Dana Ayotte
Senior Inclusive Designer at Inclusive Design Research Centre, Ontario College of Art and Design
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDana Ayotte is a Senior Inclusive Designer with 12 years in inclusive, accessible and equitable UI design and a wider 20+ year career that bridges engineering, research and studio art. Based in Vancouver, she leads applied research at the Inclusive Design Research Centre, translating deep accessibility research into practical ICT design patterns that serve diverse language, cultural and ability needs. Trained as a mechanical engineer at Queen’s and MIT and as a studio artist, she combines rigorous human-centered research methods with hands-on craft sensibilities evident in her lino and screen prints. Dana also runs her own art and design practice, bringing material-making perspectives to digital inclusion work and community-led co-design. Her background in product development and biomechanics gives her a unique systems-level view of usability and verification. Colleagues describe her as a generative, practice-oriented researcher who blends technical precision with creative empathy.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Studio Art, Dipl. Studio Art at Capilano UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.Sc. Honours, Mechanical Engineering, B.Sc. Honours, Mechanical Engineering at Queen's University
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Github Skills (26)
eleventy8
preference6
fractal5
modeling-tool5
archived5
sage4
fluid4
editing4
refinement3
atomic-design3
pattern2
metadata2
wordpress2
development-kit2
openstreetmap2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dayotte/docs-guidelines
Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 49 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 10 months
fluid-project/sojustrepairit.org
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
SJRK Splash Page
Contributions:160 commits, 1 PR, 156 pushes in 10 months
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