Me at the park, laying down in the grass listening to music and reading. I am wearing a red short sleeve shirt and dark sunglasses

Hola! I'm Monica 🌈

I currently design at GDS in London

For the last 10 years I’ve been designing digital products in Barcelona, Berlin, Melbourne and London.

Busy desk with paper, sticky notes and pens

Work 👩🏽‍💻

May 2022-Present • Government Digital Service (GDS)
London, UK

I am a Senior Interaction Designer at the Government Digital Service (GDS)

I spend these days designing new ways to navigate and publish on GOV.UK, the award-winning website for the UK government, based at the Government Digital Service.

GOV.UK↗
2019-Present • Wise
London, UK

I designed 'money without borders' at Wise (formerly TransferWise)TransferWise team zoom call

Fighting against the lack of transparency in the financial industry at Wise – making it easier and cheaper for people with international lives to move and manage their money, wherever they are.

Wise site↗
2016-2018 • Stax
Melbourne, Australia

I worked as a Product Designer at Staxstax team at office's rooftop

I spent almost three years down under solving technically complex and data heavy problems end to end at Stax. My work involved tons of dashboard and data visualisation design, and I also built the foundations of Stax’ design system.

Stax onboarding
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2015-2016 • N26
Berlin, Germany

I designed the first fully digital bank in Europe at N26N26 team photo

This was the first time I jumped into full product design, when the role wasn't a thing yet, and I fell in love with it. During my time at N26 I designed lots of features for the native and web apps.

Smart cards
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2013-2015 • Holy Hole Studio
Barcelona, Spain

I co-founded Holy Hole StudioMonica and Holy Hole co-founder posing at the studio store, a very kitsch design studio and store in Barcelona

I spent the most creative years of my career at Holy Hole, where I worked on all sorts of design projects – from graphic design, web design, photography and audiovisual projects for local customers to organising art exhibitions, making jewelry and selling zines and clothes.

Holy Hole ↗

Projects 🚀

Purple Design

A newsletter on diversity in Tech and Design.

💌 Purple Design↗

TravelViz

Data visualsation from my trip around SE Asia.

Travel Viz

Things I like 💖