I’m May Reyes, a UI/UX Researcher and App Designer. Previously, I worked as a UI/UX Engineer creating web apps while combining design and development skills. As an artist, designer, and someone who loves everything interactive, I blend my love of arts and digital media to visualize, communicate, and create engaging experiences. My work has been described as a bridge between design and development, as I am the person who sits in between these two disciplines. I work towards building more user-friendly designs while ensuring that the handoff to development accurately matches design specifications. My experience has equipped me with a strong eye for detail and the ability to transform rough ideas to general concepts, general concepts into mock visuals, and eventually bringing the visuals to development as working, interactive code. My current work is focused on designing for health tech and the integration of AI for symptoms management. Additionally, my work as a designer with various educational non-profits has provided me with many opportunities to collaborate with multifaceted teams, tackle complex challenges, and explore innovative solutions that resonate with diverse audiences. These experiences have instilled in me a deep appreciation for cultural nuances, easy to use interfaces, service design, user research, and effective storytelling.

May Reyes

I’m May Reyes, a UI/UX Researcher and App Designer. Previously, I worked as a UI/UX Engineer creating web apps while combining design and development skills. As an artist, designer, and someone who loves everything interactive, I blend my love of arts and digital media to visualize, communicate, and create engaging experiences. My work has been described as a bridge between design and development, as I am the person who sits in between these two disciplines. I work towards building more user-friendly designs while ensuring that the handoff to development accurately matches design specifications. My experience has equipped me with a strong eye for detail and the ability to transform rough ideas to general concepts, general concepts into mock visuals, and eventually bringing the visuals to development as working, interactive code. My current work is focused on designing for health tech and the integration of AI for symptoms management. Additionally, my work as a designer with various educational non-profits has provided me with many opportunities to collaborate with multifaceted teams, tackle complex challenges, and explore innovative solutions that resonate with diverse audiences. These experiences have instilled in me a deep appreciation for cultural nuances, easy to use interfaces, service design, user research, and effective storytelling.

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I’m May Reyes, a UI/UX Researcher and App Designer. Previously, I worked as a UI/UX Engineer creating web apps while combining design and development skills. As an artist, designer, and someone who loves everything interactive, I blend my love of arts and digital media to visualize, communicate, and create engaging experiences. My work has been described as a bridge between design and development, as I am the person who sits in between these two disciplines. I work towards building more user-friendly designs while ensuring that the handoff to development accurately matches design specifications.

My experience has equipped me with a strong eye for detail and the ability to transform rough ideas to general concepts, general concepts into mock visuals, and eventually bringing the visuals to development as working, interactive code. My current work is focused on designing for health tech and the integration of AI for symptoms management. Additionally, my work as a designer with various educational non-profits has provided me with many opportunities to collaborate with multifaceted teams, tackle complex challenges, and explore innovative solutions that resonate with diverse audiences. These experiences have instilled in me a deep appreciation for cultural nuances, easy to use interfaces, service design, user research, and effective storytelling.

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Work Experience

UX/UI Researcher and App Designer at Japanese Health Tech Company
December 1, 2024 - Present
• Leads end-to-end UX research efforts, including recruitment, user interviews, and synthesis of findings to inform design decisions for JoyHer, a women’s healthcare app focused on menopause symptoms management and research. • Utilizes qualitative and quantitative UX research methods to identify user pain points while presenting findings and design recommendations to advocate for user needs. • Collaborates closely with engineers, product managers, and doctors/medical research team at Kyoto University to translate UX research insights into actionable design solutions. • Designs intuitive app interfaces while contributing to the app’s user-centered vision, ensuring alignment with healthcare standards and seamless integration of AI technology. • Creates and maintains design assets for marketing, social media, and product development while helping build and scale a cohesive design system.
Founder ~ UI/UX Design Engineer at Manga Prices
May 1, 2023 - Present
May 2023 to present: ideated, designed, built, and deployed a niche manga price comparison tool aggregating listings across multiple retailers. Developed React/Next.js/Tailwind front-end components and integrated multiple search APIs for real-time results. Built custom API logic for small businesses lacking search API support and maintained retailer relationships to grow affiliate partnerships. Implemented abuse protections for search API endpoints using Cloudflare Turnstile, randomized frontend tokens, and Cloudflare firewall rules; leveraged AI-assisted tooling to accelerate design-to-development iteration.
UX Design Engineer at JIG-SAW Inc
September 1, 2022 - September 30, 2024
・Ideated, designed, and built wireframes, user flows, and prototypes for company's consoles, web applications, product websites, landing pages, and blogs as a sole designer on the development team. ・Built components and front-end interfaces with React to ensure accurate implementation of design system while maintaining designs across company's web products using HTML/SCSS, JavaScript, npm, yarn, git, etc. ・Iterated design system to improve efficiency and communication while bridging gaps between the design to developer hand-off. ・Established and led best practices for design research, creating a framework for user testing that improved product insights, enhanced user-centric design, and drove more effective product development. ・Proposed and presented ideas, research, and high-fidelity prototypes at product meetings.
Treetop Trail Co-Designer at The Minnesota Zoo
June 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Contract co-designer (June 2021 to August 2021) helping develop a concept and vision for the new Treetop Trail. Used UX research methods and design thinking, blending storytelling and empathy to generate and synthesize key insights. Conducted interviews and conversations for research and discovery, then pitched solutions and contributed ideas with project facilitators and stakeholders following virtual design sessions.
Creative Consumer Consultant at IDEAS TO GO, INC
June 1, 2021 - Present
Freelance since June 2021, innovating and developing product ideation, branding strategies, and UX solutions for clients (including many Fortune 500 companies). Collaborates with client teams and facilitators to present ideas in sessions and document them in an online database. Applies design methods and research through an organized creative process that explores broad possibilities and refines targeted ideas.

Education

Bachelor of Science at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
September 1, 2018 - May 12, 2022

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Retail, Media & Entertainment