/about
Hi, I'm Brent
I'm a Digital Product Designer who is just as comfortable in Vim as Figma.
Right now, I'm Director of Digital Product Design at Spanx.
Since 2010, I’ve worked for, with, at, and around tech companies in the NYC area.
I love making digital products and often do it for fun.
/now
last updated: 4/12/2025
Doing
- drafting a novel 37k+ words written, late October ETA
- working on a WBS feature fumbling through using d3.js
- learning piano goal: 250+ practice hours for 2025
Reading
Morning Star
Playing
Not much on anything
Watching
Random YT videos
/interests
- reading
- writing
- JavaScript
- astronomy
- PlayStation
- sci-fi
- app design
- watches
- web design
- graphic novels
- piano
- iPad
- Svelte
- cooking
- React
- interior design
- iPhone
- mixed-reality
- augmented reality
- Apple
- iPadOS
- iOS
- movies
- cosmology
- macOS
- Android
- programming
- tech
- smartphones
- architecture
- photography
- video games
- industrial design
/uses
Hardware
Dell P2715Q
WHOOP
Keychron K6
Synology DS212j
LG C1
Pixel 4a
13" iPad Pro
iPhone 16 Pro
Kindle Paperwhite
Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer
PlayStation 5
16" MacBook Pro
AirPods Pro 2
Dell UltraSharp U2720Q
Sony WH1000XM3
Software
1Password
SketchyBar
Zen
Soulver
Raycast
Obsidian
Reader
Copilot
Slack
Figma
Mouseless
Aerospace
Hazel
iTerm
/colophon
whatbrentdo is a collection of slash pages designed in Figma, built with Svelte 5 and SvelteKit, and served via nginx from a DigitalOcean VPS. The source code can be found on github.