Rain Michaels
Senior Staff UX Design Manager at Google
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRain Michaels is a Senior Staff UX Design Manager at Google with over a decade of experience crafting inclusive digital experiences centered on abilities-based design, equity, and cognitive accessibility. A Certified Professional in Web Accessibility and active member of W3C’s COGA and AGWG, Rain blends policy-level accessibility advocacy with hands-on interaction design leadership. Their background spans founding a UX consultancy, directing UX at design-driven firms, teaching UX, and shipping large-scale experiential products and integrations for nonprofits and media organizations. As an autistic designer with an MA focused on intellectual and developmental disabilities, Rain brings rare lived-experience insight to accessibility solutions that are both humane and technically rigorous. Based in Cambridge, MA, they are known for translating complex accessibility standards into practical, product-ready design systems that scale.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Film Production, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Film Production at University of Southern CaliforniaBA, Film, Anthropology, BA, Film, Anthropology at Vassar CollegeMaster of Arts - MA, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Autism, Master of Arts - MA, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Autism at Teachers College, Columbia University
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Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
axe10
wcag10
materialize10
voiceover9
technical-writing8
barrage7
openui57
tooltips5
edtech4
drupal2
javascript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rainbreaw/coga
Mar 2021 - May 2023
Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force deliverables
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
task-forcea11ycognitivedisabilitiesdeliverables
cherryhill/aspace_pui
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:137 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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