Brendan Bronzan
Senior UX Designer with 20 years of experience creating products of all scales that achieve user and business goals.
Whether it’s UX strategy to define the direction, UX research to identify needs or UX design to bring ideas to life, I’m here to build digital products that help people.
I love engaging with product teams and development teams because designing for people is so much more than pretty pixels – it’s a process to identify and solve real problems.
Work Experience
Jul 2025 – Present
Freelance Designer & Technologist
Brendan Bronzan Design - Remote
- Providing a wide array of design and technology services to businesses and non-profit organizations.
- Created brand identities and all purpose branding kits to be leveraged for marketing and promotions, as well as custom merchandise.
- Designed websites or landing pages based on business/organizational needs.
- Setup initial social media pages and accounts, utilizing the branding kit, to begin social media outreach.
- Established and configured technology stacks to drive operations for businesses and organizations, such as: Google Workspace, Proton Mail/Drive, Square, Stripe, Nextcloud and WordPress.
Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
Paternity Leave
Home
Taking a brief paternity leave to spend time with my son and my wife before she goes back to work. Life is beautiful.
Jun 2023 – Feb 2025
UX Strategy & Design Consultant
Topcon Positioning Systems - Remote
- Delivered ongoing UX strategy and design guidance for enterprise-grade applications with complex workflows, driving user-centred solutions.
- Collaborated closely with senior product managers and engineering leads to convert roadmap features into validated interactive prototypes, enhancing cross-team Agile development.
- Strengthened engineering efforts by advancing a scalable design system featuring reusable UI components, consistent design patterns, and front-end code enhancements for improved product quality.
- Developed and implemented a UX strategy to migrate products into an organizational design system, ensuring cohesion and consistency across the enterprise product family.
May 2022 – May 2023
UX Strategy & Design Consultant
Digital Construction Works - Remote
- Collaborated with senior product managers and engineering leads to re-envision a product using a user-centred design approach, improving usability and alignment with business goals.
- Created and implemented a comprehensive UX strategy for redesigning a product leveraging a new front-end framework and design system.
- Established a scalable design system for PrimeVue components, enabling rapid prototyping and supporting engineers throughout implementation.
Dec 2016 – Feb 2022
Senior UX Designer / Acting Team Lead
Statistics Canada - Ottawa, Ontario (Hybrid)
- Mentored and coached a team of 16 UX researchers and UX designers and provided actionable feedback to foster professional growth and design excellence.
- Interviewed candidates and ultimately hired 10 new staff to expand UX capacity in order to better meet the demand of IT projects within the organization.
- Provided UX governance and oversight for multiple concurrent projects.
- Contributed high-level UX work to projects as needed.
- Applied user-centred design methodologies to deliver effective UX services for complex enterprise applications and innovative government projects.
- Conducted comprehensive UX research (both field and virtual) to deepen user insights and improve stakeholder relationships.
- Partnered with business analysts to ensure alignment between business objectives and user needs.
- Delivered strategic UX guidance to senior management, driving enhancements in team capabilities and project outcomes.
Apr 2011 – Nov 2016
UX Designer
Canada Border Services Agency - Ottawa, Ontario
- Redefined digital products using modern design techniques and a user-centred design methodology to enhance usability and engagement.
- Served dual roles as product manager and UX designer for complex enterprise applications in the public sector.
- Provided development teams with clear design direction and detailed documentation across multiple projects to ensure alignment and quality.
- Gathered comprehensive business requirements and conducted user research studies to inform and validate design decisions.
- Presented wireframes and interactive prototypes to stakeholders, facilitating feedback and securing project approvals.
- Acted as a liaison between clients and developers to ensure business goals and user needs were effectively aligned.
- Delivered design options and usability reports that informed project planning and enhanced decision-making.
May 2005 – Mar 2011
Web Designer & Developer
Canada Border Services Agency - Ottawa, Ontario
- • Supported over 60 personnel by gathering detailed requirements to develop effective web-based solutions for government operations.
- Re-designed and developed scalable enterprise applications to replace legacy systems like MS Access and Excel, significantly improving efficiency and usability.
- Created a web-based case management system to streamline and automate complaints processing workflows.
- Designed accessible user interfaces in compliance with government standards, enhancing usability and ensuring regulatory adherence.
Skills & Expertise
Strategy
Product and UX strategy.
Content strategy and design.
Lean UX and Design Thinking methodologies.
UX Advocacy
Organizational UX adoption.
Motivating digital behaviour change.
Design
Information architecture and interaction design.
User-centred design (UCD) and human-centred design (HCD).
Qualitative and quantitative UX research methods.
Prototyping & Design Systems
Rapid UX prototyping, validation and user testing.
Establishing, maintaining and contributing to design systems.
Usability and accessibility standards.
Collaboration
Effective internal/external stakeholder engagement.
Cross-functional collaboration.
Front-end code and styling assistance.
(HTML & CSS)
Agile, Kanban, Scrum and Waterfall.
Software & Technology
Design Tools
Figma and Adobe XD.
Adobe Creative Cloud products.
Affinity design products.
Ideation
Miro
Visio and other flowchart software.
Project Management
Azure DevOps and GitLab.
Atlassian Jira and Confluence.
Coding
Browser-based code inspectors.
VS Code
HTML, CSS, SCSS
XML, JSON
Education
2018
Service Excellence
Canada School of Public Service - Ottawa, Ontario
2016
Psychology for Digital Behaviour Change
Alterspark - Ottawa, Ontario
2012 - 2015
Experience Mapping
Mobile UX Design
User Experience Research
Interaction Design
Usability Testing
Akendi - Ottawa, Ontario
2004 - 2006
Interactive Multimedia Developer - Diploma
Algonquin College - Ottawa, Ontario
See my work
Check out my portfolio for some examples of past design projects.