UX Leader, Author, Researcher, and Founder of Velocity Ave
Challenging the status quo of how we understand people, solve problems, create value, develop products, and collaborate with partners.
SERVICES
Speaking
I love connecting with groups, sharing my experience and delving into important topics including influence, business impact, or creativity. Whether it’s for a small research team of 20 such as at Canva or whether it’s for a large UX organization like Google, I like to make my talks interactive and contextually relevant.
Research
My agency Velocity Ave specializes in desirability and experimentation to accelerate learning, with the goal of turning Minimum Viable Products into Minimum Lovable Products. Our mixed-methods approach helps you fall in love with the problem, not just the tech and solution.
Fractional Leadership
I’m available to advise startups that are just building out their UX function, whether it doesn’t yet exist or whether you have a small junior team that needs support. At this point, I’ve worked with over 100 products (yes, I know), including 56 in Google’s beloved incubator, Area 120, where I built and led the UX function.
Workshops
Most research engagements include a few workshops, but I can also facilitate one-offs to map assumptions, assess journeys, consider desirability, feasiblility plus viability, and much more.
“Maya has it all: research domain expertise, exceptional people management, a sharp eye for what makes products work, ability to lead at a program level, and superb collaboration skills. I’ve seen all of this demonstrated time and again across a wide range of products in the Area 120 portfolio. Maya is a star.”
— Elias Roman, VP of Product Management at Google Labs
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