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112        <h1 id="hello-im-brian-and-im-a-designer"><strong>Hello, I'm Brian and I'm a designer.</strong></h1><p>I am a design leader and part time bagel-maker from the Pacific Northwest. I'm the author of <em>Mobile Design &amp; Development</em>, I teach design at the University of Washington and co-host the popular design podcast <em>Designer&amp;Designer</em>.</p><p>I'm probably best known for my work in mobile design, but I've never limited myself to that. I love improving peoples lives through great design. I've led everything from startup to enterprise, consumer to B2B apps, digital transformation programs, voice-based devices, autonomous vehicles, retail spaces, you name it.</p><p>As a result, I do it all – the ultimate design player/coach so to speak. I design, I code, I lead research and strategy, anything to move programs forward to helping people. I use the same balance of human-centered design principles, technical expertise, bias for action and out of the box thinking on everything I do.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide"><div class="kg-gallery-container"><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://fling.design/content/images/2022/07/blue-flavor-01-1.jpg" width="1704" height="1279" loading="lazy" alt srcset="https://fling.design/content/images/size/w600/2022/07/blue-flavor-01-1.jpg 600w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1000/2022/07/blue-flavor-01-1.jpg 1000w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1600/2022/07/blue-flavor-01-1.jpg 1600w, https://fling.design/content/images/2022/07/blue-flavor-01-1.jpg 1704w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://fling.design/content/images/2022/07/419120468_fa37ebeb82.jpg" width="333" height="499" loading="lazy" alt></div></div></div></figure><p>Previously, I founded and led the product studios, Blue Flavor (acquired by Blink UX) and pinch/zoom as well as the startup studio Sasqtch. I grew each of these companies into multimillion dollar businesses, recruiting and managing a team of amazing designers, engineers and product managers to design and build award winning products. Together, our work positively impacted hundreds of millions of people.</p><p>I've led programs for Adobe, Amazon, AI2, BBC, Best Buy, Boeing, Delta, Disney, Evernote, Google, HSBC, MailChimp, NBC/Universal, The New York Times, Oprah, PayPal, Salesforce and many others. </p><p>I've led workshops and lectures on five continents. And I've led digital transformation strategies for several Fortune 500 companies and even the federal and local governments.</p><p>I live in Seattle with my partner <a href="http://catleah.com/?ref=fling.design">Catleah</a>, my two children PJ and Zouzou, and our Yorkie Ringo.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-gallery-card kg-width-wide"><div class="kg-gallery-container"><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://fling.design/content/images/2022/07/IMG_0421.jpeg" width="2000" height="1500" loading="lazy" alt srcset="https://fling.design/content/images/size/w600/2022/07/IMG_0421.jpeg 600w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1000/2022/07/IMG_0421.jpeg 1000w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1600/2022/07/IMG_0421.jpeg 1600w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w2400/2022/07/IMG_0421.jpeg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://fling.design/content/images/2022/07/IMG_3410.jpeg" width="2000" height="1569" loading="lazy" alt srcset="https://fling.design/content/images/size/w600/2022/07/IMG_3410.jpeg 600w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1000/2022/07/IMG_3410.jpeg 1000w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1600/2022/07/IMG_3410.jpeg 1600w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w2400/2022/07/IMG_3410.jpeg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://fling.design/content/images/2022/07/IMG_5577.jpeg" width="2000" height="2667" loading="lazy" alt srcset="https://fling.design/content/images/size/w600/2022/07/IMG_5577.jpeg 600w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1000/2022/07/IMG_5577.jpeg 1000w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1600/2022/07/IMG_5577.jpeg 1600w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w2400/2022/07/IMG_5577.jpeg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div></div><div class="kg-gallery-row"><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://fling.design/content/images/2022/07/P3270713.jpeg" width="2000" height="1597" loading="lazy" alt srcset="https://fling.design/content/images/size/w600/2022/07/P3270713.jpeg 600w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1000/2022/07/P3270713.jpeg 1000w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w1600/2022/07/P3270713.jpeg 1600w, https://fling.design/content/images/size/w2400/2022/07/P3270713.jpeg 2400w" sizes="(min-width: 720px) 720px"></div><div class="kg-gallery-image"><img src="https://fling.design/content/images/2022/07/IMG_2382.jpeg" width="2000" height="2395" loading="lazy" alt srcset="https://fling.design/content/images/size/w600/2022/07/IMG_2382.jpeg 

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