CLAUDE B.
Senior UX DesignerContent creator
Dad in Atlanta, GAChicago next
Working on an AI R&B albumYes, really
Empathetic by nature. Not by trade.
Before any of this
I was a pastor
for ten years
People have all kinds of experiences with pastors, good and bad. But whatever yours is, the job is built around one thing. You're supposed to be someone who can care about people without it being a whole effort.
You don't do that for ten years unless it's somewhere in you.
Seven years ago I moved into tech. Honestly, the job didn't change that much.
Since then
CGI
the through line has always been people
So why am I telling you this?
Ministry and UX aren't obvious neighbours. But both come down to the same thing, which is actually understanding people. Ten years of it built habits I still use daily. Listening first. Meeting people where they are. Finding what someone needs underneath what they're saying.
You're not just getting a designer who cares about users. You're getting one who brings the same energy to the people building it.
More about me →Selected work
Case studies written like documentaries
At this point in my career you can probably assume I can do the work. What's harder to show in a portfolio is the rest of it — how I handle a brief that keeps moving, a decision I disagree with, a room I wasn't invited to.
So I wrote these as stories instead of process. Same projects, told the way they actually went.
Everyone loved it. Nobody could act on the real problem.
What started as a discovery call for one small app turned into a map of five products and a much bigger idea.
They asked for a better inbox. Nobody asked why.
A promise made in a meeting we weren't in decided the answer before we'd finished asking the question.
The UI was fine. The structure underneath it wasn't.
Assigned one feature, I found a content structure with no limits on it. On a phone, at the counter, it fell apart.
Content creator
I'm doing a thing over here.
Fatherhood, design, and figuring it out in public. Same instinct as the work, different room.
No agenda, no posting schedule. Just showing up and documenting the parts I'm still working out.
See more content →@claudeb.online
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