@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

🩰 → Four years lending my design skills to support my partner’s dance studio

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

Creative methodology

Designers are uniquely positioned to influence lives and shape society. Therefore, good design must be responsible, thoughtful, and meticulous. 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 engaging with users, leveraging data to inform decisions, prioritizing well-written comms and documentation… and altogether driving deep, cross-functional collaboration.

Causes I'm supporting

I have a responsibility to promote and empower the people doing society's most impactful work. I'm privileged to be able to redirect 6% of my monthly income to an array of organizations whose work I value. I share this snapshot because these organizations reflect my values.

🇺🇸 → 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 June 2025

📙 → Hope in the Dark

📕 → How Fascism Works

📘 → Open Veins of Latin America

Venture by Design

My newsletter is on pause for now, but I’ll be transitioning posts to live on this website in the near future.

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Get in touch

Thanks in advance for reaching out!