I’m Brian Saunders, a product designer and tinkerer living in Chicago. I design platform-level AI features for Paylocity, and enjoy reading and writing. I love being a designer and can’t imagine not wanting to learn new things.

Paylocity’s native mobile apps
Pitched new mobile apps to Paylocity leadership and was the lead designer through MVP launch.
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Uniform gradient tools
Designed and coded an experimental web app for creating and working with gradients in uniform color spaces, with an accompanying Figma plugin.
Uniform gradient tools
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Paylocity’s new color system
Created a multi-theme color system for Paylocity’s new product design language.
Paylocity’s new color system
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Paylocity’s design system reboot
Led the strategy and rebuild of Paylocity’s new multi-platform design system.
Paylocity’s design system reboot
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New hire onboarding mobile feature
Brought Paylocity’s new hire onboarding experience to its mobile app for the first time.
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Heuristic analysis FigJam widget
Built a FigJam widget for analyzing and critiquing designs using Paylocity’s heuristic evaluation framework.
Heuristic analysis FigJam widget
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