About
Portrait of Brian

Brian Pirie

Designer

Brian is a designer specializing in web and desktop user interfaces that work well and look great.

With his 15+ year track record, his clients benefit from his extensive and wide-ranging experience in design, management and development of interactive applications. After cutting his teeth as a developer for 5 years, Brian spent the next third of his career in management, leading teams and projects to success and gaining valuable business experience. Since 2006, Brian has been a full-time designer, using user-centered design processes to create products that engage and delight users.

When not working, Brian can be found biking around town, kicking back in a park with his wife Pearl, or taking part in various community initiatives.

Brian is based in Ottawa, Canada.

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"Brian was a pleasure to work with, listened closely to our needs, and delivered a product that is functional as well as visually reflective of our requirements. The website was delivered on time and within budget on a very tight timeframe."
— Kevin Edwards, Client
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"From one web guy to the other, you did an amazing job on this website, bravo"
— Mark Maloney, Web Designer
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"You’ve done a phenomenal job on the development and evolution of the website into a true information sharing platform"
— Amish Mehta, User
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"Brian is one of the brightest individuals I have worked with in my career, and was a real pleasure to work with."
— Graham Brown, CTO, Corel Corporation
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"He's very quick to determine where the problems lie, what the priorities are and how to attack them efficiently in order to develop creative design solutions that work."
— Tom Hoferek, Senior Experience Designer, Adobe
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"Painter Essentials 4.0 could be the most fun you've had in front of a computer in years ... An absolute joy to use"
— Lesa Snider King, MacWorld magazine