@josephbrueggen

Hello, my name is Joe.

I'm a product designer working on the future of legal technology—currently leading design for Ediscovery search facilities at csDISCO. I work with brilliant cross-functional partners to create thoughtful user experiences. I'm focused on designing responsible solutions that genuinely improve lives.

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About me

📚 → Full-time creative professional with a small business side hustle

🗳️  → Intrigued by the confluence of politics, class, economics, and history

⚖️  → Committed to nudging society toward a more equitable future

👟 → Casual but obsessed runner, always improving

🧠 → Business-minded, always learning

🥘 → Probably enjoying Peruvian cuisine right now

What's happening?

Updated February 2025

🎧 → In rotation: berlioz / Jungle / Doechii / 1999 WRITE THE FUTURE

🩰 → Reached four years lending design skills to support my partner’s local dance studio

🏃🏻‍♂️  → On pace to run 300 miles in 2025 — double my previous record!

Creative methodology

Designers are uniquely positioned to shape society. Therefore, good design is meticulous in its pursuit of responsible solutions. In creating user experiences, I’m committed to craft and serving a larger vision—I focus on building accessible, scalable solutions for long-term, positive social impact. I do this by developing relationships with users, leveraging data to inform design decisions, prioritizing well-written documentation and team comms… and altogether driving deep, cross-functional collaboration that helps everybody win.

Causes I'm supporting

I have a responsibility to promote and empower the people doing society's most impactful work. I'm privileged to redirect 6% of my monthly income to an array of organizations whose work I value. I’m sharing this snapshot because these organizations reflect my values, and understanding my values is key to understanding me as a person.

🇺🇸 → ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

📚 → Center for Reproductive Rights

⚖️ → EJI (Equal Justice Initiative)

🎓 → Guadalupe Center of Immokalee

💣  → Not Another Bomb

✊🏼 → Planned Parenthood

🗞️  → ProPublica

🇺🇸  → Raices

🥗  → Second Harvest Food Bank

✊🏼 → SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center)

💜 → The Trevor Project

🍅  → United Farm Workers

🇺🇸  → United We Dream

🌐  → Wikimedia Foundation

🗳️  → Working Families Party

Currently reading

Updated May 2025

📙 → Hope in the Dark

📕 → How Fascism Works

📘 → Open Veins of Latin America

Venture by Design

This pet project newsletter is on pause for now, but I’ll be transitioning old posts to live on this site in the future.

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