About
CTO, UX / UI Designer & Developer, International Speaker

black and white portrait of Martine Dowden created entirely out of letters

About Me

Focusing 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 artist, educator, and consultant since 2005. I stay active in the industry by writing articles, leading workshops, and attending and speaking at conferences and meetups worldwide. In 2015 I published a children's book, Programming Languages ABC++, and in 2016 the Workbook Edition sold over 20,000 copies. I then went on to write Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success, which was released in June 2019, and Architecting CSS: The Programmer’s Guide to Effective Stylesheets in 2020.

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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

Patents

Parking Lot Enforcement System

Date: 2019-11-20
Number: us 62938036
Status: Pending

Parking Lot Check In System

Date: 2018-11-24
Number: us US16/695,176
Status: Abandoned
Link: More Details about Parking Lot Check In System

Awards

Book Authority Best Accessibility Books of All Time Winner

Architecting CSS: The Programmer's Guide to Effective Style Sheets

Book Authority Best Accessibility Books of All Time Winner

Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success

Google Developer Expert - Angular

Angular

Microsoft MVP

Developer Technologies

Google Developer Expert - Web

Web Technologies

2020 Mira Award Nominee

FlexePark Nominated for Mira Award Best in Tech

2020 National Tech Culture Award Winner

Andromeda wins a 2020 Remote Work Culture Award

2019 Parking Awards Finalist

FlexePark is selected as a finalist for Parking Today Awards

2019 Mira Award Nominee

FlexePark Nominated for Mira Award Best in Tech

Origin's Art Show Award Winner

2012

Best Historical Traditional Artwork

Hackies Awards

Mentor of the Year

2019 AcceliCITY Finalist

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

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

2009

Was chosen for Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges

Psy Chi

2009

Was inducted into the 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