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