My Work
I've always been interested in interactive media. In video games, User Interface design is an integral part of the player's experience. I've done work that ranges from game UI, to websites, logos, branding and marketing materials.
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- Game Projects
- Web Design
- Letterhead & Logo
About Gilberto
What I do includes: Game UI, UX design, graphic design, web development and logo design. Visual comunication and improving the user experience through visual elements.
UI/UX Designer.
I offer project focused solutions based on competitive benchmarks and engaging ideas, utilizing the brand's identity and style. The interface for digital products requires engagement and branding, providing an enjoyable experience that users will come back to and recognize. These are the fundamental principles that drive my design process.
- Email: gdesign.mail@gmail.com
- Phone: +1 (786) 603 1167
- City: Minneapolis, MN
- Degree: Masters In Game Design
- Freelance: Available
- Full time: Available
Working with Gilberto
I will let some of the people I've had the pleasure to work with tell you about me below.
Rebbaz Royee
Lead UI Designer @ Electronic Arts (Now Zynga)
Gilberto has opened my eyes to a higher level of user experience with an unbridled focus on user-centered empathy. Rapid iteration, fantastic art and a thought process that is truly collaborative with all departments are but a few of the many skills Gil has demonstrated. Any challenge will be met with a new, fresh idea that is competitive and practical.
Gil is a capable full-stack designer from best practices in production tasks, implementation, polishing the work completion and a professional attitude.
Jodi Sherwood
Senior Manager, UX @ Monumental
I can’t say enough good things about Gil! He joined our team in the heat of trying to organize, expand and get things out the door as fast as we could. He took on each task with a calm demeanor, quickly understood the goals and objectives and ran with it.
It’s so refreshing to work with someone that can take an idea and make it better than what was initially imagined.
He’s a rare gem that has an amazing eye for design, understands great UX principles, an extremely talented UI artist, and then ON TOP OF ALL THAT… execute the work in Unity like a true technical artist could.
He’s a great human so if you have the opportunity to have him on your team, do it!
Matt Townsend
Studio Director @ EA Mobile
Gilberto did amazing work building UI/UX for several products. Not only a great team player, his attention to detail and ownership made him both a reliable and aspirational development partner.
I would bring Gilberto onto any project that I knew I needed great results on, and look forward to working with him again in the future.
Rupert Meghnot
Ceo & Founder of Burnout Game Ventures
Gilberto was an ideal contributor and designer for our various logos. He offered seveal ideas, and listened carefully to our feedback, implementing it without hesitation. Will continue using his services.
María Alejandra Small
Account Director @ DLB Group Venezuela
Working with Gilberto Martinez was an enriching experience, not only for his creative work but also for virtues like: honesty, companionship, meeting deadlines, excellent finishes in all his artwork and getting involved in each project he works on.
Resume
Here's a few highlights from my resume. For my full resume click here
Education
Master of Science in Game Design
2014 - 2015
Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL
Who knew you could go to school to study games? In this program I learned about sofware development methodologies, game design and how my skills could be applied towards game development. While I was taking classes, working on projects and game jams it became clear that User Interface was the area of games where I would direct my career. Working in a real game studio, with a team of developers, designers and artists allowed me to hit the ground running in my professional career.
Bachelors of Graphic Design
2002 - 2007
Universidad Nueva Esparta, Caracas, Venezuela
During my bachelor's degree, I started my career as a graphic designer working in advertising. I did print ads, billboards, promotional pieces and branding. Progressively I started discovering web design and animation, leaning my path towards interactive media. I created websites and multimedia presentations for corporate clients and eventually, apps. This made my transitions into games very natural and fun.
Professional Experience
Senior UI/UX Designer
03/2023 - 05/2024
1st Playable Productions, Remote
- Working as a UI and UX designer both in console and mobile. My work with 1st Playable has been really interesting as it has involved several products both in entertainment and education. Each project has different needs, some require UI art specifically and others require a more technical art and implementation in engine. Finally, some projects allow me to get involved in the whole process from the UX design all the way to implementation and playtesting.
- Project: Pickleball Smash - In this project I was tasked with defining the UI art style for the game as well as exporting art for Unity
Senior UI Artist
06/2022 - 01/2023
Monumental Games, Remote
- Working with a UX team generating designs for improvements and new features for existing games. Collaborating with engineers and VFX artists to implement features in Unity.
- Project: Mythgard - Main UI designer for the project. Reviewing design documentation, updating the UI art style and making art for new game features, to then implement those designs in Unity. Multiplatform building and optimization.
UI Artist > Senior UI Artist
05/2021 - 06/2022
Electronic Arts, Foster City, CA
- Taking ideas from concepts and wireframes, through the design process, and finally to fully implemented features using Unity.
- Project: Tap Sports Baseball '22 '21 - While at EA we developed new features for the project like the customization for the user's avatar and profile, while continuing to improve the flow and UX of the game.
UI Artist
06/2015 - 05/2021
Glu Mobile, Long Beach/Foster City, CA
- Defining UI flows and UI art style, creating marketing art, iconography and working on full fledged features from design to building prefabs in Unity and coordinating a hand off to the engineering team
- Project: Tap Sports Baseball '21 '20 '19 '18 - I started working with TSB as a marketing artist in 2018, later becoming more involved with the product.
In 2020, I was directly involved in the project's UI Art,and later proceeded to build new features and overall UI improvements, brand identity, UI prototypes, prefab construction, animation and bug fixing. - Project: WWE Universe, UI art and 2D art support
- Project: Undisclosed racing game. I joined this team as the game was already in development. I worked on finalizing and updating the UI art style, defining the flow of the core loop together with the game's designer and PM. I implemented the UI while keeping to best practices established by the team's engineers.
Software & Skills
Here's a quick list of the main skills and software I work with