Create velocity, improve consistency, and encourage best practices by using design systems

You can benefit from over 15 years experience in design and UX, 5 years in management, and 10 years in leadership. There aren't many designers who are are also great engineers.

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"I never had to worry about misplaced or missing pixels. Instead our conversations focused on taking the user experience to the next level."

Project highlights

I have worked on designs for websites, B2B and B2C SaaS, e-commerce, mobile apps, wearables, IoT, voice interfaces, mixed reality, print, and industrial design.

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Design Systems

  • GitLab
  • ngrok
  • Macrometa
  • Codefresh
  • Experts Exchange

UX Research

  • Experts Exchange
    • Navigation revamps
    • Question closing process
    • Gamification & awarding points
    • Content moderation
  • GitLab
    • Navigation revamps
    • Product marketing
  • Codefresh
    • Navigation revamps
  • ngrok
    • Competitor IA and design benchmarking

Product UI

  • Experts Exchange
    • Natural language revamp of question closing process
    • Mobile apps - passed Apple review on first try
    • Live Chat product (like Slack)
    • File storage product (like Dropbox)
    • Server rack diagramming product
    • Content moderation
    • Content creation tools
    • Onboarding experiences
    • Subscription experiences
    • Account settings, profiles, and forms

Website Content

  • Conversion paywalls
  • Custom landing pages & funnels
  • Event experiences
  • Blogs
  • Case studies
  • Partner pages
  • E-commerce systems
  • Lead generation forms
  • Cookie consent
  • Learning management
  • Search experiences
  • Architecture diagrams
  • Open graph (social sharing) images
  • Animation

Supporting Designs

  • Brand guides
  • Templates
  • Slide decks
  • Promotional marketing materials

Resources

Measuring UX ROI

It can be difficult to answer a seemingly simple question. How do you measure the ROI of design?

UX checklists for interface designers

This is a great roundup of design checklists by Smashing Magazine.

The Monster List of UX Books

This is a great curated list of books related to UX.

Color contrast accessibility myths

WCAG isn't always right, but it usually is.

Human interface guidelines

Software publishers keep best practice lists they can use to pass or fail your app. They're great resources.

Pinterest mood board

What kind of designs do I like?

Tools I've used

UXD, UXR, UI, AX, CX, GD, & brand

  • Accessibe
  • Adobe
  • Atomic Design
  • Balsamiq
  • Canva
  • Dovetail
  • Figma
  • Looppanel
  • Lottie
  • Lucidchart
  • Miro
  • Moqups
  • Optimal Workshop
  • Qualtrics
  • Percy
  • Pinterest
  • Sprig
  • Survicate
  • Storybook
  • Style Dictionary
  • Typeform
  • Userfeel
  • Userflow
  • User Interviews
  • UserTesting
  • Userway

UI Frameworks

  • Bootstrap
  • Bulma
  • Chakra
  • Material UI
  • Nord
  • Shad
  • Tailwind

Growth

  • ABTasty
  • Amplitude
  • Calconic
  • Calendly
  • Candu
  • Chilipiper
  • CrazyEgg
  • DevCycle
  • Fibr
  • Gong
  • Google Optimize
  • GrowthBook
  • Hubspot
  • LaunchDarkly
  • Marketo
  • Mida
  • Mutiny
  • Optimizely
  • OptinMonster
  • PostHog
  • Statsig
  • VWO
  • Zendesk

About Brandon

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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

  • Let's document things! Documentation benefits everyone.
  • I operate in a judgement-free zone.
  • The phrase "intent vs impact" is of high importance to me.
  • I prefer a direct approach, but I understand that others might prefer different approaches.