What's up! I'm Braden, a design researcher & strategist.

I study people to inform business decisions.

generative design research

Improving life on military bases

We helped discover opportunities to improve life on base for active duty military and their families.

Service design research

We helped identify opportunities for field engineers to more efficiently troubleshoot industrial automation systems.

Co-design research

We helped a large bank prioritize new features for their online banking platform based on customer needs.

UX Research

We helped the State of Ohio redesign their Foster Care & Adoption website to attract and educate potential foster parents.

Service Design

We helped a bank redesign their wire transfer service to catch up to the industry standards of money movement.

Evaluative research

We partnered with a large regional bank to conduct a few rounds of iterative usability testing for various different design concepts.

Service Design

I led a project to map out the flow of information at a nonprofit in order to establish better working processes.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

I worked on various projects investigating how human infants develop language and object recognition.