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Brady Starr

Brady Starr

Product designer for complex tools, dashboards and brands

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Cumberland, USA

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Cumberland, USA

Three blogs, a cover for every post. I design and run the blogs for TasteOS, pirch and tab, and each one looks like its own product. TasteOS paints its mascot into every scene. pirch gives each post one small object and publishes original research with its sources. tab pairs practical notes for freelancers with art that never repeats a medium. Case study: https://bradyux.com/portfolio/blogs/
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impasto: an iPad oil painting app where the paint has real thickness. I trained as a painter at the Schuler School, and digital paint always skipped the part I loved: the weight of a loaded brush, paint that's still wet tomorrow, a surface you can sand, glaze and varnish. In impasto the paint has height, mixes the way pigment does, and dries on its own clock. To put it through its paces, an AI painter worked through a set of test paintings in the app, sitting by sitting, while I coached it the way I was taught. Everything in this film is the app's own output. Each painting's colour and paint thickness came straight out of impasto and was lit in 3D, so the ridges you see are the real ones. The panels are the real interface. Free beta on iPad with Apple Pencil: impasto.bradyux.com
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Blurt: an app builder you talk to. A concept for teens and anyone who learns differently: you say what you want, it builds it step by step, and the next idea is always one big button. Four research reports came first, then a design system with one rule (the tool stays quiet, your app is the star), then three rounds of testing. Shelved on purpose, and still one of my favourite pieces of thinking. https://bradyux.com/experiments/blurt/
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A rulebook, not a template. Most startup marketing is one template on repeat. For tab, our freelance time tracker, we wrote rules instead, and every poster has to follow all of them: The logo leads. tab doesn't have one logo, it has thirty-three. The screen is real. A poster is a promise, so the product has to keep it. Never the same look twice. Only say what's true this week. Every poster gets its own landing page, built from the same art, with a real clock you can start right there. Every link is tagged, so we know which room people walked in from. Fourteen posters so far, no two alike. Watch the tour above. Follow along: Tab Work on Instagram and Facebook, Tab on LinkedIn, or try it free at tabwork.app (http://tabwork.app)
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