/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 and often do it for fun.

/now

last updated: 1/11/2025

Doing

learn piano goal: 250+ practice hours for 2025
write a novel goal: first draft complete by October

Reading

Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

Playing

Silent Hill 2 Remake on PlayStation 5

Watching

NBA basketball, '24 - '25 season

/interests

astronomy
Apple
PlayStation
sci-fi
iPad
interior design
mixed-reality
web design
writing
photography
graphic novels
app design
video games
tech
smartphones
Google
piano
augmented reality
architecture
industrial design
cosmology
Svelte
macOS
cooking
iPadOS
iPhone
React
JavaScript
Android
reading
movies
watches
programming
iOS

/uses

Hardware

Keychron K6
Dell UltraSharp U2720Q
AirPods Pro 2
Sony WH1000XM3
13" iPad Pro
Pixel 4a
Dell P2715Q
iPhone 16 Pro

new
PlayStation 5
Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer
Kindle Paperwhite
Synology DS212j
WHOOP

new
LG C1
16" MacBook Pro

Software

Copilot
Hazel
iTerm
Obsidian
Slack
Figma
Aerospace
Arc
Soulver
1Password
Reader
Raycast
SketchyBar
Mouseless

/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.