Ariel Cotton
Freelance Product Designer, Visual Designer, And Illustrator
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAriel Cotton is a New York–based freelance product and visual designer with 11 years of experience crafting research-driven, human-centered digital experiences and illustrations. She founded and runs Argon & Cobalt, serving 40+ clients across multiple continents and designing products used by millions, including features for an electronics search engine with 15M users. Trained as a BFA artist at Cooper Union, Ariel blends rigorous front-end implementation skills with award-winning visual storytelling—she is also a published comic artist whose interactive work has been exhibited internationally. Her practice emphasizes iterative user flows, testing, accessible design systems, and prototyping with code, and she has a track record of transforming company design culture and mentoring junior designers. Notably, she built an AutoCAD viewer and a UNICEF-native app for language learning, showing a rare mix of artistic sensibility and technical problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Art and Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Art and Design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtHigh school diploma, Fine/Studio Arts, General, High school diploma, Fine/Studio Arts, General at Frank Sinatra School of The Arts High School
English, Hebrew, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (5)
wordpress-plugin7
react6
python-requests6
python5
jekyll4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
argoncobalt/site-theme-v001
May 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
argoncobalt/win_an_internet
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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