Maria Celeste A.
UX/UI Designer | Front-End/WordPress (Gutenberg | Elementor) Developer
✅ 100% Job Success 🥇 Top Rated on Upwork 💼 $50K+ Total Earnings | 76 Jobs | 1,000+ Hours 🎓 17+ Years of Professional Experience in UI/UX Design & Development 🚀 250+ Websites & Apps Designed and Developed 📜 IxDF Certified: Design Thinking, Accessibility, AI for Designers, Information Visualization 👤 About Me: Senior UX/UI Designer I'm a UX/UI designer and developer with over 17 years of experience creating high-end, responsive, and conversion-focused digital experiences for websites and applications. I have deep expertise in UX principles, web standards, typography, color theory, responsive design, and design systems. I focus on creating interfaces that are not only visually refined, but strategically structured, highly usable, scalable, and developer-ready. I work in English and Spanish, fully remote, with years of experience partnering with global clients across time zones. 💡 Career Highlights: • Designed and maintained multilingual websites with custom integrations; collaborated with developers and the CEO to ship product features. • Redesigned workflows that increased launch speed by 200%; migrated a 1M+ lead database. • Led end-to-end UX projects and designed/developed 120+ websites and apps for global clients. 🎨 My Services: Senior UX/UI Designer for Websites. WordPress, multilingual sites, SaaS. UX/UI Design for Web Apps & Dashboards: data-driven interfaces, admin panels. UX/UI Design for Mobile Apps: iOS & Android. Landing Page Design: conversion-focused marketing pages. WordPress Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP; custom integrations. Strategic Graphic Design to strengthen your brand. 🧰 Tools I Use: Figma · Adobe Creative Suite · WordPress · Claude & AI-assisted design workflows ⭐ Why Choose Me? ✔ 100% Job Success and Top Rated — consistent quality across strategy, execution, and communication. ✔ Proven impact: 200% faster launch speed, successful migration of a 1M+ lead database, and design systems scaled across 120+ products. ✔ Designer and developer: I design with implementation in mind, so your files hand off smoothly to developers. ✔ Accessibility-first mindset (WCAG, IxDF-certified). ✔ AI-Assisted UX/UI Design & Rapid Prototyping. ✔ Bilingual (English/Spanish) and fully remote-ready. 🖥️ For WordPress / SaaS / Web Projects: • Structuring content and information architecture for clearer navigation • Designing user journeys that guide visitors from first interaction to meaningful action • Creating modern, brand-aligned interfaces that build credibility and trust • Optimizing key pages and conversion points to reduce drop-off 📊 For Web Apps & Complex Products: • Simplifying complex workflows into intuitive, scalable experiences • Designing for multiple user types and edge cases • Building clean, developer-ready Figma files and component libraries • Aligning design decisions with business and user goals 🌍 Mission-Driven Design: I'm passionate about sustainability and ethical design. I volunteer with climate organizations and help mission-driven brands create digital experiences with real impact. 💬 Whether you're looking for a UX/UI Designer, Figma Specialist, WordPress Lead, Design Systems Expert, or Senior UX/UI Consultant, I bring strategy, precision, and design excellence to every project. Let's talk! Message me if you want to improve your product's performance. I offer a quick, NO-cost UX review and usually respond within a few hours. 🔑 Keywords: UX/UI Designer, User Interface Designer, User Experience Designer, UI Designer, UX Designer, Wireframing, Prototyping, Mobile App UI/UX Design, Web App UI/UX Design, Dashboard Design, Landing Page Design, Website UI/UX Design, Responsive Design, Human-Centered Design, Figma, Figma Expert, Freelance UX/UI Designer, WordPress Developer, WordPress UI/UX, Multilingual Websites, SaaS UX/UI, Accessibility, Design Systems, Component Libraries, UX Research, Usability Testing, Information Architecture, Branding, Graphic Design, Sustainable Design
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $1.9k
Billed in all: $51,298$51k
$380 in the last 6 months
Across 77 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 11% in PSD to XHTML
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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