# Brad Samuelson

> UX Designer/Engineer/Illustrator

Location: York, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bradsamuelson

UX/Application/Web designer and front-end engineer. 
Illustrator and cartoonist.

Specialties include:
User Experience, interaction, and user interface design;
Front-end development with HTML, CSS and Javascript;
Bridging the gap between design and development.

## Work Experience
### Sr Product Designer @ Articulate
Jan 2024 – Present

### Freelance Illustrator @ Unknown
Jan 2016 – Present
Freelance illustrator and cartoonist creating artwork for a wide range of clients.

### Principal UX Engineer @ VideoAmp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
I worked on the User Experience team as both a designer and engineer, contributing to the development of an adtech platform. My role involved interpreting product requirements, reviewing and applying user feedback, and creating workflows, wireframes, design assets, and code-based prototypes. I also helped establish design standards, collaborated closely with engineers to ensure adherence to these standards, and directly contributed to the production code for feature implementation.

### Sr Front-End Engineer @ ThreatConnect, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
I worked in the UX Engineering department of a large IT Security platform, creating production code for new features. I helped align designers' visions with engineering execution, ensuring that standard components and features seamlessly matched wireframes and mockups, ultimately delivering on user needs.

### Front End Developer @ Designlab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
I worked on the development team of a fast growing online education company to build out an e-learning platform. My duties included building and maintaining new features for the platform and marketing sites using HTML, CSS (SASS) and Javascript. Also worked collaboratively with product managers and designers to develop an internal design system.

### Sr UI/UX Engineer @ VideoAmp
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Remote
As a member of the Design Ops team, I helped to create a design system and component library (http://preamp.design) used in the creation of web applications for the VideoAmp advertising platform.
Duties included:
 - Developing reusable React components including an SVG icon system (http://preamp.design/#/signal).
 - Making sure the components match specifications from the design team.
 - Developing a coding standard and being the subject matter expert for styling in the VideoAmp platform.
 - Creating and maintaining the CSS framework used in the system (https://preamp.design/#/mixer/).

### Senior Product Designer / UX Engineer @ Oath
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Baltimore, Maryland Area
Worked on the user experience team developing interactive prototypes and production code for various products in the advertising platform using HTML, CSS, SASS/LESS, and various javascript frameworks. Also worked as a designer turning product requirements into user experience workflows following a standard UX practice including research, testing, and working with engineers to deliver features to the platform.

### Sr. Front End Engineer @ StraighterLine
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Baltimore, MD
Worked within the technology team of a leading online higher education website. Duties included front-end development of the company website as well as the student web application using HTML, CSS, SASS, jQuery, and Javascript.

### Principal UI Designer @ AOL
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014
Worked within the user experience team leading UX and UI design for several high profile products in the advertising division of AOL. Duties included working closely with product and development teams on the creation and implementation of new feature workflows and visual design mockups; front-end development using HTML, CSS, SASS and Javascript; usability testing with internal and external users.

### Designer @ Moat
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Worked remotely as a senior level designer to create web sites, landing pages, and banner ads as well as developing design processes for a start-up internet advertising company.

### Designer @ Advertising.com / AOL
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

### Designer @ TruePresence
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Worked closely with developers and other designers to create standards compliant web sites. Duties include design as well as front end development using XHTML and CSS to be incorporated into a PHP based content management system.

### Designer @ Smartpants Media
Jan 1999 – Jan 2006
Worked as lead designer to develop numerous multimedia projects. Duties included interactive interface design, motion graphics, non-linear video editing, web design using CSS, layout design for print materials, 3D character development and animation, and limited object oriented programming with Lingo.


## Education
### Associate Degree in Specialized Technology in Multimedia Design
Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bradsamuelson
- Portfolio: http://www.lineheight.co
- Portfolio: https://www.ancientastronaut.co/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31