Michael Friesenhahn
Senior Content Designer at Meta
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Friesenhahn is a senior content and UX designer with nine years of experience crafting digital educational experiences and leading cross-functional teams at Meta and ETS. He blends instructional design, product UX, and accessibility expertise to move large-scale assessments from print to digital and to improve day-to-day content workflows. Michael has hands-on front-end experience contributing UI components and assessment features to high-profile open-source projects like web.dev and has improved accessibility guidance within GoogleChrome’s Lighthouse. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, he pairs user testing and client management with clear content strategy to deliver measurable learning outcomes. Based in Philadelphia, he brings a rare mix of classroom teaching experience and technical content development that helps bridge pedagogy and product.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
html10
component-development10
css10
accessibility10
progressive-web-apps10
javascript10
webpages10
eleventy9
web-development9
audit8
guideline8
auditing8
documentation7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleChrome/web.dev
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
The frontend, backend, and content source code for web.dev
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:309 commits, 122 PRs, 523 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the front-end development of the web.dev project by implementing and updating various UI components. They added and modified components such as the Details, Blockquote, and Assessment components, as well as updating existing ones like the Compare widget. Furthermore, the user made updates to the Lighthouse audits content and PWA-related documentation and components.
web-devdevweb-appcssjavascript
GoogleChrome/lighthouse
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web.
Role in this project:Accessibility Specialist
Accessibility SpecialistContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 23 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on improving the accessibility of the Lighthouse project by updating documentation links to web.dev. The contributions primarily involved modifying audit descriptions within the Lighthouse core to point to updated documentation on accessibility best practices. This work demonstrates a commitment to improving the accessibility of web development and ensuring Lighthouse provides up-to-date information for users.
performance-analysisauditperformance-metricsdeveloper-toolslighthouse
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