I'm Mira Vale, an independent product designer and educator. I help developer-tool teams ship clearer interfaces and teach engineers the craft behind them.
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Four recent projects, each with the problem, the process and what changed.
I work with two teams at a time, as a senior designer embedded with your engineers. Every engagement has a fixed scope and a fixed price.
Start a projectResearch, flows and high-fidelity interfaces for products that engineers and operators use all day. I prototype in code when a static mockup would hide the real behaviour.
An audit, a token architecture and a component kit your engineers will adopt, built on a real product screen rather than in a vacuum.
A private, two-day version of Interface Craft for your team, run in person in Europe or remotely, using screens from your own product.
A six-week live course in the details that make software feel considered. Live sessions, weekly group critique and a printed workbook, for engineers who ship UI and want to judge it with confidence.
Twelve years designing for engineers, first in-house and since 2022 on my own.
Essays and short notes on interface craft, design systems and teaching.
I work with a small number of teams each year on products where clarity is the feature. If that sounds like yours, tell me about it.