Open to UX roles and freelance projects

I’m Dan Brandt, a UX designer in Kansas City. My newest app, Doto, is a home screen for Android, live on Google Play.

See my work↓Résumé (PDF)
dbdoo.dev/level
Bid Tracker dashboard with project cards and budget bars
Wide editor: photos arranged across two carousel slides with a red line where the slides meet
Doto home screen: apps and round widgets placed freely on a dark dotted background
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Selected work

Three projects I designed and built.

01 · Android home screen

Doto Launcher

A home screen with no grid, designed from scratch and shipped on Google Play.

You put apps and widgets anywhere on one open canvas and remember where things are, the way you remember a room. Early testers shaped most of the big design changes.

Status
Live on Google Play
Role
Solo project: design and development

Read the case study→

Doto home screen: apps and round widgets placed freely on a dark dotted background

02 · Mobile photo editor

Wide

Instagram carousels designed as one wide image, on a phone.

Most tools make you design each slide on its own and hope the edges line up. Wide shows the whole strip at once, with every cut marked.

Status
In beta
Role
Solo project: design and development

Read the case study→

Wide editor: photos arranged across two carousel slides with a red line where the slides meet

03 · Client project

Bid Tracker

A contractor’s spreadsheets and text threads, turned into one tool.

A bid and cost tracker built on the Google Sheet the business already trusted, so nothing had to move. The client uses it every day.

Status
In daily use
Role
Design and development, working directly with the owner

Read the case study→

dbdoo.dev
Bid Tracker dashboard with project cards and budget bars

Also built

  • NinKeys

    A swipe keyboard for iPhone, rebuilt from a well-loved app that had been abandoned.

  • Client websites

    Sites for an artisan metalworker, a children's nature book series and a speech therapy practice.

About

The long way back to design

Previously

  • Technical support · Sunlighten2025 – 2026
  • Sales and technical consulting · Google Fiber2022 – 2023
  • Media production · Life Time2018 – 2019
  • Graphic and web design, A.A.S. · Hennepin Technical College2014 – 2018

I studied graphic and web design, then spent several years working next to technology instead of designing it. I produced training webinars, sold and set up internet service, and walked sauna owners through wiring diagrams over the phone.

Support work showed me, one call at a time, where people get stuck, and how much of it comes down to how a product explains itself.

In 2024 I took a full stack development bootcamp, and in 2026 I started designing and shipping my own apps. I use AI tools to write code faster, which leaves more of my time for design and for testing with real people.

I’m most useful when a product needs one person who can decide how it should work, and then make it work.

Contact

Say hello.

Email me with a little context about the role or the project. A short note is plenty.

Hiring

For employers

I’m looking for a full-time UX or product design role. My résumé has the short version of everything on this page.

Résumé (PDF)LinkedIn

Projects

For businesses

I design and build apps and websites for small businesses, and hand them over working, like Bid Tracker. Tell me what is confusing your customers or your team.

Email me