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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.

13 min readFeb 11, 2023

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

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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…

14 min readNov 13, 2021

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

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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…

5 min readJul 7, 2023

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Making NVM work with Fish shell in 2023

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An interactice React state & memoization sandbox

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

2 min readJan 13, 2023

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An interactice React state & memoization sandbox

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Brandon S.

Creating a custom icon generator for MUI

MUI & the library of Material Design icons

12 min readFeb 12, 2022

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

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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…

1 min readJan 30, 2022

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

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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.

16 min readNov 15, 2021

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A Material UI whodunnit, a la Knives Out

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

The frustration, a.k.a. user “pain”

6 min readNov 3, 2021

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

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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…

16 min readAug 5, 2021

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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.

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Brandon S.

Designing for your audience

Designing products is fickle. Everyone has an opinion.

13 min readJul 22, 2021

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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.

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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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