# Ashley Ma

> Principal UX Designer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ashleyma

Principal UX designer and design generalist with 14+ years of broad experience in holistic strategy, visual design systems, building 0-to-1 experiences, bringing clarity to complexity, and product development across consumer products, apps, websites, and HW/SW/service ecosystems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Netflix
Jan 2024 – Present

### Advisor @ Chewie Labs
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal UX Designer (Contract) @ Chewie Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Holistic UX and visual design across app, hardware, and packaging for Mill’s 0-to-1 and second generation product experiences.

### Lead Designer @ Designit
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Tokyo, Japan
UX design lead and project manager on a distributed team for international projects; research and strategy for alternative business models.

### Design Lead @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, CA
Visual design lead on AI UX, the UX team in Google Research. Collaborated with ML research teams to bring a multidisciplinary, human-first approach to advanced R&D programs, and delivered UX and product strategy for AI tools such as Coral. My team imagined and prototyped Magic Eraser; in 2021, it shipped as a key feature on Pixel 6.

### UX Lead (Rotation), Google.org @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA
Developed a structured program and process to provide design services to nonprofit grantees through Google volunteers, and worked directly with nonprofit partners.

### Senior Visual Designer @ Nest Labs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, CA
Led design on multiple cross-product feature launches across the Nest app and hardware ecosystem.

### Co-Founder @ curo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Co-founded a small collective of designers pushing ideas forward with a focus on inclusive medical products.

### Interaction Designer @ TEAGUE
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Seattle, WA
Concept realization, qualitative user research, and UX/UI for future-facing consumer products for clients such as Intel Labs, Microsoft, and GE.

### Visual/UX Designer @ Variate Labs
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater Los Angeles Area

### Interaction Design Intern @ Teague
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Seattle, WA

### Interaction Design Intern @ Smart Design
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011

### Design Intern @ Apple Inc.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010

### Visual Design Intern @ Empower MediaMarketing
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009

### Universal Healthcare Symbol Design Research @ Hablamos Juntos
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009

### Design Intern @ Crew Creative Advertising
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Design, Honors
University of Cincinnati


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashleytma

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Last updated: 2026-03-30