Brian Bureson

Product design leader building high quality products and teams through planning, collaboration, empathy, and design ❤️

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  • Recent work

    Much of my recent AI related work is confidential and not ready to share publicly. I am in the process of preparing the most recent examples of my work.

  • Design specification

    From enterprise search to AI search

    As the AI boom began we started thinking about how AI and enterprise search could coexist in a single tool at the enterprise scale. Due to the emerging tech and system complexity, It is has not been a linear path…

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  • Two smartphones display a cannabis review app. The left phone shows a jar of blueberry strain cannabis, rated with four stars. The right phone shows a close-up of a cannabis bud, rated four and a half stars, with a comment about its effects.

    Redesigning a Social Platform into a Cannabis Discovery Engine

    MassRoots is a social network app for legal cannabis enthusiasts modeled after Instagram. I joined as the Director of UX and Design to refresh the visual design, the interaction design, and introduced the ability to rate strains and products, find products using the dispensary finder, and enhanced our B2B services.

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  • Three smartphones placed on a wooden surface showing Skype Qik with young women, one skateboarding, and chat interfaces.

    0-1 design and launch of a modern video messaging app

    I led the design of the first app released by Skype besides Skype. Skype Qik was a video messaging app from Skype focused on sharing short asynchronous video messages for more casual and organic conversations.

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  • Screenshots of the Skype app on a tablet and a mobile phone, showing conversations, contacts, and chat interfaces.

    A complete redesign delivering a modern, mobile-first Skype experience

    Skype for Android 4.0 represented the culmination of over a year of planning and design, and almost 9 months of incremental delivery to achieve a completely re-architected and re-designed experience for more than 100M customers.

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  • t:slim insulin pump displaying battery level, time, date, insulin units, and menu options for bolus and options.

    Designing the first touch screen insulin pump

    I designed and delivered a world-class, award winning touch screen insulin pump. I was the first and lead designer and executed a full range of user centered design activities to ensure safe release of highly sophisticated FDA regulated product.

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