Meet the Convivio team: Ángela Burón
Interaction Designer based in Brighton
Very important information about Angela
Favourite healthy meal and favourite treat
Tortilla! No, not tortilla wraps, I mean the potato and onion omelette. Perhaps not the most healthy meal with all those eggs, so add a rocket and tomato salad with mozzarella balls and olive oil.
One hobby you have and one you wish you had
I have lots of hobbies as I love to try new things but get bored quite easily. My main hobby is photo manipulation, but I wish I could sing! My hobby requires lots of tools, software, a desk… If I could sing, I could do it anywhere.
Favourite software you use at work and favourite software you use for fun
At work, I love creating interactive prototypes in Axure and sharing gifs on Slack. For fun, I spend many hours in Photoshop, it feels like virtual home to me.
Tea or coffee?
I think I’ve had three coffees in my entire life, I’m a tea person! Not really tea, chunks of ginger root in hot water is my favourite.
Working from home… in your pyjamas or in outdoor clothes?
I don’t like to wear tight trousers to be sitting down for hours, so usually pyjama bottoms and a shirt or jumper. Nobody knows how comfy I really am… Mwahaha!
What do you bring to the Convivio table?
My main role is to design the flows and functionality of the products and services we build, and generate prototypes that help the team validate ideas and propositions. I also assist the team with anything visual.
My background is quite colourful, from engineering to bakery. This gives me a different point of view when approaching a challenge and I think this is welcome by the team.
What‘s your favourite part of working at Convivio?
My favourite part is that Convivio is an ethical company. I also like that the company actually supports me to work however I want, providing office equipment that works for me, lots of freedom and trust!
And the biggest challenge?
It’s not always easy for me to work in a team where I’m the only non-native person. I’m used to not getting that reference from some 90’s tv commercial, but sometimes I wish I wasn’t the only one who doesn’t get it! I look forward to welcoming more international people as the team grows.
How do you feel about free range work?
It makes total sense. Not having to get into a crowded train every morning was to me the most obvious perk, but I also appreciate the control I have over my working environment and the flexibility to work the way that makes most sense to me. On top of that, my family live in another country and this working culture allows me to spend as much time with them as I like.
What are you reading/learning/exploring at the moment?
At work, I’m interested in coding, typography and content, so I’m taking courses on all three subjects. In my personal life, I’ve just bought a book called Personality disorders in modern life, by Theodore Millon. I find very interesting to think about psychology based on personality instead of behaviour, and I put it into practice as often as I can - the world is my laboratory for social experiments!
