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Brayden Wisniewski
UX Designer
I design enterprise and AI products. The hard, messy ones. I make them make sense.
Three problems worth solving.
Shared office thermostats. Workplace notifications. Student focus habits. Three different messes.
Google Nest · 2024
A shared thermostat for offices — because one person's comfort shouldn't cost everyone else theirs.
Redesigned Google Nest for shared office spaces. Led companion app interaction design from low-fi wireframes through final prototype, conducting heuristic evaluations and usability testing throughout.
10%
Increase in labor cost when too cold
44%
Fewer errors at comfortable temp
6
Usability sessions
3
Prototype iterations
Slack · 2026
Studying what happens when work, messages, and 67 unread notifications collide.
End-to-end UX research: heuristic evaluation, moderated testing, redesign, then unmoderated validation. Uncovered where users fail and confirmed two targeted redesigns fixed both severity-4 issues.
37.5%→100%
Message retrieval
25%→100%
Notification management
14
Heuristic violations
14
Participants
Opal · 2026
Designing better focus habits for college students who are tired of fighting their phones.
Redesigned the focus experience for Opal, a digital wellness app. Addressed the gap between students knowing they should focus and actually being able to.
64%
Students 10+ hrs/wk on coursework
27/30
Struggle with procrastination
10
Research interviews
3
New features validated