01 · featuredVisit
Loom AI Edit
Loom · 2024 · Lead designer
A one-click flow that trims silence, adds chapters and writes the summary. Nine million videos edited in the first quarter.
Product designAIMotion
Open to senior / staff roles from NovemberOakland, CAshe/her
Maya Okafor
Product designer & motion nerd. I make software feel like it was made by people.
Eight years designing across fintech and creator tools, most recently leading design for Loom’s recording experience. I sketch in Figma, prototype in code, and cut my own launch videos. Off the clock I run a small newsletter about interface motion and coach a youth robotics team in Oakland.
- LinkedIn@mayaokafor
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- X@mayamakes
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- Motion studies@mayamakes
- Newslettermayamakes.substack.com
- GitHub@mayaokafor
// 01 stack
Product designDesign systemsMotion designFigmaPrototyping in ReactAfter EffectsUser researchStorytellingFinal Cut Pro
// 02 selected work
02Visit
Sail motion guidelines
Stripe · 2021
The reference spec for easing, duration and choreography across Stripe products. Adopted by 30+ teams.
Design systemsDocumentation
03Visit
Interface Motion newsletter
Side project · ongoing
Bi-weekly breakdowns of great product motion. 12k subscribers.
WritingCommunity
04Source
react-choreo
Open source
A tiny React library for orchestrating staggered UI animations. 2.1k stars.
ReactOpen source
// 03 experience
- 2022 — PresentRemote
Lead Product Designer @ Loom
Own the end-to-end recording and editing experience across desktop and web.
- →Shipped the AI trim + chapters flow, lifting share rate by 23%
- →Built the motion language used across 40+ product surfaces
- →Grew and mentored a team of four designers
- 2019 — 2022San Francisco, CA
Senior Product Designer @ Stripe
Dashboard, onboarding and the first version of Stripe Apps.
- →Redesigned onboarding: activation +18% in six months
- →Co-authored the Sail design system’s motion guidelines
- 2016 — 2019San Francisco, CA
Product Designer @ Patreon
Creator tools and membership tiers.
- →Led the creator page redesign used by 200k creators
// 04 signal
★★★★★“Maya is the rare designer who can argue the strategy in the morning and hand you a production-ready prototype by the afternoon. Our activation numbers speak for themselves.”
★★★★★“She made our recording flow feel like magic. Customers literally email us about the animations.”
★★★★★“Clear, kind, fast. Best freelance collaboration we’ve had.”
// 05 gallery
