After 24 years working as a UI/UX designer, I feel extremely fortunate in that I enjoy what I do as much today as when I first started. I've worked in numerous verticals and organizations ranging from small startups to global fortune 500, and with many talented designers and developers.

I am a hands-on UX designer and experienced HTML-CSS-jQuery coder, who advocates passionately for user centered design, creative collaboration, design systems, user empathy, best practices, UX research, and other practices/considerations that support the design and delivery of optimized user experiences.

- Frank Gaete

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I had the pleasure of working with Frank over the past year while consulting for Clever Devices.
During this time, Frank’s focus on user centered design, strong advocacy for incorporating user research throughout the design process, and attention to detail, contributed to a successful revamp of multiple products in the Clever Devices suite.
As a manager, Frank is very easy to work with and does a great job of creating a supportive and innovative environment for his team.
I would highly recommend him for any position he pursues!

Ashley Sherman
UX Research Consultant, Clever Devices / Product Manager, Vonage

 

Frank is a very organized, methodical and intelligent individual. He is able to take a request and build from there. If there are gaps, missing information, or if the request is very open ended, he is able to to get all the necessary pieces in place in order to deliver a completed product over to the requestor. He takes pride in his work, he gives the ability to explore other ideas by having various iterations in his pocket to see which workflow would meet the users need more appropriately. He prides himself in building products that are user research based and he explores best common design practices. I learned a lot from working with him and he has an enormous amount of experience to share with others.

Oscar Castaneda
UIX Architect, Clever Devices

 

I have worked with Frank for over 15 years and we have collaborated on dozens of projects. Frank is one of the best UIX architect have worked with in my 25 year career. Frank always comes up with elegant and clean designs to often complex workflows. Using his creative design skills, his web pages are intuitive and easy use. In addition, his prototyping skills are second to none and he delivers the best solutions for the end users. Frank has also managed many large projects with a team of developers and is able to keep a consistent design throughout. Whether your project is large or small, complex or simple Frank has a solution.

Chris Gustafson
Sr Lead Software Engineer, Broadridge Financial

 

I worked with Frank at Broadridge in the UX/UI department. Frank is a fantastic UX/UI designer/engineer who ensures that he completely understands the entire user "story". Then translates those users' needs into a design/implementation that any company would be proud to put into production. Frank handled everything from reviewing the users needs, wireframing ideas complete with all necessary styling. While you will be thrilled with all of Frank's skill sets, it is his caring and dedication that set him apart from everyone else.

Eileen James
Director of UI Design & Development, Broadridge Financial

 

Skills

  • UI/UX Design
  • Conceptual design and rapid prototyping
  • UX Research - testing & analysis
  • Desktop and Mobile design
  • Adobe Experience Design, Balsamiq, InVision, Axure
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Business requirements analysis
  • Cross-team collaboration
  • Project and team management
  • Agile & Waterfall methods
  • HTML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap
  • Visual Studio; Azure hosting/development
  • Continuous development & integration