Courtny Cotten
Senior Design Manager at Microsoft
Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolCourtny Cotten is a Senior Design Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of experience shaping developer-focused design systems and learning experiences across large-scale products like Microsoft Docs, Channel 9, and Learn. Rooted in typography, journalism, and visual communication (BFA, magna cum laude), he blends rigorous UX research with strong interaction and visual design leadership to deliver accessible, production-ready design systems. He has led teams and coached designers through high-growth transitions, balancing roadmap strategy, prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration with product and engineering. Prior roles at Stack Overflow and multiple agencies give him deep experience in product innovation for developer audiences and enterprise platforms. Uncommonly for a design leader, he pairs editorial instincts from his journalism background with hands-on system-building to make complex technical content feel clear and usable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Visual Communication Design, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Visual Communication Design, Magna Cum Laude at University of IndianapolisCrawfordsville High School
Stackoverflow
143reputation
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Github Skills (30)
python10
flowtype10
react10
typescript9
azure9
frontend9
atlas8
microsoft7
microsoft-azure7
css7
developer-relations7
jekyll6
liquid6
github-pages6
github6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Courtny/mountietrackxc
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:193 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
Courtny/USATF
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:140 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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