David Martinez

About

Hi, I’m David.

I’m a product designer and UX engineer. I design a product, then I build it myself. I study informatics and human-computer interaction at the University of Iowa and graduate in May 2027.

I’ve wanted to work with computers for as long as I can remember. The first web page I built in HTML made me sure.

I study informatics at the University of Iowa, focused on human-computer interaction, with minors in Spanish and psychology. I draw a change two or three ways, pick one, write down why, then build it and test it on a real phone. I build it myself so it works the way I designed it.

The best part of my summer at Sollo was defending my design decisions. The team gave me room to go all out, then asked me why. That’s the kind of team I want to work on.

I’m looking for a product design or UX engineer role: a summer 2027 internship, or full time after I graduate in May 2027.

Design, research, accessibility, and the build. Figma and design systems, user interviews and analysis, WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility in light and dark mode, Flutter, React and TypeScript, Python and SQL, and a way of working with AI where the decisions stay mine.

Testing a change on a phone simulator, the step before my own phone.

Off the clock

The rest of the map

Tech first, always. Then video games, pickleball, hikes, road trips and the mountains. And my two teams, the Chicago Bears and Real Madrid.

Places I have been

Twelve so far
David Martinez, smiling, in glasses and a black blazer.
David Martinez.
David leaning over a laptop at a work table, with a phone simulator open beside the code.
Testing a change on a phone simulator, the step before my own phone.