/about
Hi, I'm Brent
I'm a Digital Product Designer who is just as comfortable in Vim as Figma.
I'm working at Spanx where I'm Lead Digital Product Designer.
Since 2010, I’ve worked for, with, at, and around tech companies in the NYC area.
I love making digital products.
/now
last updated: 10/2/2024
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
- drafting Tales From Around The System a (small) anthology of short stories
Reading
The Sunlit Man
Playing
Baldur's Gate 3 on PlayStation 5
Watching
The Wire, Season 3
/interests
- JavaScript
- Android
- sci-fi
- programming
- augmented reality
- writing
- watches
- industrial design
- video games
- cosmology
- Apple
- reading
- Svelte
- cooking
- iPad
- macOS
- app design
- photography
- PlayStation
- smartphones
- mixed-reality
- architecture
- drawing
- React
- graphic novels
- astronomy
- web design
- iPadOS
- interior design
- mechanical keyboards
- tech
- movies
- iPhone
- iOS
/uses
Hardware
iPhone 16 Pro
new
16" MacBook Pro
13" iPad Pro
new
Kindle Paperwhite
AirPods Pro 2
LG C1
Pixel 4a
Keychron K6
PlayStation 5
Dell P2715Q
Dell UltraSharp U2720Q
Apple Watch
Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer
Sony WH1000XM3
Synology DS212j
Software
Obsidian
Reader
iTerm
Arc
Copilot
Figma
Slack
Soulver
Bartender
1Password
Hazel
Magnet
Homerow
Raycast
/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.