design til
it's right!
Welcome to my portfolio — a collection of my design work & development projects.
I'm Eli Pretto-Sotelo, a UX Designer and Frontend Developer who believes in iterating until every pixel feels intentional.
Learn more about me →Selected Projects
Look at all these things I've been cooking up ✦
Conduit
Multimodal accessibility platform that unifies EEG, gaze tracking, voice detection, and ASL recognition into one adaptive interface built in 36 hours.
Labeling
Redesigned Materia's image labeling widget with full WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, responsive layouts, and modern UI for 50,000+ students.
Experience
Look at all the cool places I've worked at ✦
UX/UI Designer & Software Engineer
UCF Center of Distributed Learning
Oct. 2025 – Present
Designing and developing for Materia, an open-source lesson-gamifying platform, bridging the gap between UX/UI design and hands-on front-end development.
Design Director
Knight Hacks
Jan. 2026 – Mar. 2026
Led design efforts for UCF's largest software engineering club and its premier Hackathon, Knight Hacks, ensuring a positive and enriching experience for all participants.
UX/UI Design & Web Development Intern
C² Technologies
Aug. 2025 – Oct. 2025
Supported C² Technologies' adaptable learning platform, Adapt2Learn, through UX/UI design and digital marketing asset creation.
Skills & Tools
The stuff I actually use day-to-day.
Design
- ✦UI/UX Design
- ✦Prototyping
- ✦Design Systems
- ✦User Research
- ✦Figma
- ✦Adobe Creative Suite
Development
- ✦React / Next.js
- ✦TypeScript
- ✦HTML/CSS
- ✦Tailwind CSS
- ✦Git & GitHub
- ✦Responsive Design
Process
- ✦Agile Methodologies
- ✦Design Thinking
- ✦Wireframing
- ✦Accessibility (a11y)
- ✦Cross-functional Teams
- ✦Documentation