Hey, I’m Brayden.
Making everyday things a little more enjoyable.
Product designer interested in people, emerging technology, and the tiny interactions that make products feel good to use. I’m currently finishing my BFA in User Experience Design at SCAD, with experience designing enterprise software at IBM in Austin.
Making focus feel a little easier.
Students don’t need another app telling them to focus. A 10-week project on planning, motivation, and breaks worth taking—built from a 30-student survey and tested with 23 more. Indigo Design Award winner.
See what happened →
Slack hides its own state.
A 10-week study of two everyday Slack tasks most participants couldn’t finish— and often thought they had. Two small changes to language and system state took success rates from 3/8 and 2/8 to 8/8.
Read the study →
A summer designing enterprise software.
Designing within an existing product, team, and design system taught me what happens when design has to survive contact with the real world — constraints I didn’t choose, systems that already had opinions, and engineers with good reasons.
My summer at IBM →