I've worked on mobile apps, marketplaces, and AI-powered tools — often starting from early ideas and helping shape them into real, shipped products.
My role usually sits close to product and engineering, where decisions are made and things move fast. I focus on making complex systems feel simple.
The range is pretty broad. I've worked on fashion e-commerce, AI for legal teams, travel apps, marketplaces, and design systems. Different problems, different constraints, but the same approach — understand the people using it and make it work for them.
Shared ownership.
I'm as comfortable leading projects solo as I am collaborating with a team, ensuring collective involvement at every stage.
I work fast, like really fast.
Quick iteration allows me to zoom through explorations until we arrive at something that feels just right.
I work in systems.
Whether it's a small feature or an entire design system, I create reusable components for the team.
Design is thinking.
Embracing an open-minded process, I readily discard concepts in favor of investigating diverse, innovative solutions.
Design for the ideal solution.
I advocate for conceiving the ultimate user experience without being restrained by current technical limitations, aiming to define what's possible.
AI design
From legal drafting tools to AI inside Slack — shaping how intelligence fits into real workflows.
Mobile native
Native iOS and Android at scale. Travel, discovery, and product-led mobile experiences.
Marketplaces
Buy and sell experiences that scale. Classifieds, fashion e‑commerce, and trust systems.
Design systems
Components, tokens, and patterns that keep product and brand consistent as teams ship.
01MANIFESTO
Design at the edge of art & intelligence
MAO is a personal brand built at the intersection of classical craft and modern technology — design, creation, and thinking in the age of AI.
The AI Renaissance is a belief: that we are living in a new golden age, where the tools of artificial intelligence don't replace human creativity — they amplify it into something never before possible.
This brand is a declaration. Of standards. Of taste. Of what it means to design with intention in an era of infinite generation.
READY TO COLLABORATE?
Let's make something great
I'm available for senior design leadership, brand identity work, and AI-native product design. Let's talk.