Brad Thomas

Building Markur: A Location-Based Community Platform Powered by AI Development Tools

In an increasingly digital world, I set out to create something that would bridge the gap between online communities and physical exploration. The result is Markur.app (https://markur.app), a location-based social platform that gamifies real-world discovery.

The Binary Problem: Design and AI Co-existing

In the world of digital creation, there’s a fundamental difference between development and design that’s often overlooked. Development operates in a binary world; things either work or they don’t. Design, however, lives in the land of infinite gray areas.

Reinventing EPRI: Transforming Energy Research Through Digital Design

EPRI, as an independent nonprofit organization conducting energy and environmental research, serves everyone from utility executives to policy makers to researchers. Their digital presence needed to reflect both their scientific authority and their role in shaping the future of clean energy.

Designing a Scalable, Mobile-First E-commerce Experience for Phantom Fireworks

Phantom Fireworks, a well-known brand in the pyrotechnics industry, approached me with a focused challenge: create a mobile-first e-commerce experience for their flagship domain, Fireworks.com.

Forecasting the web: UX and UI will change with AI ubiquity

AI replacing designers? Not so fast.

Designers, Times they are a-changing

If you seen or read the news in this last few years, A.I. has caused us all to be a bit shaken. It's a paradigm shift that we haven't seen since the rise of the internet; many folks working in the industry now have never experienced something like this – a true change in the way we all work.

Solving the Right Problem: The Heart of Effective Design

This is the first article in a series about the Design Process.

Defining Success: Setting SMART Goals in Design Projects

This is the second article in a series about the Design Process.