Maya Gao is a product designer at Cursor passionate about bringing clarity to technical complexities and building foundations for early stage products.
Previously she worked on software that balances learnability and flexibility in the realms of map design, internal operations, and programming.
Experience
Projects
GitHub Code Review
Rethinking code review for AI-generated changesAI in the Replit IDE
AI woven into tickets, branches, and inline code edits
The Retool IDE
Balancing learnability and power in app-building interfacesMapbox Studio
Visual tools for designing custom maps and spatial data
Writings
Reimagining the Retool IDE
A journey to bring big changes to life
Create intuitive interfaces for complex apps
Introducing the Sidebar Frame
Introducing Mapbox Dataset Editor
Creating & editing geospatial data in the browser