Miru Alves
Staff Product Designer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMiru Alves is a Staff Product Designer with eight years of experience turning complex systems into clear, usable products, currently shaping experiences at Shopify from Ottawa. She blends a systems-thinking approach with fast-paced newsroom-honed skills in data visualization and interactive graphics developed earlier in her career at UOL and Editora Abril. Comfortable across product teams, she emphasizes collaborative decision-making and continuous learning to simplify edge cases without sacrificing detail. Trained in Interactive Digital Design and Graphic Design, she pairs visual craft with UX rigor to make data-driven interfaces approachable. Notably, her background producing rapid, high-quality visual work for breaking news informs a talent for shipping polished designs under tight timelines.
7 years of coding experience
Mackenzie Presbyterian UniversityInteractive, Digital Design, Interactive, Digital Design at Vancouver Film School
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (14)
figma-plugin10
typescript10
design-tokens10
component-library10
vscode-extension10
shopify10
react10
react-native-components6
compose6
visualization4
react-native4
data-visualization3
polaris1
svgr1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nairim/hello-world
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
My first repository
Contributions:10 PRs, 7 pushes, 9 branches in 1 day
pythonfirst-repository
mirualves/mirualves.github.io
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 days
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