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title: Marina Costa — product designer
description: Eight years designing tools teams use all day. Now at Cobrali, before at Visitaê and Levaki.
image: /demo/layout/work-3.svg
```

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**Marina Costa**
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- [Work](#trabalho)
- [Experience](#experiencia)
- [Writing](#escrita)
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[Get in touch](#contato)
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# I design tools teams use all day.

Eight years in product, now leading design at **Cobrali**. I like systems, beautiful spreadsheets and taking clicks out of the way of people at work.

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[See the work](#trabalho)
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[CV as PDF](#contato)
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![Portrait of Marina](/demo/layout/person-4.svg)
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### 8
years in product
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### 40+
launches
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### 3
design systems from scratch
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## Selected work {#trabalho}

Three projects, from a design system to a billing dashboard. Each moved a number the team looked at every week.
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![Cobrali, the billing dashboard](/demo/layout/work-3.svg)
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### Cobrali · Billing that explains itself
2024 · design lead

I redesigned the billing dashboard of 30,000 small businesses. Support calls about "why didn't my customer pay" halved in three months.

[Read the case study](./cobrali)
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![Visitaê, the viewing calendar](/demo/layout/work-2.svg)
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### Visitaê · A viewing calendar
2022 · product design

A calendar the agent and the buyer edit together. Rescheduled viewings fell from 38% to 11%.
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![Levaki, the design system](/demo/layout/work-5.svg)
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### Levaki · One system for seven countries
2020 · design system

180 components, tokens per country, and documentation engineers opened because they wanted to.
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## Other projects

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![Poster](/demo/layout/work-1.svg)
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**Design Week posters**
Identity for the 2023 event.
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![Type](/demo/layout/work-6.svg)
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**A typeface for numbers**
Tabular figures for dashboards.
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![Grid](/demo/layout/work-4.svg)
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**Icon grid**
240 icons at 20 px, open source.
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## Experience {#experiencia}

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**2023 — now**
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**Head of design, Cobrali** — a team of six designers; payments and billing for small businesses.
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**2020 — 2023**
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**Senior product designer, Visitaê** — viewings, offers and the agent's app.
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**2017 — 2020**
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**Systems designer, Levaki** — the design system that served seven countries.
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## Writing {#escrita}

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### Spreadsheets are interfaces
Why I start every dashboard in a spreadsheet, and what it teaches that Figma hides.
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### The button nobody clicked
An A/B test we lost, and what we learned about trust.
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### Tokens without pain
How seven countries used one system without becoming seven systems.
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## Shall we talk? {#contato}

I take one consulting project a quarter. The next one starts in January.

```@countdown to:2027-01-11T09:00-03:00 show:days label:"The next consulting slot opens in" done:"The January slot is taken. The next one opens in April."
```

```@contact name:"Marina Costa" role:"Product designer" email:marina@example.com site:https://www.linkedin.com address:"São Paulo — I work remotely"
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**Marina Costa** — São Paulo. A flows.md example: people, companies and numbers are fictional, and the whole page is markdown.

`languages`
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**Here**
- [Work](#trabalho)
- [Experience](#experiencia)
- [Writing](#escrita)
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**flows.md**
- [Showcase](/@docs/showcase)
- [Components](/@docs/componentes)
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