1) HEADLINE OPTIONS • Freelance UX designer helping early-stage SaaS founders build products new users understand on day one • UX designer for SaaS founders | 8 years, 40 product teams, a checkout cut from 6 steps to 3 • Portland-based UX designer turning early-stage SaaS products into clear first-day experiences 2) SHORT BIO Maya Chen is a freelance UX designer in Portland, Oregon, who helps early-stage SaaS founders build products new users understand on day one. In 8 years of UX design, she has worked with 40 product teams and led a checkout redesign that cut checkout from 6 steps to 3. 3) MEDIUM BIO Maya Chen is a freelance UX designer based in Portland, Oregon. She helps early-stage SaaS founders shape products that new users understand on day one. Over 8 years in UX design, Maya has worked with 40 product teams. For an outdoor gear retailer, she led a checkout redesign that cut checkout from 6 steps to 3. Before going freelance, she was a senior designer at Fieldnote Software, and she holds the Google UX Design Certificate. Maya starts every project with a pencil, sketching first ideas on paper before she opens a design tool. 4) LONG BIO Maya Chen is a freelance UX designer in Portland, Oregon, who helps early-stage SaaS founders build products that new users understand on day one. For a young SaaS company, the first day matters: a new user who cannot find the next step may not come back. Maya focuses on that first experience, looking for the moments where new users hesitate and redesigning those moments so the next step feels obvious. Over 8 years in UX design, Maya has worked with 40 product teams. For an outdoor gear retailer, she led a checkout redesign that cut checkout from 6 steps to 3, removing half of the steps a shopper had to get through before paying. Before going freelance, she was a senior designer at Fieldnote Software. She also holds the Google UX Design Certificate. Today she works directly with founders, which means the person who decides on the product hears the design reasoning first-hand. One habit has stayed with her through every project. Maya sketches every first idea on paper before she opens a design tool, so the first drafts stay quick, rough, and easy to change. 5) FIRST-PERSON BIO I'm Maya Chen, a freelance UX designer in Portland, Oregon. I help early-stage SaaS founders build products that new users understand on day one. Over 8 years in UX design, I've worked with 40 product teams. One project I often mention is a checkout redesign for an outdoor gear retailer, where I led the work that cut checkout from 6 steps to 3. Before freelancing, I was a senior designer at Fieldnote Software, and I hold the Google UX Design Certificate. I still sketch every first idea on paper before I open a design tool. If your product works but new users still get lost in the first few minutes, I'd like to hear about it. Book a free 20-minute intro call at mayachen.design. 6) SOCIAL PROFILE BIOS • Instagram: Freelance UX designer in Portland. I help SaaS founders build products new users get on day one. Free 20-min intro call: mayachen.design • X: UX designer for early-stage SaaS founders. 8 years, 40 product teams, one checkout cut from 6 steps to 3. Paper sketches first. Intro calls at mayachen.design • TikTok: UX designer for SaaS founders. Paper sketches first. mayachen.design 7) HOST INTRODUCTION Our next speaker spends her days making software easier to understand on day one. She is a freelance UX designer from Portland who works with early-stage SaaS founders. Over 8 years, she has worked with 40 product teams, and she led a checkout redesign for an outdoor gear retailer that cut checkout from 6 steps to 3. And every one of her ideas starts on paper. Please welcome Maya Chen. 8) BIO CHECK • No placeholders needed. • Word counts: Short bio 49 (meetup program limit of 50 met); Medium bio 93; Long bio 186; First-person bio 124; Host introduction 70. • Character counts: Instagram 136; X 158; TikTok 68. • Facts only: every number, employer, and credential comes from the inputs; no invented results, clients, or awards. • Pronouns used as stated: she/her. • No inflated labels or guarantees. • Limits met, including the 50-word program limit. • English only. • Check every fact and title before publishing. • This is a bio pack only — not a resume, not a cover letter, not a LinkedIn post, not an Instagram caption, not a press release, not a job description, and not a wedding toast.