Product designer · Manila
I untangle complex products for a living (and yarn, for fun).
Hi, I'm Mara. I design the hard parts of banking, insurance and internal tools: the flows, the systems, and the meetings where nobody agrees yet.
Recent work
Things I've shipped
(and untangled) lately
Projects where the problem was messier than the brief, and what I did about it.
How I work
What you get when
you work with me
Complex flows, made calm
Multi-step, multi-platform, multi-stakeholder. I map every edge case so customers never have to see them.
Systems that scale
From a single component to a token architecture in 18 markets, I design so the next team builds faster.
Ambiguity to alignment
I bring proposals to leadership, run the workshops, and get product, tech and business agreeing on what ships.
About me
The human behind
the flows
Hi, that's me!Clarity matters more than cleverness, and decisions need to ship.
I started out building components as a junior designer on an insurance design system. A few rotations later I came back with fresh eyes, pitched an overhaul to leadership, and helped turn it into a system that now runs in 18 markets. That's roughly how I like to work: notice the knot, then go untie it.
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Knitting
Untangling, but with yarn.
Good food
Tonkotsu ramen, always.
My cat
Khaokhao, head of QA.
Kind words
Nice things people
have said
“Mara is amazing. Her ability to take the broad requirements and create the output with us just having to make minor changes.”
“Your skills as an experience designer are very strong, especially in your attention to detail when working through UX/UI screen flows across platforms.”
“She has proactively looked for smarter solutions, shared assets across the team and worked through complex client situations.”
Got something
complicated?
That's my favorite kind of problem. Hand it over.
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