Independent product designer · Lisbon

Mira
Okafor

I design the software that helps climate companies get from pilot to grid — dashboards, field tools and the products people actually use.

9 yrs
designing products, 5 of them independent
23
climate products shipped to market
€310M
raised by clients after launch

Lisbon, Portugal

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Hi, I'm Mira

I grew up between Lagos and Porto and spent four years leading design at a European energy-storage company before going independent in 2021. Today I partner with seed to Series B climate teams on the hard first versions of their products. I care about honest data, calm interfaces and software that field crews can use with gloves on.

Available from 3 November

One project slot open for Q4

Best for 8–16 week product engagements.

Tidewater

Volta Grid · Battery operations · 2025

−41% alert fatigue for control-room operators

A control-room dashboard for 40 grid-scale battery sites. We grouped thousands of raw cell alarms into a handful of actionable incidents, so operators see what needs a human and nothing else.
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Plot FH-0412 · verified

Fernhill

Canopy Ledger · Carbon verification · 2024

3× faster reforestation field audits

An offline-first field app for verifying reforestation plots in Brazil and Kenya. Auditors photograph, tag and sign off a plot in under ten minutes, even without signal.
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Kiln

Heatwise · Installer booking

+28% quote-to-install

A booking flow that turns a home survey into a fixed heat-pump quote in one visit.
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Drift

Saltline · Ocean plastic tracking

1,200 t recovered in year one

A live map that routes cleanup boats to drifting plastic using current and satellite data.
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Solace

Sunrank · Home solar onboarding · 2023

14 → 4 min from sign-up to first live reading

We replaced a 9-screen setup wizard with an inverter pairing flow that reads the serial from a photo. Support tickets in the first week dropped by more than half.
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Craft and tools

Disciplines · years

  • Product strategy9
  • Interaction design9
  • Design systems6
  • Data visualisation5

Tools · years

  • Figma8
  • Framer4
  • Observable & SQL3
  • Rive2

Right now

  • Mentoring the autumn cohort at Climatebase Fellowship
  • Writing “Designing for uncertain data”, a short field guide

Updated September 2026