grid framework that brought consistency to a fragmented product suite and got adopted across 8 products in 6 months.
Redesigning a Research Repository
One feature set serving three different user needs. Power users building workarounds instead of using the UI.
Redesigned features reducing support tickets and allowing proper academic citation.
