Isabella Bonora

Product & UX Designer, bridging design and implementation with AI-native workflows and no-code.

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Selected Work

Experience

2023 to present
Product & UX Designer
CodicePlastico

Lead end-to-end product discovery for complex B2B and B2C platforms, turning ambiguous business requirements into testable prototypes. Integrate AI workflows (Claude, Gemini, Figma AI) to keep design and dev docs in sync, and work directly with developers to ensure smooth handoffs.

2025 to present
Founder & Community Organizer
Digital People

Founded and scaled a tech community of 0+ members, organizing monthly meetups and speaking on AI-native design at events like Product Heroes and XPUG.

2025 to present
Hackathon Facilitator
Sprintaly

Coach multidisciplinary teams through problem framing, Lean validation and rapid prototyping to deliver pitch-ready MVPs in 48 to 72 hour sprints, helping them turn complex ideas into investor-ready value propositions.

2021 to present
Product Designer & No-code Builder
Freelance

Launched multiple production-ready MVPs for early-stage startups, from problem validation and UX research through functional Bubble.io implementation. Long-term partner for a growing startup, evolving its MVP into a scaled platform.

2020 to 2021
Product Lead & Co-founder
Mimiroo, Startup Geeks Incubator

End-to-end development of an EdTech project: defined the business model and value proposition, ran competitor analysis, and built/tested a functional MVP in Bubble.io to validate core assumptions with real users.

Isabella speaking on Rethink UX at XPUG Trento

Education

UX / UI Design Master, Start2Impact University
2021 to 2022
MSc Management of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of Milan
2020 to 2022

Thesis: "User Experience in Early-Stage Startups: The Impact of Lean UX on Entrepreneurial Idea Development."

BSc Business Administration, University of Brescia
2017 to 2020

Thesis on Big Data analytics with Power BI.

Skills & Tools

Design
UX Research, User Journey & Flow, Wireframing & Prototyping, UI Design, Usability Testing
Strategy
As-is Analysis, Competitor Analysis, Market Research, Requirements Gathering
Facilitation
Co-design Workshops, Hackathon Facilitation
FigmaBubble.ioGithubFramerWhimsicalMiroNotionClaudeVS CodeMidjourneyWebflow

Off Duty

Outside of product work, I'm usually on a yoga mat, out for a run, slowly, but consistently, or in the kitchen attempting a pizza that doesn't always come out right. I also spend a lot of time with the Digital People community I founded, meeting up in person and talking AI-native design at local events.

Isabella speaking at a tech community event Isabella facilitating a community event Digital People community meetup Isabella off duty