Brent Morris

@closetgeekshow

UX Architect. Interaction Design. Web Developer. Hobbyist Gamedev.

St. Catherines, ONJoined November 2022

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I wear many hats. At work I'm a 🎩 UX Architect. My recreational hats: 🕸 Web Developer, 🕹 Hobbyist Game Developer, 🎙Podfaded Podcaster.

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I built a shitty landing page but it only took me like 15 minutes!

I've been looking at Destack for a while, late last year, I tried and abysmally failed at making a visual website builder using GrapesJS. It was a little too big of a thing to attempt all by myself, it did not go well, that project is frigging hard t...

Jul 13, 20241 min read

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Unexpected: LinkedIn is a fun place to be

This morning, while catching up on newsletters, I read a devlog for an asset pack on itch.io (of all places). There, I learned some news that's a few months old by now: LinkedIn is getting some games - I'm kind of excited about it. ❕ No slight to Ma...

May 31, 20244 min read

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Unpacking Cognitive Load

I found Beth J's recent post "The lazy load, endless scroll, and color slicing have to go" to be a thought-provoking read. I found myself connecting it with a number of things I've read recently that I'll try to link to as I go. It really made me ref...

Apr 26, 20247 min read

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From Pack Rat to Cyber Squirrel

I collect too many links. I was a pack rat as a kid, my locker overflowing with random knick-knacks and other garbage I didn't need but felt compelled to hoard. As I became an adult got older, that behaviour transitioned to collecting things I found ...

Jun 14, 20235 min read

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Dipping my toes in GitHub

I made and published a Javascript bookmarklet thing this weekend as an exercise to practice my coding skills, learn how to manage a public GitHub repo and automate a manual task that took me way too long. Only relevant to the UX Designers/Interacti...

Jun 12, 20231 min read

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I built a shitty landing page but it only took me like 15 minutes!

Unexpected: LinkedIn is a fun place to be

Unpacking Cognitive Load

From Pack Rat to Cyber Squirrel

Dipping my toes in GitHub

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About

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Brent Morris's blogs

Recently published

I built a shitty landing page but it only took me like 15 minutes!

Unexpected: LinkedIn is a fun place to be

Unpacking Cognitive Load

From Pack Rat to Cyber Squirrel

Dipping my toes in GitHub