Maya Gao is a product designer at GitHub passionate about bringing clarity to technical complexities and building foundations for early stage products.
Previously she worked on software that connect learnability and flexibility in the realms of map design, internal operations, and programming.
Experience
Projects
Foundational UI for AI integration
An early design system for AI integration throughout the Replit IDE.
The Retool IDE
Balance learnability & ergonomics for the core Retool editor.Retool Components API
Define components & layout primitives for internal software.
Mapbox Studio
Tools for designing custom maps & creating spatial data.
Writings
Reimagining the Retool IDE
August 17, 2023.A journey to bring big changes to life.
Create intuitive interfaces for complex apps
December 6, 2022.Introducing the Sidebar Frame.
Introducing Mapbox Dataset Editor
August 23, 2016.Creating & editing geospatial data in the browser.