ABOUT ME, MIA
WHO AM I?Hype woman
I’m the personal cheerleader for my friends, fellow founders, and colleagues. I love to amp people up, give them advice, and come up with ideas to help them bring their dreams to life. I’m also a brand loyalist and evangelist. If I love your product or service, I will tell everyone I know (and even people I don’t) all about it.
Problem solver
I love to solve problems. I don’t believe in the status quo, and frankly, it bores me. 🥱 Some things are incredibly difficult and many things are extremely unlikely, but I don’t believe anything is entirely impossible. Can I teleport someday? MAYBE!! Let’s keep the hope alive and keep creating toward a better tomorrow.
"Besides being a fantastic designer, [Mia] really understands how to get into the mind of the end user - a rare trait."
"Besides being a fantastic designer, [Mia] really understands how to get into the mind of the end user - a rare trait."
MY COLORFUL CAREER
My first design team @ Salesforce
I was incredibly lucky to start my career as a UX Designer on the Community Cloud team at Salesforce. Highlights included:
⟡ Working with an awesome team
⟡ Traveling to Hyderabad, India to work in person with our development teams based there
⟡ Creating designs for Dreamforce for 2 consecutive years
⟡ Working with the legendary Neil Young
My entrepreneurship journey
At 23, I left Salesforce to pursue the challenge of revitalizing sexual and mental health care through my first startup, tabú. We all deserve to feel good—mentally, physically, spiritually, and otherwise. Whether it’s a product you’re using to streamline your workflow or an app to learn how to have healthier relationships, I believe that all meaningful products are built with empathy at their core. I am deeply grateful to have been featured in publications such as Forbes, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Women of Silicon Valley. Since tabú, I have launched a variety of other products in the consumer space and consulted with 50+ companies to bring their product visions to life.
“Davis’s mission is to open up the conversation and give people actionable solutions to address their needs.”
Resume
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Collaborated with founder and engineering team to shape product roadmap and feature prioritization.
Synthesized user research insights to inform product wireframes, brand positioning, and marketing strategy.
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Partnered with CEO to design and prototype core SaaS platform features and proprietary DEI hiring tools.
Defined user flows, optimized onboarding and marketplace interactions, and drove early product adoption strategy.
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Led product conceptualization and prototyping for a SaaS trading platform tailored to automotive dealers.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to launch a consumer-facing mobile app in under 3 months.
Crafted pitch deck to raise $4.85M seed round
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Designed core flows and information architecture for BlackRock’s first consumer financial management app.
Developed UX strategy for the BlackRock Educational Academy platform to improve user engagement.
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Leveraged Google’s Material Design to define patterns & create a component library.
Defined key features, including Kanban, table, and custom views for project management.
Designed proprietary change order workflow to streamline FDA approval process and the required sign-offs.
Collaborated in-office with the CEO & a Lead Engineer.
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Worked directly with the founders of dozens of startups to launch their MVP (included UX work, copywriting, strategy, and sometimes some social media/content support).
Over 50 projects to date.
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Led product design for 5 scrum teams across internal and external products
Owned Community Management and Moderation experiences (data viz, user mgmt, security tools)
Appointed lead designer for Dreamforce Community Cloud Keynote (2nd highest attended keynote at DF) for 2 years
Worked directly with Neil Young to create a concept for a music app (PonoMusic)
Promoted within first 6 months from Associate to Staff-level designer
Unofficial official “social chair” for my team
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Earned my Bachelor of Science in Science, Technology, and Society with a concentration in Product Design
Studied behavior design and took coursework in HCI
Heavily involved in on-campus design & social entrepreneurship scenes
Co-launched Stanford chapter of Compass Fellows, in partnership with Haas Center for Public Service.
Won first place in the People Power "SuRF" Developer Challenge. Presented as a poster at the 2011 Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference. Paper was accepted to the 2012 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority