I am Ariel Cotton.  I'm an artist, product designer, & maker of interactive things.

I craft beautiful, human-centered interfaces for web and mobile applications. I draw and write comics about life in Berlin and New York City. I even tinker with electronics and make interactive art from time to time.



Human-centered, accessible, and aesthetic design, created for the public good.

I combine design, technology, and visual art to create accessible digital products that benefit millions of humans globally. Whether it is mitigating a healthcare hiring crisis, translating preventative healthcare goals into digital habits, or streamlining management of grants that affect public health and environmental infrastructure, my design always remains human-centered, and focused on empathy.


Product design

VA Healthcare Job Map

UI/UX design, healthcare, job search, careers, web app

In order to address a healthcare hiring shortage within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, I designed a job hunting map. This streamlined job seekers’ journey from the VA Careers website to USAJOBS and raised conversion rates by 22%.

GrantSolutions Website Redesign

UI/UX design, grants management, federal government, comprehensive design overhaul

I led an end-to-end redesign to modernize the website of GrantSolutions, a federal grants management program. Through adjustments to the content, information architecture, user flow and visual design, we raised engagement by 11.11% and decreased session durations by 35.04%, thus demonstrating improved efficiency and ease of use.

Relaxbox

UI/UX design, healthcare, anti-stress, web app

This is a toolkit of short interventions and exercises to help Techniker Krankenkasse users quickly deal with stressful situations. It is a complement to their anti-stress eCoach, which offers longer-term solutions and programs to deal with stress.

Managing Usability Barriers on TK eCoach

UI/UX design, healthcare, usability, chatbot, web app

We designed a tool for users of a health and wellness app to identify various obstacles to progress in their health goals and choose from strategies to help combat them.

Octopart

UI/UX design, electronics search engine, CAD viewing and download feature, blog design, visual design

For this electronics parts search engine, I designed a feature that enables users to view and download CAD drawings for specific parts. I also redesigned the company blog.

Spokehub

UI/UX design, design studio, user forum, web development, web app

A Berlin-based design studio had me do the design and front-end development for their website and an internal social media platform for their network of artists, designers, and makers.

UNICEF

UI/UX design, language learning, native app

I was the mobile UI/UX designer for a language-learning app used by refugees coming primarily from Syria to the EU.

Akelius

UI/UX design, real estate, web apps, design systems

I did UI/UX design and contributed to the design system for a suite of desktop and mobile applications used by a global real estate company to manage all their operations, from letting advertisements, to transactions, to communication with their tenants.

Memorado

UI design, mindfulness and games, native app, icon design, illustration

I designed user interfaces and illustrated graphics for brain exercise games and a mindfulness app.

Otto Versand

Interactive map, web app, visual design, information design, web development

For this Austrian online shop, I designed and developed an interactive map displaying the vegan flavors and U-Bahn location of every ice cream shop in Vienna.

Baculus

UI/UX design, identity & branding, information design, web development, illustration

A colleague enlisted my help to design the user interface, branding and website for an emergency networking product.

Winner of a Stage 1 Design Concept Award in the Mozilla Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society Challenge

MASS Exchange

UI design, futures trading, web app, visual communications design, web development

I was the UI designer for this futures trading platform. I also developed prototypes in HTML and CSS.


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