UX & Code | opinions & scribbles

UX & Code | opinions & scribbles

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Brandon S.

Building high-performing, cross-functional design teams with real-time designer × developer pairing

Designers don’t need a formal process in order to be successful. They need communication, trust, and frequent, lightweight collaboration.

Feb 11, 2023

A comic / drawing showing two awesome pair-programmers working at a computer at night time.

Feb 11, 2023

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Design, even with the best intentions, considered harmful

We seem to be speaking more and more of how design (or the absence of), particularly data-driven design, can be harmful—what with the…

Nov 13, 2021

A desk with a laptop and a “Do no harm” sign.

Nov 13, 2021

Brandon S.

Making NVM work with Fish shell in 2023

In the vast sea of shell options, Fish stands out with its user-friendly autocomplete, elegant syntax, portable functions, and pretty…

Jul 7, 2023

Making NVM work with Fish shell in 2023

Jul 7, 2023

Brandon S.

An interactice React state & memoization sandbox

Demystifying how and when React decides to (re-)render components

Jan 13, 2023

An interactice React state & memoization sandbox

Jan 13, 2023

Brandon S.

Creating a custom icon generator for MUI

MUI & the library of Material Design icons

Feb 12, 2022

A snippet of code from the MUI icon generated by this project.

Feb 12, 2022

Brandon S.

It’s not enough to know what the future is, you have to know what it means 🚀

And of course, all good things must come to an end. After more than 8 years tackling APIs and digital transformation at Apigee + Google…

Jan 30, 2022

It’s not enough to know what the future is, you have to know what it means 🚀

Jan 30, 2022

Brandon S.

The mysterious case of the disappearance of MUI’s makeStyles()

A tale of intrigue, CSS, and suspense — a sensational uncovering of a legacy deprecation that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Nov 15, 2021

A Material UI whodunnit, a la Knives Out

Nov 15, 2021

Brandon S.

What if Figma adopted flexbox & CSS grid in auto-layout?

The frustration, a.k.a. user “pain”

Nov 3, 2021

The desired state of my layout, but this one is manually laid out.

Nov 3, 2021

Brandon S.

Product case study | Turn-key user management for no-code API portals

Client: Greymatter* Goal: Improve coverage for customer needs Project: User management for no-code API portals Notable launch impact…

Aug 5, 2021

Top-left (green): Customer X’s users/API consumers. They use the portal user UI (front-end) and its counterpart API (back-end). Top-right (red), adjacent to the portal user UI/API: the portal admin UI/API for API producers (Customer X’s API program managers). Below everything is dotted line separating all of Greymatter’s internal API management platform, because API consumers are unaware of (and never use) the Greymatter system.

Aug 5, 2021

Brandon S.

Designing for your audience

Designing products is fickle. Everyone has an opinion.

Jul 22, 2021

The design thinking diamond model; you can Google just that, “design thinking diamond model” and read about the double diamond design model of divergence, convergence, divergence, and convergence.

Jul 22, 2021

UX & Code | opinions & scribbles

Brandon is a veteran product designer & software engineer. He lives in Victoria, BC with his family and several cats. Brandon is open to work 👉 💼 https://portfolio.brandonscript.design

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