/about
Hi, I'm Brent
I'm a Digital Product Designer who is just as comfortable in Vim as Figma.
Right now, I'm Lead Digital Product Designer at Spanx.
Since 2010, I’ve worked for, with, at, and around tech companies in the NYC area.
I love making digital products.
/now
last updated: 10/27/2024
Doing
- learning piano goal: 400 practice hours in 2024
- maintaining bundle a simple link-based list maker/sharer
- building a writing-related app transform excerpts from existing writing into prompts for new writing
- editing Tales From Around The System a (small) anthology of short stories
Reading
A draft novel
Playing
Balatro on iOS
Watching
NBA basketball, '24 - '25 season
/interests
- drawing
- watches
- app design
- programming
- reading
- photography
- macOS
- PlayStation
- JavaScript
- smartphones
- interior design
- cooking
- mixed-reality
- sci-fi
- iOS
- tech
- React
- video games
- Apple
- Svelte
- writing
- movies
- iPad
- iPadOS
- augmented reality
- Android
- iPhone
- mechanical keyboards
- cosmology
- graphic novels
- architecture
- web design
- industrial design
- astronomy
/uses
Hardware
WHOOP
new
16" MacBook Pro
13" iPad Pro
new
Kindle Paperwhite
Synology DS212j
AirPods Pro 2
PlayStation 5
Dell UltraSharp U2720Q
Dell P2715Q
iPhone 16 Pro
new
LG C1
Keychron K6
Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer
Sony WH1000XM3
Pixel 4a
Software
Obsidian
Arc
Figma
Reader
Bartender
Magnet
1Password
Slack
Copilot
Homerow
Soulver
Raycast
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.