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Available for Full-time and Contract
I make complicated products feel obvious.
I'm Maya 
. 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.
Most of what I do now is making decisions once so that other people do not have to make them twelve times.
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2022 — Present
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
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.
and some things I made
2023
Atlas Design System
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.
where I learned
B.F.A. in Interaction Design
Rhode Island School of Design
2015 — 2019
proof I did the reading
Nielsen Norman UX Certification
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a few nice moments
Best in Show, Interaction Design
RISD Senior Showcase
how I talk
English
Native
Spanish
Conversational
Seven years turning ambiguous problems into interfaces people can use without being taught. Currently building the system twelve product teams design against.
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Maya
Open to Full-time, Contract and Speaking.