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head of design, something new 🚀. prev @tumblr @twitter @bumble . master of arts @ual .

rio de janeiro

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Joined April 2009

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Emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a 'natural order', must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable. — Mark Fisher

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This is still my favourite joke from The Good Place

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From now on, I’m sending this TikTok to anyone who asks me what NFTs are

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This photo has the power to destroy both cryptobros and JK Rowling 😌🙏

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I just wish people who work in tech would read more books about philosophy of technology and less books about productivity

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Your girl has been ✨ 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓭✨ You’re now looking at Bumble’s Head of Product Design 👁👄👁

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@MatthewKadish I’m not sure what’s more embarrassing: that you think women have to be sexy in movies, that you believe males are the only core audience of superhero movies (the split is almost 50/50), or that you don’t think any of these incredibly sexy actresses are sexy.

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@lexbyanyname you don’t need to go that far most americans would not survive living in the global south. there’s a resilience and community involved in thriving here that americans in general don’t possess

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Tech has a huge toxic positivity problem

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Mbappé, is the “advanced European football” in the room with us right now?

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I have no idea how to make friends. Not friends you see once a month, but friends that help you move; that come to your house just because they were in the neighbourhood. I gave that up when I moved countries, but it still hurts

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@IsadoraBasile @nicolekkkkkkk @arquimagra Todo cara de 38 que se interessa por mina de 17 vai ter algo errado com ele... 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Surreal to see myself on the homepage of the WSJ. Thanks to @DollyDeighton for reporting me joining Twitter!

Bumble’s Head of Product Design to Join Twitter

Lara Mendonça, known for designing with inclusion and safety in mind, will work to encourage meaningful and healthy interactions on the platform.

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Divulgada nova bandeira nacional após resultado das eleições http://t.co/xmSd0J9peQ

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we just changed the menu calm down

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Tumblr is rolling out a new web interface, and it looks a lot like X (formerly Twitter) by @aiishamalik1

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I only ask that people don't blame a designer for this. This label was (well) designed by my team a while back to show specific information about why someone was verified, and it has been botched to become the "official" label. Icon was different and copy was specific.

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Some real “my passion is graphic design” vibes for this checkmark rollout

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Sorry you can’t dance babygirl

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🎙️ Roy Keane: "I think it's disrespectful dancing like that every time they score. I don't mind the first jig, or whatever it was, for the first goal, but not every time. It's disrespectful. Even their manager gets involved. I don't like it." #BRA | #KOR | #FIFAWorldCup

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I never watch Apple events. I don’t need to, since you all share absolutely every detail of it like you are being paid to do it

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He’s what Harry Styles wishes he is

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I don't know why, but I get designers messaging me all the time with redesign concepts of Bumble, trying to land a job interview. Folks, this is not the way. It's in fact the opposite of the way.

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I'm really excited to announce I'll be joining @Automattic in June as a Design Director to lead... @Tumblr ! 😌🙏

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We are so excited to be welcoming @laraisuncool to the Automattic Design team, as Design Director for @Tumblr . Welcome, Lara!

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@luwanderlust @AlmeidaGui Uma a cada 35 pessoas no mundo é brasileira... não é ilusão, é real mesmo. Tem brasileiro em todo lugar.

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i really try not to engage with design discourse anymore, but some of you are seriously choosing to tell designers that if they can't find jobs in a fucking economic crisis, in a world that is falling apart, it's because they are shit at what they do? honestly fuck this

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@gaiofact eu estava lá ontem e posso dizer que foi a pior situação de calor que passei na vida a t4f precisa ser proibida de operar no brasil urgentemente

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I'm really excited to announce I'll be joining Twitter in June, to work under @joshuacharris ! ✨ Thank you so much to @halli for the DM that started everything, and @dantley for being so open and encouraging. 💛

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If the CEO leaves, he gets millions of dollars, but if I leave, I need to repay part of my sign-on bonus. That's capitalism, baby!

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Just signed a job offer 👀

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Someone posted the entire Communist manifesto on AO3 as a Marx/Engels fanfic God I love AO3

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My career enabled me to retire my parents and pay for their expenses, help my aunt, and give my sister and I a good life. I am “self-made” or whatever… iluntil a few years ago my family and I were very poor. But I would not be here if people didn’t take a chance on me.

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BJORK IS IN MY FLIGHT TO RIO THIS IS NOT A DRILL She smiled at me at Boots, we were both choosing snacks!!!

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My sexuality is this photo of Zendaya holding Tom Holland by the waist

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it happened to me, folks. so i'm looking for a new job as a design manager/director, or a staff product designer! i'm working from brazil, so it would have to be remote. please dm me or send an email to hi @laramendon .ca

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my salary history in the uk, a thread:

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This article by @uxmovement made me so mad I can't even choose a reply. This ridiculous discourse is why 70% of digital interfaces are not accessible. If your main concern is aesthetic, you are a bad designer. You are incompetent. The problem is you.

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The Aesthetic-Accessibility Paradox

Every interface has users that make up the majority and minority. The majority usually have normal vision, while the minority have some form of visual impairment. There’s a big difference between...

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@ceci_falconiere @DANILALONDERS They mean different things… Ship is any pairing you like OTP is your favourite

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I love how “design leaders” are still out there giving 101 advice and everyone is like wooooow

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Design isn’t how it looks, design is how it works.

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I get so mad when Europeans think stuff we do is disrespectful. Watch our championships. This is OUR CULTURE. It’s exactly what I criticise so much about the Global North. When your culture is hegemonic, you expect the world to imitate you. So yes, we’ll dance. Stay mad.

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Men’s skateboarding: 😌🤙 Women’s skateboarding: ✨🤘🥰🙏💖🥺🛹⭐️🤙🌈✨

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Oh haha so funny developers do real work and designers move pixels yes truly a groundbreaking joke and also hilarious only a white man could create something so funny and original

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Bumble added a hamburger menu to the app after I spent so long thinking of navigation while I worked there

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A reminder that working remotely is not the problem. Being stuck at home 24/7 in the middle of a pandemic is what's making everyone miserable.

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i found a job! my self-confidence was at an all-time low after everything, so i want to thank everyone who recommended me or sent me kind messages. one day i'll share what i learned with this experience. today all i can say is that you should follow your intuition.

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Just a reminder that Google reported almost $14 billion in profit in Q3 2022, a number consistent with previous quarters. Big tech chooses to do layoffs to sell this idea of focus and ruthlessness to investors. Usually, there’s little financial reason behind it.

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I got an offer for a job I’m excited about 👀✨

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@luvictoretti @lilianern @nathfinancas A própria Juliette já cansou de falar que foi criada sem acolhimento, então só sabe aconselhar mesmo quando não cabe. Ela já pediu desculpas por isso várias vezes. Mas as pessoas preferem ver egocentrismo nisso 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Design twitter, what are good design courses for senior designers/leader? I haven't used my 2020 training budget yet, so I need spend it before the year is over or I lose it!

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Yesterday I finally paid off my two loans after years of debt. Now I’m trying to save for a deposit to buy my parents a place in Portugal Normalise working class folks in tech

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Twitter day 1 ✅

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It's official!!! I am a master of the arts. I know the arts. Why, you ask? Oh, I mastered them. The arts have been mastered. By me.

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Something I'm really struggling with in remote working as someone with ADHD: The sheer amount of Slack messages, emails, meetings and other things I have to check, read, action on a daily basis. It makes me feel so incompetent when something falls through the cracks.

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@mikanarus I feel for you, but the US owns the entire world. Your election affects everyone. That's what Imperialism causes. So everyone is joking as a coping mechanism.

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✨I can't talk right now, I'm doing hot girl shit ✨ - Not being paid as much as men in my industry - Being considered distracting to men in my industry - Not being given credit over achievements like men in my industry

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Steve Jobs had many flaws, but he knew how to let design do its job. He knew how to wait for something great, instead of having something ok now.

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Stop listening to advice from people with generational wealth. You’re welcome

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Announcement time! 📢📢📢 After years of saying I would do it, I've decided to actually start my Youtube channel. I believe there's a lack of representation from design leadership creating unpaid content online, and I want to fix that. Follow me!

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When I’m sad about 2020, I just remind myself that on 1st January 2021 The Great Gatsby becomes public domain and someone out there will finally make it gay

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@VictorS62499724 @nytopinion False. His support is now barely 30%. Most of Brazil, therefore, dislikes Bolsonaro.

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What people don’t tell you about getting out of poverty: for a long time, you'll just be trying to catch up with what other people have always had, and that alone will be expensive.

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It’s insane that an industry that needs more professionals desperately is so hard to break into. The design industry is broken.

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Things that the series mention that became absolutely nothing: - Azor Ahai - Bran whispering to Ned (therefore being able to affect the past) - The Mad Queen - The Volanqar prophecy from the witch (who was she?) about Cersei’s death Like... wtf

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Hi friends! After a lot of consideration, I've decided to leave Twitter. As with anything else in my life, I'm sharing it with you ❤️ Twitter will always be a special place for me, and I'm confident that my dear tweeps will make it a wonderful corner of the internet. ✌️

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@ycontrol eu estou horrorizada

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@edriansantos_ @HenriqueLP03 @VirginAtlantic amor, o avião pousa em guarulhos, não no maranhão

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It’s hilarious how this is just a list of books I would suggest NOT reading

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72 Books that you should read to change your life: 1.

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Explaining to people what you do for a living when you are a product designer is extremely boring, and I refuse to do it

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First day working at Tumblr

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Officially a Master of Arts! I passed!

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i love figma, but its pivot from a design tool to a product tool is incredibly sad once again scale is going to destroy a beloved tool

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Design Twitter, who are the design leaders you follow that are not cishet white men? Mention them here, I want to see something

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Tapa na cara da sociedade http://t.co/Nsk2gRmn2l

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@ClarinhaTrinda1 @praytoldr @igiayedun Né? Se não tivesse usado a gente nem saberia disso tudo em tanto detalhe

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When I was at Twitter, some PMs would go into Figma and edit things, going over the designer's head. That's all I'm going to say about this label.

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Guess who got approved for their British citizenship 💅🥹

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What are the products you use the most, and that you actually like as a designer? I'll start: @Twitter and @Spotify

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For the people asking what to do instead if you're junior or didn't have opportunity to showcase your skills: 1. Use a fake brief (i.e. ) 2. Creat a small side projects 3. Design a unique CV or portfolio layout 4. Write a unique cover letter

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When I think Linkedin can't get worse, this happens

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Do designers know that @uxdesigncc is originally a Brazilian publication? I wish this community knew just how talented Brazilian designers are, and how much we have contributed to advancing the discipline historically

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This is the funniest thing I've ever read

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Whoever thought "let's add a cursor even though this dialog is from iOS, no one will notice" didn't know that designers will not only notice it, but they'll make it everyone's problem

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TIME's new cover: Facebook won't fix itself

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i don’t really know dylan, but i’m sad to see him block so many of us for doing what designers do well: look at a thing from many angles and empathize with the most vulnerable regardless of that, i really love figma, and i appreciate the figma team so much. that won’t change

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Grimes reading the Communist manifesto

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i graduated today 👀

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hArD tRuTh FoR dEsIgNeRs

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Not to brag too much, but this is mostly from a redesign done in 2020 by me and the super talented Amarindi 💛

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3 lessons from Bumble’s onboarding

An early activation and monetisation masterclass (or is it?)

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@craftybookworm @treblemaker909 @HobbitXiuh @justchillian_ Keanu is nice to everyone and donates most of his money. He’s the anti-Johnny Depp and that’s why I love him

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Today is my last day at Bumble! 🐝

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People in tech talk about how it's terrible to work for the tech giants, and I get why. But show me other companies that offer the same money and legitimise your CV like they do. These are the two things non-white, working class and/or immigrant designers need the most.

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Some big news from me: I am leaving Bumble in a couple of months! 😱 Building a team with people like @domingowiden1 @JellyIvy @HaisyDarding @_chhavii_ has been an amazing journey! This experience made me a better manager and designer, and it helped me grow a network here too

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Designing your own website is going to sleep thinking you designed the perfect representation of yourself and waking up to something you absolutely can't stand to look at

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@MendyHowe12 @simongerman600 Your perception of Brazilians is the problem, not us. We don't need to "integrate" to have a positive impact. We're a nation of over 220 million people, and most of us are great humans.

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“Do you see a lot of monkeys in Brazil?” “No, because I don’t live in the jungle! How dare you? This is a stereotype!” my window this morning:

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@milkjuus Reminds me of my resume from last year

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Being a designer is so extremly frustrating. Can someone suggest something less frustrating that I can do instead? I'm exhausted.

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This is the right way to do layoffs. It's also the first one that doesn't feel like an effort to flatten wages.

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A difficult update on our team - Work Life by Atlassian

Sharing the message we sent to our employees earlier today.

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lara mendonça 🇵🇸

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@KayFellowz Vaccinate your kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiids

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hi friends! i'm starting my new job today. for now it's in stealth mode, but i hope to share more soon!

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Me as a giant head in Times Square

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@laraisuncool

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When people think you'll make some sweet $$$ from equity from your previous job, and you have to tell them that your package was shit and you were naive 🤡 At least now I feel valued in comparison!

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