After graduating with a degree in communication design, Maria co-founded a children's book publishing company in 2012, illustrated children's books and took responsibility for corporate and editorial design as well as marketing for the publishing company. In parallel, she discovered her passion for interfaces between people and complex systems. As a user experience designer, she henceforth conceived solutions for graphic interfaces as well as for voice controls in the field of smart homes. Since 2019, she has been leading the Conversational Design team at Triplesense Reply in Frankfurt.