Jan 1, 2025
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Interview
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6 minutes
Meet Christina — Product Designer at Rasa Design Team. With a solid foundation in graphic design, Christina brings a keen eye for detail and a passion for crafting seamless user experiences. Her mission? To design web and mobile applications that strike the perfect balance between functionality and aesthetics — ensuring every interface is both intuitive and visually captivating.
Let’s dive into her story and insights!
Sarvi: She's not that simple. Do not believe her. Could you introduce yourself and tell about your role on the Rasa Design Team?
Christina: Hi there. My name is Christina, and I am a professional pilot for our private jet at Rasa Design Team. Just kidding. I'm just a simple Product Designer, and I make sure that our products are easy to use and pleasant to look at.
Sarvi: Christina, if you weren't working as a Product Designer, what other career do you think you'd pursue?
Christina: I think what I love the most about my work is the process of creating something from nothing, because at the beginning, we only have this idea of something, and at the end, we have, like, this whole new product that people can use. So I guess it's the main, like core thing about this, this profession of mine, and if not product design, I guess I still wanted to create something just to experience this magic of bringing something new to life. It can be some like the creation of interior design pieces or maybe perfumes, I don't know.
Sarvi: Wow. Eau de perfume by Chris Zamriy. We are waiting for it.
Christina: It sounds like a label, yeah? Maison Zamriy. Who knows?
Sarvi: Okay, maybe one day I'll spray it on myself. What is your guilty pleasure?
Christina: At first, I wanted to say that I am a binge-watcher on Netflix, but I guess I am more of a Pinterest scroller. It's like kind of a guilty or a pleasure, because I do this all the time. I would just love to, like, dive into these beautiful pictures and save them to my little folders and just like, enjoy everything beautiful that people post there. But there's a I'd say, down side of this habit, because at the end, I just want to, like, switch everything on my wardrobe and to redecorate my whole apartment, because I just enjoy so much different, beautiful things that people post there. So yeah.
Sarvi: I feel your pain because I'm obsessed with Pinterest too. And just recently, I started to use Pinterest as my diary, and I just realized that I take photos almost every day, and no one sees them.
Christina: People should see them. It's actually a great idea. Yeah.
“I think what I love the most about my work is the process of creating something from nothing, because at the beginning, we only have this idea of something, and at the end, we have this whole new product that people can use.”
Sarvi: Can you share a favorite life hack that you swear by?
Christina: Okay, so my favorite live life hack is actually a phrase. It's “If it's not, hell yeah, then it's a no.” It's related to this, the world that we live in, like the constant consuming of things, and sometimes you just get lost in all those trends. And yeah, it helps me to listen to myself, to, like, understand if something resonates with me and my persona, I guess. And just to avoid some unnecessary buying, like shopping that I don't want to and every time I want to buy something, I think, is that “a hell yeah” for me, or it's just like something that I want to peacefully lay on my table just to look at it, although it doesn't apply to the Rhode lipstick, I'm obsessed. I have three already, and it's, I know it's not the final stuff.
Sarvi: I cannot buy it in Porto and it's just driving me crazy because I want to try it.
Christina: We will have this hint on Secret Santa.
Sarvi: Okay, Christina, I know you are quite the bookworm, so my question is, what are your top three book recommendations?
Christina: As a fellow bookworm to another, I know you're like the same as me in this at this point, I think I will recommend something that I recently read. It's a trilogy. Not by The Weeknd, because he's a singer, obviously. It's the trilogy by Simon Baker. I have the Ukrainian version of the first book from the trilogy. It's about the character. He has this specific job and uses it to solve crimes. It's a little bit of a trailer, but it's mostly a detective, and when you read the first one, you will definitely want to read the second and the third. I will tell you the name of the. First one. It's “The Chemistry of Death.”
Sarvi: I've already had it on my list because I spoke with you about book recommendations before. So yeah, thank you again!
Christina: I already switched to another book and it's like, I'm not used to this kind of storytelling and the characters aren't my soul mates.
