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Digital Product Design
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What would you like to create?
Are you studying Communication Design or Multimedia and want to take the next step into Product Design?
Do you work in UX/UI and want to develop your skills in digital product strategy and development?
Do you already have experience in digital design and want to learn how to create and work with Design Systems?
Do you want to explore the use of artificial intelligence in the design process, without compromising your own judgement?
Do you want to develop a digital product project and build an interactive prototype in Figma?
What you’ll learn to do?
Align user needs with business objectives and metrics to inform product decisions
Create and implement Design Systems, working with components, patterns and tokens
Structure consistent design systems that are ready to scale alongside products and teams
Explore the use of artificial intelligence at different stages of the design process, assessing its possibilities and limitations
Create an interactive prototype in Figma based on a Design System
Justify and present your product decisions clearly
What are you going to explore?
Product strategy: the relationship between user needs, business objectives, metrics and product management
Design Systems: components, patterns, tokens and consistency across products
Design Systems in practice: documentation, DesignOps, scalability and cross-team collaboration
AI in the design process: research, ideation, interface generation and documentation, exploring possibilities, limitations and the importance of human judgement
From Design System to prototype: building an interactive prototype in Figma using the components and patterns developed
Final project: consolidation and presentation of the prototype, with reflection on the product decisions made throughout the course
Who will you be learning from
Helena Isabel Alves da Silva is from Porto and has been a designer for around 10 years, four of which have been spent in digital product design. She began her training in art and design at the age of 16 at the Soares dos Reis Art School, and graduated with a degree in Communication Design from ESAD Matosinhos in 2016. She specialised in UX and UI and completed a Master’s degree in User Experience Design at BAU in Barcelona. She has worked with national and international companies and projects, primarily on SaaS products, overseeing the process from research through to launch.
She leads Friends of Figma Porto, where she coordinates events and the community’s strategy. In recent years, she has led masterclasses, facilitated product design workshops and acted as a mentor at various events, including the European Innovation Academy in 2026. She is also a UX mentor at Uxcel, where she provides guidance and feedback to designers at the start of their careers.
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