01 Current
2022 — Present
Northlight
Senior Product Designer
Lead designer for the core platform team. Shipped a unified design system adopted across 12 product surfaces, cutting design-to-dev handoff time by 40%. Mentor two junior designers.
Your character standing in front of your own name in steel-gradient type. A marquee of your work slides past, About lights up word by word as you read, and your roles stack into a deck of cards.
Shown with a sample resume. Yours replaces it.
Design systems only work when the people using them do not have to think about them. I started out doing brand work and kept drifting toward the parts nobody wanted to own — the empty states, the error copy, the eighth screen in a flow. That turned into systems work, which is where I have stayed. Most of what I do now is making decisions once so that other people do not have to make them twelve times. A good system is not a library of components; it is an argument about what the product is, written down clearly enough that a team can disagree with it.
Design
Figma, Design Systems, Prototyping, User Research
Frontend
React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Tools
Framer, Notion, Linear
2022 — Present
Northlight
Senior Product Designer
Lead designer for the core platform team. Shipped a unified design system adopted across 12 product surfaces, cutting design-to-dev handoff time by 40%. Mentor two junior designers.
2019 — 2022
Fernway Labs
Product Designer
Designed onboarding and billing flows for a B2B SaaS product, contributing to a 25% lift in trial-to-paid conversion. Partnered closely with engineering on a component library used company-wide.
A component library and token set adopted by twelve product teams. Documented, versioned, and shipped with codemods so upgrades never blocked a release.
2021
Onboarding, rebuilt
Cut a nine-step signup to three by moving verification after first value. Trial-to-paid conversion rose 25% in the quarter that followed.
B.F.A. in Interaction Design
Rhode Island School of Design
Nielsen Norman UX Certification
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Best in Show, Interaction Design
RISD Senior Showcase
English
Spanish
Tell me what you are building
Seven years turning ambiguous problems into interfaces people can use without being taught. Currently building the system twelve product teams design against.
Open to Full-time, Contract and Speaking
maya.ellison@example.com