Giulia Pizzignacco
Senior Product Designer & UX Engineer 
I'm Giulia, a Senior Product Designer and UX Engineer with over 10 years 
of experience shipping products end-to-end: from early discovery and service design through UX, UI, and production front-end code.
My specialty is complex SaaS where clarity is the product. Dashboards, workflows, onboarding flows that users actually understand. I've also led branding, design systems, and product direction across teams, so I can hold the vision while getting hands dirty in the details.
More recently, I've been building AI skills into my practice, using tools like Claude Code and LLMs to accelerate design-to-code workflows and prototype faster.
I'm at my best when a product needs to go from messy to shipped, fast and done right. I partner with startups and established companies, whether that means working solo as a founding designer or embedding into an existing team, working closely with product, engineering, and stakeholders to move things forward. Based in Portugal 
, fully remote across Europe 
, and available to UK 
companies as a contractor.
What people say
Words from people I've worked with
If you want to know what great UX engineering looks like in practice, watch how Giulia works. She has an unusually sharp ability to hold the technical and the human side of a problem at the same time, building things that are well-crafted under the hood and genuinely intuitive for the people using them. She's also one of the most inventive communicators I've worked with.
- Name
- Andy Elmsley
- Role
- CTO
- Company
- Minviro
You've really taken us to that next level. And without you, I don't think we would be where we are today, certainly from that UI and UX perspective. So you've been an absolute asset. And I just want to say a massive thank you for all the hard work you've done.
- Name
- Dominic Gilbert
- Role
- COO
- Company
- Think Huge
What stood out to me from the start was her ability to think across all levels of design, from shaping big-picture concepts down to refining the smallest interaction details. She's a true team player, the kind of colleague you trust, learn from, and genuinely enjoy working with.
- Name
- Julia Miller
- Role
- Senior Product Engineer
- Company
- Minviro
Giulia has been such a joy to work with, always stepping up to any task with grace, enthusiasm, and zero hesitation. Her UX expertise has truly elevated XYCLE: she's refined and improved so many features across the product.
- Name
- Bertie O'Brien
- Role
- Senior Product Manager
- Company
- Minviro
Giulia is very proactive when it comes to responding to product feedback and makes a good distinction between what can be fixed right away as a quick-win versus what needs to be considered and analysed thoroughly.
- Name
- Kristian Dupont
- Role
- Principal Fullstack Engineer
- Company
- Minviro
Her unique ability to bridge the gap between design and development has greatly enhanced our projects, bringing a level of depth and technical excellence that is rare and highly valuable.
- Name
- Andrea Barracu
- Role
- Product Manager
- Company
- Think Huge
She wants to understand the context, the user problem and then workshop the best way to solve it. Giulia's active contribution to the team is both admirable and greatly appreciated. It keeps everyone motivated and in a good headspace.
- Name
- Rohin Shah
- Role
- Product Manager
- Company
- Minviro
