Martine Dowden
CTO, UX / UI Designer & Developer, International Speaker

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An award winning CTO, UX / UI Designer & Developer, International Speaker, and author, I focus on web interfaces that are beautiful, functional, accessible, and usable. I approach user experience from both art and science, drawing from my degrees in psychology and visual communications. I have worked as an developer, artist, educator, and consultant since 2005. Currently, she is the CTO at Andromeda Galactic Solutions where she continues to learn, work on, and share her passion for front end development.

Work

Latest Projects

Skills

User Experience

  • Accessibility
  • Information Architecture
  • Research
  • Technical Writing
  • Statistics
  • Usability
  • Visual Communication
  • WCAG

Design

  • Assets
  • Brand management
  • Icons
  • Interactions
  • Mockups
  • Prototypes
  • Typography
  • Wireframes

Development

  • Angular / React / Vue
  • CSS / Sass / Less
  • Git
  • JavaScript & TypeScript
  • Node & Express
  • Ruby
  • WAI-ARIA
  • XSLT / XPath

Awards

Google Developer Expert

2023 - Present Firebase

Google Developer Expert

2021 - Present Angular

Microsoft MVP

2019 - Present Developer Technologies

Google Developer Expert

2018 - Present Web Technologies

Book Authority Best Accessibility Book of All Time Winner

Architecting CSS: The Programmer's Guide to Effective Stylesheets

Book Authority Best Accessibility Books of All Time Winner

Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success

Mira Award Nominee

2020 Tech Product of the Year

FlexePark Nominated for Tech Product of the Year Mira Award

National Tech Culture Award Winner

2020 Remote Work Culture Award

Andromeda wins the 2020 Remote Work Culture Award

Parking Today Awards Finalist

2019

FlexePark is selected as a finalist for the Parking Today Awards

Hackies Award

2019 Mentor of the Year

AcceliCITY Finalist

2019

FlexePark is selected as a finalist for the 2019 Leading Citities AcceliCITY program

Mira Award Nominee

2019 New Tech Product of the Year

FlexePark nominated for New Product of the Year Mira Award

Origin's Art Show Award

2012 Best Historical Traditional Artwork

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

2009

Psi Chi

2009

National Honors Society of Psychology

...Martine is a Michelangelo. She’s amazing at understanding a problem. She makes pretty UIs, but she understands the problem and then designs the right UI for this. She’s the best UI designer I’ve worked with because she thinks about how people will use a solution.
Jon Cooper , CTS

Contact

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