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Brian Saunders

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 pushing me to think about solving problems in different ways.

Making Figma widgets and plugins

I got into Figma widget and plugin development and have been enjoying making small tools to help the design and research teams at Paylocity.

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.