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Versatile Design Leader | Accessibility Advocate | Mentor

I am a passionate and versatile designer with proven success leading design teams, building scalable design systems, and driving accessibility initiatives across global organizations. My career blends hands-on design expertise, leadership, and mentorship, resulting in tangible business outcomes and high-impact user experiences.

Currently leading UI Design at BigFix (HCLSoftware), where I:

Built and maintain a fully accessible design language and component library, raising accessibility standards and consistency across all products.
Lead and mentor a distributed team of 10 UI designers across multiple countries and product lines.
Established frameworks to improve design–development collaboration and ensure accessibility requirements are embedded into every stage of the process.

Core strengths:

Designing visually compelling, usable, and accessible interfaces backed by research, data, and design principles.
Shaping brand identities and ensuring cohesive user experiences across touchpoints.
Creating scalable design systems (design tokens, responsive patterns, guidelines) leveraged across teams for cross-platform consistency.
Applying front-end knowledge (including accessibility coding requirements) to accelerate agile development cycles.
Partnering daily with stakeholders — product managers, architects, and engineering leaders to align design with strategy.

Accessibility leadership:

Designed and delivered a company-wide accessibility training program for designers, developers, and testers.
Trained ~700 professionals to build products that meet international standards and ethical responsibilities.
Recognized for my ability to deliver results, I consistently earn Outstanding Performance evaluations. A collaborative team player at heart, I value feedback, thrive in dynamic environments, and take pride in getting things done with quality and purpose.

Isabella

Allow me to introduce myself: I am Isabella, and my pronouns are she/her. Within these pages, you’ll find a glimpse into the world of a design unicorn—otherwise known as a multidisciplinary designer.

Being versatile and embracing different disciplines is profoundly rooted in who I am, not only in what I do. I am tri-lingual, effortlessly switching between English, Danish and Italian, relentlessly curious, endlessly taking courses, participating in workshops and learning new disciplines, whether embarking a journey on business skills for designers or immersing myself in the fascinating world of martial arts.

I am a versatile designer, successfully and passionately navigate across various disciplines with purpose and expertise, uninterested in labels. My skillset spans across multiple domains of design:

Crafting visually attractive designs backed by design principles, solid research and data.
Applying usability and accessibility principles to all deliverables.
Shaping brand identities across various touchpoints for a delightful and consistent user experience.
Defining a design language, including an accessible component library, design tokens, usage guidelines and patterns, which is leveraged by other designers within my organisation to achieve cross-platform consistency.
Knowledge of front-end coding, including accessibility requirements, which is key to my efficiently working in a collaborative environment with developers, architects, product managers and other stakeholders.
This broad skillset enables me to lead the accessibility efforts within my organisation. I have built a complete training program, to equip teams of designers, developers and testers with the skills to build completely accessible products, for the sake of ethics as much as in accordance with international legal requirements.

A team player at heart, I value feedback and collaboration. I am lucky to work with some incredibly talented people, who I learn from every day and who know me as not only someone good as what she does, but also committed, reliable and accountable: I deliver quality work and respect deadlines. I am proud of having achieved significant milestones, earning “Outstanding Performance” evaluations in my yearly assessments.

Beyond my design endeavours, I am a passionate globetrotter and avid consumer of books from design related to spy stories. I practice martial arts and fencing, adore strawberries and prosecco and find solace in laughter.

Isabella