Senior UX & Service Designer

Designing services people can trust.

I turn complex services into clear, evidence-led experiences — connecting customer needs, business outcomes and delivery reality.

8+years designing
3complex sectors

Selected case studies

Work with measurable outcomes

EE · Product Designer

Reducing roaming customer calls by 4%

Making roaming easier to understand before and after travel — from finding the right option to avoiding unexpected charges.

Booking.com · UX Designer, Payments

Making PayPal visible at checkout

A payments study on the car rental checkout of a high-traffic global platform — finding the right place for PayPal and testing it with real people and at scale.

Centro Auxilium · UX Designer

Making therapy easier to reach

Redesigning the website and booking app for an international psychotherapy centre in Rome — making it easier to find a therapist, book privately and continue care online or in person.

How I work

My design process

1

Discover

Understand the people, the product and the problem.

  • User research
  • Product analysis
  • Funnel assessment
2

Define

Turn insight into personas and testable hypotheses, and agree what to solve.

  • Personas
  • Testable hypotheses
  • Feature prioritisation
3

Develop

Sketch, prototype and test ideas quickly, before anyone writes code.

  • Sketching & wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • GOV.UK Prototype Kit
4

Deliver

Refine the design with engineering, launch it and keep iterating.

  • High-fidelity UI
  • Design systems & patterns
  • Handoff
  • Iteration

About Valeria

My work begins with a problem, not a screen.

I use a human-centred design approach to uncover customer needs, define opportunities, and create end-to-end product experiences. Through user research, prototyping, testing, and collaboration with product and engineering teams, I help bring ideas to life and deliver measurable outcomes.

Italian (native) · English · French

Illustrated portrait of Valeria Palma