📍 Chicago, IL | 🎨 Product Designer & Design Technologist

I build design systems and apps that bring clarity and accessibility to complex problems. I'm fluent in Figma and code. I'm a Cursor evangelist and builder of big and tiny ideas.

• 🏛️ Neumo/GovOS Design System — 32 WCAG 2.2 AA components, a full token architecture (color, typography, spacing, iconography), and responsive web guidance. Powers a complete redesign of Colorado's business tax portal (200K+ taxpayers), a document e-recording platform, and platform-level authentication flows across 6+ products and 10+ dev frameworks.

• 📊 Nielsen Global Design System — 45 components and 300+ styles serving 40+ enterprise apps and 25+ designers. System included React and Web Components implementations to distribute across all tech stacks, data visualization patterns for global audience measurement dashboards, and full support for accessibility and worldwide localization including RTL.

• 🌐 bradsiefert.com — My design portfolio
• 📷 photos.bradsiefert.com — My photography portfolio
• 📖 10years.photos.bradsiefert.com — A photo book documenting my first decade of photography
• 🃏 Pokerseeker — A poker game I conceived of that combines Boggle and Poker. Hours of fun
• 💘 heybrad.lol — A dating website I built for myself to enhance my Hinge profile
• 👶 Kid Quotes — An anonomized version of a web app I of my kid's quotes and stories
• 📱 shortcuts.directory — Curated collections of the best links about Apple's Siri Shortcuts application
• 🛠️ Design Tokens Viewer — A canvas app to view and search for design tokens in a design system. (work in progress)
• 💼 Random City of Chicago Employee — A tiny app that show Random Chicago City of Chicago employee. Data from data.gov
• 🍽️ Mays Chicago Restaurant List — Football writer Robert Mays curates a Chicago restaurant list, I built a web app for it.
• 🎨 Highbeam Design System — My first design system build. Built to support an internal SaaS product called Highbeam
• 🧱 Neumorphic Starter — A neumorphic style blog/portfolio starter template

1. Great design systems aren't component libraries, they're the strategic combination of UI elements and product decisions that helps product, design, and engineering teams ship better faster.
2. Building software is never easy, but friction is removable. You can build faster and with higher quality over time if you prioritize care and discipline.
3. Having a great design system is more important than ever. Without one, AI will generate inconsistency and technical debt faster than any team can clean it up.
4. The gap between Figma and the codebase is where quality goes to die. Designers who can code or prompt can help close that gap.
5. Perfectly crafted Figma files are dead. If designers aren't creating working prototypes in code, they are wasting time.
6. AI accelerates creating more of everything. Decision making, craft, and taste are paramount.