• Interaction Design
  • Responsive Design
  • Stakeholder Interviewing
  • Researched and prioritized accessibility in UI/UX concepts for the aging user archetype most likely to use the tool
  • Gulp/SASS Build Refactor
  • Responsive Refactor
  • UI Template Rewrite
  • Rebuilt the Gulp, Sass and Compass build system and refactored the authoring SCSS to match
  • Fixed the responsive bugs that were blocking product demos on mobile
  • Information Architecture
  • Contextual Inquiry
  • Card Sorting
  • Information architecture research, wireframing and UI/UX design for the infosec team
  • Ran contextual inquiry with 8 participants, then reworked the IA around the team’s mental model
  • Rails/ERB UI Build
  • REST API Front End
  • Custom Card-Sort Tool
  • Built an internal FedRAMP vulnerability tracker in Ruby on Rails, ERB and JavaScript
  • Greenfield front-end development against a REST API
  • Built a card sorting tool from scratch to skip a procurement cycle
  • Platform Redesign
  • Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Section 508 UX
  • Redesigned a complex education platform with stakeholders during its rebuild
  • Angular UI Development
  • MathJax/MathML Rendering
  • Chrome OS PWA
  • Built interface and experience work in Angular, MathJax and MathML for educational content
  • Shipped the rebuild as a Chrome OS PWA under extensive Section 508 requirements
  • Design Workshops
  • Wireframing
  • Accessibility Curricula
  • Joined Virgin Pulse as first UX Design Engineer, guided product and engineering dialogs to help achieve WCAG compliance for priority client: Bank of America
  • Led workshops, wireframing and UX design for product teams, and taught two accessibility curricula to 400+ people
  • Micro-frontend POCs
  • WCAG Reflow Refactor
  • Component Library
  • Led AngularJS micro-frontend POCs to meet WCAG Reflow and Resize
  • Part of the front-end component library team, responsible for WCAG-compliant behavior across its components
Copy This Design
In my experience, projects almost always ship because one single person makes them ship. To be clear, that person doesn't write all the code or do all the work, and I'm not saying the project could ship without an entire team behind it. But it's really important that one person on the project has an end-to-end understanding of the whole thing: how it hangs together technically, and what product or business purpose it serves.

About Gabriel Martin

Hi, I'm Gabriel. The quote above is how I aspire to deliver value within a team.

I bring 15 years of experience across UX disciplines, engineering, design, and user research. This variety of experiences helps me bring diverse perspectives and expertise together, understand user and business needs, and have the technical and design chops to help teams transform complex challenges into elegant solutions that users love.

I believe the secret is to use that experience as a bridging force within cross-disciplinary teams, bringing everyone's vision together to deliver products that are technically robust, intuitive to use, and accessible to all.

See how that plays out in practice in the case studies.