About

I build the parts of a
product you touch

I’m Mira Okafor, a design engineer based in Lisbon, PT. I spend my time where design decisions become real: components, interaction, motion, and the systems that keep a growing product coherent.

My background is half design, half frontend, and I’ve never found the line between them useful. The best interfaces I’ve worked on came from designing in the material — prototyping in code, feeling the latency, tuning the spring until it’s right.

Most of my work is as an embedded first design hire: ninety days to ship something real, build the smallest system that holds, and take one core flow all the way to measured.

hello@example.com — available for select projects from q1 2026.

Track

  1. 2022 — nowIndependent design engineerFirst design hire for early-stage product teams.
  2. 2019 — 2022Product designer, NorthwindDesign systems and the core editor for a B2B analytics product.
  3. 2017 — 2019Frontend developer, Studio MergeInteraction-heavy marketing sites and prototypes.