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Résumé · Joshua Briley

I find what's worth building, design it, and ship it.

Product design engineer with 20+ years taking products from an unclear problem to a shipped, accessible product. I work out what users actually need, design the flow, and build it myself, in settings from a child-care platform to a design system used by roughly 3,500 engineers and designers.

How I work

The same three things in every role below, whatever the industry.

  1. 01

    Frame the problem

    Use analytics, experiments, and time with real users to decide what's worth building, then cut scope to the useful path.

  2. 02

    Design and build in one pass

    Prototype, validate, and ship directly in product codebases, so design decisions are tested in working software instead of static handoffs.

  3. 03

    Make it work for everyone

    Accessibility, performance, language parity, and recoverable flows, treated as part of the product rather than a final pass.

Experience

Different industries, the same job: figure out the right problem, then design and build the answer.

  • 2025 – Present

    Travelers

    Software Engineer II, Design System

    Tools and context: Stencil Web Components · React

    • Design and build in one pass
    • Make it work for everyone

    Gave roughly 3,500 engineers and designers across the organization one accessible component set to build against, cutting duplicate UI work.

    • Cut more than 10 hours of setup per component story by automating Storybook story generation, returning that time to feature work.
    • Automated Figma Code Connect mapping, so designers and engineers no longer translate the same components by hand.
    • Raised adoption by documenting accessibility expectations, implementation guidance, and cross-framework usage, so consuming teams ship correct patterns without asking.
  • 2023 – 2024

    Logatot, Inc.

    Senior UX/UI Developer

    Tools and context: Rails · ViewComponents

    • Frame the problem
    • Design and build in one pass
    • Make it work for everyone

    Moved documentation from evening paperwork to hands-free capture during the day; one provider reported saving more than two hours daily.

    • Turned compliance into a by-product of daily work: attendance records, signed releases, CACFP claims, and drill logs all generate from events already captured.
    • Reworked the flows and forms where Hotjar, Google Analytics, and HubSpot data showed people getting stuck.
    • Shipped to market as a paid product sold direct and through child care associations, with English and Spanish at full parity.
  • 2022 – 2023

    America's Test Kitchen

    Senior Software Engineer (UI)

    Tools and context: React · Next.js

    • Frame the problem
    • Make it work for everyone

    Moved consumer-facing experiences off a legacy Rails platform onto documented React and Next.js components the team could reuse.

    • Settled design questions with Optimizely A/B tests and the site's analytics stack.
    • Protected performance, accessibility, and security by weighing every third-party script against what it cost the page.
    • Came back to formalize the accessibility team and mission the company had never had, closing the gap to WCAG 2.2 across every platform.
  • 2018 – 2022

    Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance

    Principal Design Engineer

    Tools and context: Vue.js · Nuxt.js

    • Frame the problem
    • Design and build in one pass

    Focused the roadmap on the screens underwriters and agents used most, based on Segment and Heap data from the portals.

    • Made underwriting, administration, customer service, and agent workflows usable at scale through data-heavy tables, filters, forms, and dashboards.
    • Standardized front-end work across internal, agent, and customer portals with one shared UI library, so teams stopped rebuilding the same patterns.
  • 2016 – 2018

    America's Test Kitchen

    Lead UI Developer

    Tools and context: UI Systems

    • Design and build in one pass
    • Make it work for everyone

    Sped up development while improving consistency, accessibility, SEO, and performance across digital properties with a scalable UI utility system.

    • Raised the team's baseline by training engineers on accessible markup, performance, and durable UI practices.
    • Earned the Breaking Bread Award for strengthening the brand's digital engagement.
  • 2010 – 2025

    Independent

    Freelance UI Designer/Developer

    Tools and context: Contract

    • Frame the problem
    • Design and build in one pass
    • Make it work for everyone

    Cut IVFCRYO's support calls 75% and shipping errors 55% with recoverable, accessible flows for high-stakes fertility logistics.

    • Rebuilt VMSpark's multi-tenant admin app in four phases with zero pipeline regressions and no operator retraining.
    • Deliver full-stack prototypes and production applications for clients when building is faster than specifying.

Skills

The tools and disciplines behind shared components, accessible interfaces, and product workflows.

Product design & accessibility

Framing workflows, then working through interaction states, prototypes, and accessibility behavior with product, design, and engineering.

Follow a design decision
  • Accessible UI
  • Adobe CS
  • Design-to-code
  • Figma
  • Prototyping
  • Responsive design
  • WCAG 2.1 / 2.2
  • Workflow design

Data & experimentation

Analytics, experimentation, and performance checks to identify friction and evaluate changes to an interface.

  • Core Web Vitals
  • Google Analytics
  • Heap
  • Hotjar
  • HubSpot
  • Optimizely
  • Segment

Front-end engineering

My deepest current systems work is in Stencil Web Components and Storybook. My broader toolkit spans markup, styling, and product UI frameworks.

  • Alpine.js
  • Astro
  • CSS
  • Gatsby
  • HTML
  • HTMX
  • Hotwire
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Sass
  • Stencil Web Components
  • Stimulus
  • Storybook
  • Tailwind
  • TypeScript
  • Vue

Design systems & testing

Shared components, tokens, documentation, and the tests and tooling that support their use across product teams.

Inspect a component library
  • CI workflows
  • Component libraries
  • Cypress
  • Design systems
  • Design tokens
  • Figma Code Connect
  • Git
  • Jest
  • Lighthouse
  • Node scripts
  • Playwright
  • Vitest

Application delivery

Backend and deployment tools used to support product interfaces and working prototypes.

  • Heroku
  • Netlify
  • Next
  • Nuxt
  • Ruby on Rails

Education

A foundation in science, with continued study in product design and accessibility.

B.S. Biology

Troy University

Built analytical and technical-writing habits through research-based projects.

Continuing education