Summary
Francis Cortez is an Interaction Designer with 11 years of experience crafting responsive, user-centered web experiences from enterprise to retail. Based in New York, he combines a dual background in Electrical Engineering and Human-Centered Design with hands-on front-end skills (JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SASS, jQuery) and experience prototyping interactions at scale for brands like J.Crew and product teams at Google. He has a track record of translating user research into production-ready features, having built responsive mobile experiences, integrated mapping and social features for disaster-response prototypes, and contributed to cross-disciplinary UX teams. Comfortable both designing and shipping front-end code, Francis bridges visual tools like Photoshop and CMS platforms such as WordPress to accelerate design-to-development workflows. Notably, his early work at SPAWAR involved interoperability demos and real-world system redesigns, reflecting an ability to apply interaction design in high-stakes contexts.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering and B.S., Human Centered Design & Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering and B.S., Human Centered Design & Engineering at University of Washington