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.


Recent Design Work

VA Healthcare Job Map

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%.

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

GrantSolutions Website Redesign

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.

Categories
UI/UX design, grants management, federal government, comprehensive redesign

Relaxbox

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.

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

Managing Usability Barriers on TK eCoach

My team and I designed a tool for users of the Techniker Krankenkasse’s health and wellness eCoach app to identify various obstacles to progress in their health goals and choose from strategies to help combat them.

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

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