UX Designer · Product Strategist · Berlin

Maya
Rivera.

I design digital products that feel effortless — turning messy problems into interfaces people actually enjoy using.

8+ Years experience
40+ Products shipped
12 Design awards
9.4
UX ScoreTop 5% usability
★
Trusted by 40+ teamsStartups to enterprise

About me

Design is how it
works, not just
how it looks.

I'm Maya, a UX designer with 8 years of experience helping startups and established teams ship products that feel obvious in hindsight.

My process is equal parts research and making — talking to real users, mapping the mess, then iterating in the open until the flow disappears and only the outcome remains.

When I'm not pushing pixels, I'm mentoring junior designers, collecting mid-century posters, and hunting for the best flat white in Berlin.

Maya Rivera UX Designer & Product Strategist

Trusted by teams at

Northwind
Lumen
Vertex
Aster
Kite
Mono

Kind words

What collaborators say.

Maya took a tangled onboarding flow and made it feel like a single, obvious step. Activation jumped 34% in the first month. She's the rare designer who thinks in systems and ships with the team.
Jonas Lindqvist Head of Product, Northwind
She asks the questions nobody else thinks to ask, then turns the answers into interfaces that just make sense. Our support tickets dropped by half after the redesign — and the team actually enjoyed the process.
Sarah Aoki Founder & CEO, Lumen Health
The design system Maya built is still the backbone of our product two years later. She documents like a dream, mentors the team, and somehow makes complex trade-offs feel simple.
Daniel Kim VP Engineering, Kite Studio

Get in touch

Have a project
in mind?

Tell me a little about what you're building and where you're stuck. I'll get back to you within two working days.

Booking new projects for Q1 2027

I usually reply within 2 working days. No spam, ever.