PRODUCT DESIGNER
I design how new technology behaves around people.
More than a decade making difficult software make sense. Real-time 3D at Autodesk, spatial computing at Unity, decentralised storage at Pinata. I work in the codebase, not just the mockup.
Hi, I'm Mariana , a product designer based in London . For more than a decade I've designed software before its patterns existed: real-time 3D at Autodesk , spatial computing at Unity , decentralised storage at Pinata . Now I design AI agents people can actually trust, and I build them in the codebase . Away from the screen I take photographs and fall down rabbit holes .
SELECTED WORK
06 PROJECTS
ClawCraft
01
A managed AI agent you run by talking to it
Keylark
02
Designing an AI that leases apartments without losing the landlord's trust
Autodesk
03
Making a node-based material editor easy to start for a new wave of artists
Librestream
04
Turning recorded field-service calls into something a manager can act on
Pinata
05
Cutting support tickets 60% on a product its users had outgrown
Unity for Humanity Summit
06
Unity's first virtual conference for social impact, designed in two and a half weeks
LAB
02 EXPERIMENTS
Self-initiated work, made to find out whether something would hold up. No brief, no client, and nothing to protect. This is where the writing and the art direction live.
Earlier work
Projects I have not written up in full. Some predate the work above, some never had assets worth keeping. Listed for scope, with a number where there is one worth stating.
SENTIENT FUTURES
2026
Ideosphere: forecasting what prediction markets overlook
Built with Rei Nova and Niki Dupuis in the Sentient Futures incubator. AI agents set baseline forecasts on neglected questions, like AI moral status, digital minds and animal welfare, and human forecasters compete against them. The disagreement becomes calibrated signal for researchers, policymakers and funders. The alpha is live.
SEE IT ON SENTIENT FUTURES ↗FLOAT HUB
Launching a London float centre from a logo and a lease
Brand, site and art direction for a sensory-deprivation spa, at the marketing agency I co-founded. It opened with more than 200% of its founding-membership goal within two months, and reached number one of 800+ London spas on TripAdvisor within three.
AXIOM ZEN
2016
A shared room in VR
Built in Unity for Google Cardboard, running on both Android and iPhone. A shared virtual room where people could watch exclusive content with friends, from wherever they actually were. Mobile VR in 2016 meant every frame was a budget negotiation.