Ed Madrid
I’m a designer and front-end developer with 10+ years of experience building intuitive, user-friendly interfaces in highly collaborative work environments. I enjoy working with multidisciplinary teams and subject matter experts to make specialized knowledge accessible and engaging. I’m currently a Web Designer/Developer at Columbia University Libraries.
Contact
edmadrid@gmail.com
Skills & Tools
HTML • CSS • JavaScript • Web accessibility • UI/UX • Visual design • Content strategy • Wireframing • Prototyping • Tailwind • Bootstrap • Jekyll • Eleventy • WordPress • Ruby on Rails • Adobe Creative Suite • Figma • Git • GitHub
Education
B.A. English, University of Oregon, 2000
Projects
Women Film Pioneers
The Women Film Pioneers Project is a comprehensive digital resource documenting the hundreds of women who worked behind the scenes during the silent film era. I led a complete redesign of this WordPress-based website, modernizing the user experience and making the extensive profiles, essays, and multimedia resources accessible across all devices.
Role: Front-end development, visual design, UI/UX, content strategy, digital accessibility
Tools: HTML, CSS, JS, WordPress
Digital Dante
A popular multimedia resource dedicated to the study and interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy. As primary designer for the website, I work in collaboration with faculty, staff and students from the Department of Italian and the Humanities and History Division. I redesigned the site to enhance accessibility while adding audio and video elements to its scholarly commentaries, intertextual tools and rare manuscript illustrations.
Role: Front-end development, visual design, UI/UX, digital accessibility
Tools: HTML, CSS, JS, WordPress
Academic Commons
A digital repository providing open access to research and scholarship produced at Columbia University and its affiliate institutions. Working with a team of developers, I served as lead designer on a comprehensive redesign of the platform, which is home to a vast repository of scholarly works comprising academic papers, dissertations, and datasets. The redesign improved user experience and accessibility while enhancing the discoverability of content.
Role: Front-end development, digital accessibility, UI/UX
Tools: Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JS
Bibliopolítica
A digital exhibit chronicling the history of one of the first Chicana/o/x collections, the Chicano Studies Library at UC Berkeley. As the UI/UX designer for this project, I worked with a team of curators, developers, and metadata specialists to create an accessible interface that showcases photographs, ephemera, archival documents, and oral histories.
Role: Front-end development, UI/UX
Tools: Eleventy, Tailwind
Open Daylight
An open source software project hosted by the Linux Foundation. I worked with the Head of Marketing to redesign their website, transforming what was originally a promotional site into a user-focused technical resource. I created a fully-functional prototype that restructured complex technical content, bringing key navigation elements to the front page and designing a clean, information-rich experience. As part of this project, I wrote and directed Connection Through Collaboration, a video that highlights the project's community-driven ethos.
Role: Content strategy, visual design
Tools: WordPress, HTML, CSS
