Maria Ionova
Senior Product Designer at Tallwave
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria Ionova is a senior product designer with nine years of experience crafting user-focused, accessible digital experiences and design systems for healthcare, government, and agency clients. Based in Scottsdale, she blends pixel-perfect visual design with practical front-end coding skills—often collaborating closely with developers and even implementing responsive sites herself. At Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona she led rapid, large-scale projects (120+ screens in 6 weeks), launched mobile app flows, and initiated design system standards used across teams. Now at Tallwave she shapes customer-centered product strategy and end-to-end design for digital products. Maria’s background spans print, brand, and web, giving her a rare cross-disciplinary fluency that improves handoffs and speeds delivery. Currently upskilling with MIT’s MERN full-stack certificate, she uniquely bridges design and engineering to ship polished, usable interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
Professional Certificate in Coding: Full Stack Development with MERN (in progress), Professional Certificate in Coding: Full Stack Development with MERN (in progress) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science in Design, Visual Communication, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science in Design, Visual Communication, Magna Cum Laude at Arizona State UniversityAAS in Computer Information Systems, Graduated with Distinction, AAS in Computer Information Systems, Graduated with Distinction at Mesa Community CollegeUX/UI Design, UX/UI Design at Bloc
Russian, English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (6)
displays6
javascript6
css3
react3
user-friendly2
pagination2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mionova/new-repo
May 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
checkpoint
mionova/100DaysOfCode-Challenge
May 2021 - Oct 2021
JavaScript practice
Contributions:85 commits, 3 PRs, 141 pushes in 4 months
javascriptpractice-javascript
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