Summary
Michael Martel is a multidisciplinary designer with 8+ years focused on visual, UI and UX design, and a career spanning over two decades in multimedia, elearning and interactive experiences. He has led creative direction and production for large-scale training programs and certification courses, notably delivering Articulate 360 courseware and design guidelines for DigiCert’s global sales enablement. Michael combines government UX work—prototyping WCAG-compliant tools for Canada.ca and contributing to GC Collab design assets—with private-sector product and game projects, showing a rare fluency across public and commercial contexts. He’s skilled at translating complex instructional objectives into polished interfaces, illustrations, animations and usable prototypes while working bilingually in English and French. Colleagues often rely on him for end-to-end delivery: from research-informed wireframes and usability testing to final visual assets and production-ready specs. An often-overlooked strength is his deep institutional memory in elearning production, having progressed from hands-on multimedia authoring in the 1990s to modern UX/UI systems and patterns.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Design and Applied Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Design and Applied Arts at Concordia University
Honors, Academic OAC, Honors, Academic OAC at St.Paul's HS
Certificate, User Experience Design, Pass, Certificate, User Experience Design, Pass at Springboard
French, English