UX Engineer & Interaction Designer bridging the gap between design and engineering.
With a background in Human-Computer Interaction & Design (HCID) and an Industrial Design Engineering degree (Top Graduate 🏆), I combine engineering and design to create human-centered, digital experiences, from interaction research to implementation.
- UX Research & Analytics: User-Centered Design (UCD), Usability Testing, Data-Driven Design, GA4, Hotjar / ContentSquare, Dovetail.
- Design Engineering & UI: Semantic Design Tokens, Storybook, Figma, Task-Oriented UI, Human Factors.
- Frontend Engineering: Astro, Preact (Islands Architecture), React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS.
- Quality & Workflows: Vitest (JSDOM), Biome (Strict Linting/Formatting), Agentic AI Orchestration.
- Cross-Platform: Dart, Flutter, Ionic.
- ✨ Portfolio V2 (Astro + Preact) An enterprise-grade portfolio architected for peak performance and accessibility, featuring a zero-defect TypeScript runtime, ethical UX patterns, and a highly optimized design system documented via MDX and Storybook.
- 🌐 Full Stack Open (React/Node.js) Comprehensive full-stack development implementations showcasing API design, state management, and modern JavaScript ecosystem mastery.
- 📱 Flavor Fiesta (Ionic/Angular) A user-centered mobile app for food discovery, proving deep understanding of Angular paradigms and hybrid mobile development.
- 📐 Device-Agnostic Design (Dart/Flutter) Exploratory repository tackling multi-device screen adaptation and cross-platform UI challenges using Flutter.
- Portfolio & Case Studies: manuelhortelano.com
- LinkedIn: in/manuel-hortelano-rodriguez
