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Hey, I’m Brian.
I’m a product designer, podcaster, and writer, currently living in San Francisco. Right now I’m building native mobile apps at GitHub.
Writing
I like to think out loud about design, development, and building products.
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Fun Projects
Little weekend hacks for fun and learning.
Internet things, saved for later.
Ask me anything.
A better Hacker News.
Design Details Podcast
Design Details is a weekly conversation about design process and culture. I’ve been a co-host on the show for over five years.
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Figma plugins
There’s a lot of work in the design process that is boring, tedious, and repetitive. I like to make plugins to help automate it away.
Generate a palette from an image to magically populate your designs.
Quickly test your designs across multiple device sizes.
Applies the correct export settings for every required iOS App Icon size and density.
Easily export assets from Figma directly into a .zip file.
Populate data from GitHub into Figma mocks
Open source work
The code that powers designdetails.fm.
The code that powers this website you’re looking at.
A checklist for staying safe on the internet.
Simple, powerful online communities.
A podcast network to help designers and developers level up.
Speaking and interviews
Ryan Nystrom and I talk about designing and building the mobile apps at GitHub.
An exploration into the plugins I built to automate the tedious parts of designing mobile apps at GitHub.
Exploring the possibilities that open up when designers and developers can speak the same language.
An interview about how I got into design, my process, and past work.
Bryn Jackson and I interviewed each other. Totally humble.
App Dissection
In-depth explorations of visual and interaction design in well-known apps.