I'm Brad Cooper, a UX strategist, accessibility evangelist, fediverse advocate, amateur photographer, and former animator with a passion for research, testing, and scribbling on whiteboards & sticky notes.

I think of myself as an artist first, with extensive experience in design thinking, facilitation, interaction, and experience design. I have a deep understanding of the processes, methods, and technologies that support my craft.

Portfolio

I've created a lot of deliverables to help through the design process covering everything from Qualitative Interviews, Facilitation, and Strategy Documents to Brand Development, Design Systems, and Visual Design. Here's a collection of some of those things:

From the blog

Every once in a while I get motivated to write some of my thoughts. Of the hundreds of articles I've started to write, some of them actually make it online, like these. I haven't bothered to move over my archive of old blogs (I've run a number over the years) so you'll have to settle for this new stuff. Do I talk about a particular topic? Not really, but I'm hoping you find them interesting, if you do, you can find some more in my blog archive.

December 3, 2019 · 11 min read

Cold-calling every print shop in the city

One day it dawned on me. I was a tad desperate, but calling every print shop in the city seemed like a good idea and actually lead me to design work.

March 27, 2020 · 4 min read

Bartering for design services is an option

I attempted to buy a used car and walked out with an agreement to barter design services for it instead.

May 19, 2019 · 8 min read

Creating Generative Art with p5.js

My complete thought process and code examples while I made some generative art using P5.js

Case Studies

If you've never had to write a case study before, I'm envious. It takes a good bit of work - especially since I tend to go really lengthy with my writing. As of today, you'll just have to settle for this one. It's probably a couple more weeks out until I get these other two out. So I hope you really like this first one.

Awesome eBikes

Transitioning from what looked like a hobbyist's endeavor into a credible, established business through brand workshops and user validation.

TOR

The Tor website didn't align with user expectations. This redesign creates a more unique and valuable online presence catering to new users that would most benefit from the service that it offers.

Jecture

The design process is messy. Jecture helps to capture, automate and organize insights from research data to help craft better products, build confidence in findings, and eliminate bias.

Photography

Yes, you're probably here for other things, but I'm not going to miss out on an opportunity to promote my photography. If you want to know more about how I've been taking and sharing a photo every day for almost 3 years, read my blog - 500 days of photos. Here are some random photos from the last year. If you really like them, maybe you'd consider buying one of my NFTs on OpenSea