HI, I’M JOSEPH CARTER-BROWN, AND I BUILD COMMUNITY WHEREVER I GO.

I’m a versatile design leader with extensive experience guiding diverse brand and ux design teams, for clients of all sizes. I excel at delivering practical, people-focused strategies and solutions through collaboration with business partners, developers, designers, and communities.

Passionate about community, I am committed to helping brands stay true to their mission while driving positive impact internally (employees and operations) and externally (customers and users).

WHAT SETS ME APART

I help businesses thrive by building healthy, diverse, and harmonious relationships with teams, clients, and customers. Through thoughtful research, and creative data-based storytelling I strive to design meaningful and sustainable experiences. My superpower is getting developers and designers to work together, leveraging my expertise in front-end development and UX architecture to effectively translate creative ideas into technical execution. Where disconnects often arise, I bring clarity, facilitating smooth collaboration to deliver great solutions.

HOW I DELIVER RESULTS

I bring people together. Creating authentic connections between stakeholders ensures projects run smoothly.

I design with Intention. Prioritizing honest business values provides a deeper connection to your audience.

I move efficiently. Identifying and solving issues early affects sustainable outcomes.

WHY IT MATTERS

For businesses, great experiences aren’t just "nice-to-have"—they build trust, loyalty, and growth. With my expertise, I help organizations align their mission and values to their identity, operations, and customer interactions; creating seamless and authentic human-centered experiences.

SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERTISE

Brand Design | UX & Market Research | Service & Product Design | Team Leadership | Workshop Facilitation & Design Thinking | AI & Digital Ethics | Strategic Development | Mentorship | Change Management & Process Improvement | Policy Development | Publishing | Communication | AI Design & Strategy | Business Development | Public Speaking

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HTML | CSS | JavaScript | Figma | Figjam | Miro | Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, XD | Microsoft Office Suite | JIRA | Prototype Development | User Testing | Facilitation | ChatGPT & AI Prompt Engineering

THE WORD ON THE STREET

  • "Joe executed the tasks quite well, especially given he ended up overseeing the most challenging team, taking that over and doing a great job guiding a near impossible group of stakeholders through often thankless work. He adapted to the changing landscape and an unfamiliar organizational environment with seeming ease, and left things much better—and more organized—than he found them."

  • "JCB has superb strategic thinking skills. He blends the needs of people using products, businesses launching products, and people creating products in a way where all can feel equally considered and cared for. He also crafts great stories and creates connections between team members no matter the distance"

  • "Joe is very good at enabling teams in a way that gets projects moving. He seems to understand the developers' minds well, seemingly from his own experience in programming, and I feel that our UX team and the client's dev team are getting closer to being on the same page."

“EVERY ARTIST, EVERY SCIENTIST, EVERY WRITER MUST DECIDE NOW WHERE HE STANDS. THE ARTIST MUST TAKE SIDES. HE MUST ELECT TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OR FOR SLAVERY. I HAVE MADE MY CHOICE. I HAD NO ALTERNATIVE.”
— Paul Robeson