Brian Saunders
product designer and builder living in Chicago. I love being a designer and can't imagine not wanting to learn new things. AI has only made me better at what I do.
What I’m up to these days
Learning Rive
I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Rive and decided to see if it was any fun. And it is. Motion design is uniquely challenging and pushing me to think differently as a designer. I even grabbed a couple animation books to see if I can pick up any useful tips.
Making Figma widgets and plugins
I got into Figma widget and plugin development and have been enjoying the learning process. I published my first widget to the Figma community and also made an internal widget to help our our UX team conduct heuristic analyses on user experiences.
Reading books about explorers
I feel like I'm entering my explorers era about 25 years too late, but I'm enjoying it nonetheless. Endurance by Alfred Lansing (1959) is a great book! It perfectly illustrates how a plain style of reporting can be incredibly thrilling when the story itself is thrilling.