UX / UI Designer

Maria Gil

I design enterprise and CMS products — the complex, unglamorous systems thousands of people live inside every day — and make them feel quiet, considered and human.

Currently in Lima — working worldwide
Maria Gil, UX/UI designer, in her studio
10+ years

About Me

Designing the systems people depend on

I'm Maria — a UX/UI designer who loves the unglamorous seams of software: the admin panels, the publishing flows, the dashboards nobody retweets. For a decade I've helped enterprise and content teams turn sprawling tools into something calm and legible.

My work sits between research and craft — discovery that earns trust, systems that scale across teams, and the small, generous details that make a tool feel like it was made for the person using it.

— Maria

10+
years shaping enterprise & content tools
6
product teams on one shared design system
38%
faster publishing, Orchid CMS
∞
cold coffee, warm handoffs

Selected Work

Featured Case Studies

2020 — 2026
Orchid CMS

Orchid CMS

A content platform for 400+ editors. Reduced publishing time by 38% through a rethought authoring flow.

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Petal Design System

Petal Design System

Tokens, components and governance for six product teams, documented and adopted in one quarter.

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Nordica Logistics

Nordica Logistics

Field app for warehouse crews. Offline-first flows designed around gloves, noise and hurry.

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Atlas Research Ops

Atlas Research Ops

An end-to-end research practice: recruiting, synthesis and a shared insight library for stakeholders.

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Services

A small, deliberate set of things

  • End-to-End UX

    Discovery, research, IA, prototyping and validation — from fuzzy problem to shipped flow.

  • CMS & Content Platforms

    Authoring models, editorial workflows and admin interfaces that content teams actually enjoy.

  • Design Systems

    Token architecture, accessible components and the documentation that keeps them alive.

  • Enterprise Product Strategy

    Aligning messy internal tooling around one coherent, measurable experience roadmap.

In Their Own Words

What clients say

“She turned a decade of legacy admin screens into something our editors describe as calm. That word had never been used here before.”
Marta LindqvistHead of Content, Orchid
“Rigorous with research, generous with her thinking. Our engineers asked for her in every kickoff after the first one.”
Daniel OkaforVP Product, Nordica
“The design system she built is still the backbone of four products two years later. It just keeps holding up.”
Priya RamanEngineering Lead, Atlas