I’m Rafaela Ferro, frontend developer & designer. Currently living in Coimbra, Portugal and working at SingleStore.
A list of incredible women-led businesses across art, design, fashion, and more—discover and support their work.
12 Mar 2025 ● 4 min read
How to add alternative text to thousands of images on a massive website when doing it manually isn’t an option?
30 Jan 2025 ● 6 min read
Step by step tutorial for implementing a glitch animation, with a reusable React component and SCSS animation.
29 Oct 2024 ● 11 min read
In this part, the honorable mentions go to Invisible Women and the collection of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.
17 Oct 2024 ● 10 min read
The marathon day, last weeks of training, plus a few notes about the costs of this experiment and how my body adapted while preparing for a marathon.
19 September 2024 ● 7 min read
Twenty weeks of training for a marathon: my first running injury and participating in half marathon events.
10 June 2024 ● 6 min read
An unexpected week off from training, my first half-marathon, and a short Q&A.
19 Apr 2024 ● 6 min read
My first physiotherapy session, adjustments to my training plan, and first 10km running event.
11 Mar 2024 ● 5 min read
In 2023, I read more books in a year than ever before. The main reason my reading habits finally picked up was getting myself...
29 Feb 2024 ● 10 min read
My running background, plan and goals, and a recap of milestones and struggles after the first month of training.
10 Feb 2024 ● 6 min read
Summer is coming and with it the internships season.
2 May 2020 ● 7 min read
February 2019 ● 3 min read
3 May 2018 ● 11 min read
31 January 2018 ● 7 min read
A music calendar curated by strangers.
Artificial inteligence conferece I co-organized.
Design Meetup in Coimbra I co-organize.
Photographic journal of trips around the world.
Deemaze's Open Device Lab platform design.
Why we need to stop avoiding accessibility and how to start integrating an empathy-driven process in software teams. In these sessions, we look at actionable low-cost tips, tricks, and best practices to make our digital products more inclusive, without jeopardizing roadmaps and budgets.
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Hands-on building a React component end-to-end, from the UI design to automated testing.
Build components and layouts leveraging some of the best features of CSS Grid.
Department of Informatics Engineering — University of Coimbra
March 2018Introduction to typography concepts and best practices, with a hands-on exercise on Adobe InDesign.