/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: 5/11/2025
Doing
- drafting a novel 46k+ words written, late December ETA
- learning piano goal: 250+ practice hours for 2025
- WBS feature: Seekers pogress tracker simple stats and spoiler-light excerpts
- WBS feature: 339 Hours Later year 1 piano practice retrospective and data viz
Reading
Fourth Wing
Playing
Nothing
Watching
Random YT videos
/interests
- piano
- video games
- graphic novels
- industrial design
- iOS
- macOS
- iPhone
- cosmology
- watches
- astronomy
- photography
- architecture
- cooking
- interior design
- tech
- writing
- reading
- movies
- React
- smartphones
- augmented reality
- programming
- Android
- iPadOS
- iPad
- sci-fi
- JavaScript
- PlayStation
- app design
- Apple
- mixed-reality
- Svelte
- web design
/uses
Hardware
WHOOP
Dell UltraSharp U2720Q
Sony WH1000XM3
iPhone 16 Pro
Keychron K6
Pixel 4a
Dell P2715Q
13" iPad Pro
Synology DS212j
LG C1
16" MacBook Pro
PlayStation 5
Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer
AirPods Pro 2
Kindle Paperwhite
Software
iTerm
Reader
Slack
Raycast
Hazel
Copilot
Mouseless
Soulver
Aerospace
Zen
Obsidian
SketchyBar
Figma
1Password
/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.