Your business works harder
than it looks.

You're doing the work. The problem is nothing's showing it off
— not your shop, not your site, not your brand. That's fixable.

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Some ideas are so strong they don't stay contained. They break the mold completely, like a light bulb that shatters, but the light is still on. That's the kind of thinking behind everything built here.

"Brian quickly understood what I was after in a logo design. He had a well defined process and was a pleasure to work with on my project. I would highly recommend him for your next professional project."

— Dan Moody-Musick, Oracle Media Group

Services

Practical help for real problems.

Etsy & Seller Services

Etsy SEO Mini-Audit

A focused review of your listing titles, tags, and descriptions. You'll get a keyword gap analysis, rewrite examples, and a prioritized fix list.

$97

Request a Mini Audit

Etsy Shop Audit & Critique

A full review of your shop from banner to checkout: branding, photos, SEO, pricing, and customer experience. Delivered as a scored report with a Loom walkthrough.

$197

Request an Audit

Etsy Shop Full Launch

Everything you need to open your Etsy shop the right way. Includes niche research, 10 SEO-optimized listings written for you, a pricing formula, and brand direction. Final price depends on number of listings.

Starting at $450

Launch My Shop

Small Business Services

Website Setup & Launch

A professional website built for your business — clean design, mobile-ready, and fully yours. Includes domain setup, professional email configuration, and a handoff so everything runs in your name. Starting at $2,500 for a complete 5–6 page site.

Starting at $2,500

Let's Talk

Logo Design

Clean, professional logos built for makers and small businesses. Priced by the hour at $60/hr — tiered by concepts and revision rounds. All tiers include SVG, PNG, and PDF files and full rights transfer.

From $60/hr

Design My Logo

Pricing Strategy Session

We'll build your real cost of goods, set target margins, and create a pricing spreadsheet you can update yourself. No more guessing.

$150

Book a Session

Product Photography Coaching

A review of your existing product photos with specific feedback on lighting, composition, and styling — plus a shot list for every listing type.

$125

Get Feedback

Small Business Startup Consulting

Full consulting for launching a handmade or craft product business. Includes market research, product planning, pricing, channel strategy, and a 90-day action plan. Final price depends on scope.

Starting at $1,000

Let's Talk

Strategy / Consulting Call

A focused 60-minute call on any topic, with a polished follow-up summary sent within 24 hours. Book time when you need a clear answer fast.

$125/hr

Book a Call

Start Here

Not sure where to start?
Start with an audit.

If something isn't working, guessing won't fix it.

Whether you're running an Etsy shop or a website, it's not always obvious what's holding things back. Low traffic, poor conversion, or unclear structure can all look the same from the outside.

I take a close look at your shop or site and break it down clearly, so you know exactly what's working, what's not, and what to fix first.

What You'll Get

  • A full review of your Etsy shop or website
  • Clear identification of issues affecting traffic or conversion
  • Actionable recommendations you can implement immediately
  • Prioritized next steps, so you know what actually matters

Audit Options

Etsy Shop Audit

Review of listings, SEO, structure, and overall shop quality.

Website / UX Audit

Review of usability, navigation, clarity, and user flow.

Who This Is For

  • Shops that aren't getting traction
  • Sites that feel confusing or underperforming
  • Anyone who wants a clear path forward instead of guessing

Featured Work

Nothing here is theoretical. Everything is built to be used.

Web Application

Receipt Tracer

Full-stack SaaS built with React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL. AI receipt scanning, mileage tracking, Google Sheets export, and tax-ready reporting for freelancers and small businesses.

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Handcraft · Etsy Shop

FunEclecticHome

15 years of handcrafted goods: movie and TV prop books, hollow book safes, vinyl record bookends, upcycled home décor, and one-of-a-kind keepsakes. 4,300+ sales and counting.

Visit the Shop →

UX Portfolio

Case Studies

Selected work spanning 18+ years of product design, UX research, and delivery.

UX · Product Design · SaaS

Receipt Tracer

Shattered Bulb Solutions · 2024–Present

Freelancers and small business owners lose money every year to disorganized receipts and missed deductions. I defined the product, designed the UX end-to-end, and oversaw development, resulting in a live SaaS with AI receipt scanning, automatic mileage calculation, and tax-ready reporting.

Product Strategy UX Design AI Integration Full-Stack
View Live App → View on Behance →
UX · Platform Migration · Angular

eBusiness Rewrite & Unification

Herff Jones / Varsity Yearbook · K–12 Yearbook Advisors

eBusiness was a legacy HTML sales tool that functioned like two separate websites depending on who was logged in. I led the full UX and product effort to rebuild it in Angular, unify the role-fragmented experience, and integrate it seamlessly into eDesign, without disrupting an active user base.

User Research UX/UI Design Business Analysis Product Management
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UX · Platform Modernization · Figma

eDesign—Platform Rewrite & Modernization

Herff Jones / Varsity Yearbook · 18-Year Engagement

eDesign was a widely used yearbook creation platform facing a critical transition away from Flash. I stepped into a hybrid role guiding product direction across three development teams—introducing paper prototyping, championing user research, and helping establish wireframing as a formal part of the product process that ultimately led to Figma adoption org-wide.

Product Strategy Prototyping UX Research Agile / Scrum
View on Behance →
UX · Prototyping · Balsamiq

HJ SmartShare—Wireframes

Herff Jones / Varsity Yearbook · Customer Insights

A Customer Insights researcher had strong data and a vision for a product opportunity—but the story wasn't landing with marketing leadership. I partnered with him to build a clickable Balsamiq prototype in roughly a day and a half, working through ideas in real time and transforming abstract research into something stakeholders could actually respond to and align around.

Rapid Prototyping Balsamiq Stakeholder Alignment UX Research
View on Behance →
UX · Mobile · Balsamiq

ThoughtFull—Mobile App Wireframes

Concept Project · Mobile UX

Ideas surface at the worst times—mid-meeting, mid-conversation, mid-everything. ThoughtFull is a concept mobile app designed to reduce that mental friction: quickly capture a thought and give it just enough structure to become actionable. Where most note-taking tools stop at storage, ThoughtFull helps users move from scattered thinking to intentional progress.

Mobile UX Balsamiq Concept Design Information Architecture
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About

Shattered Bulb Solutions

I build across physical and digital: handmade products, digital tools, and practical help for small businesses that want to look and work like professionals.

Before Shattered Bulb, I spent 18 years in product and UX at a national education company, writing requirements, running offshore dev teams, designing user experiences, and shipping software. I didn't have all the titles, but I did the work.

FunEclecticHome has been running on Etsy since 2012 with 4,300+ sales. Receipt Tracer is a live SaaS I designed and built. The work here isn't theoretical. It's built to function, convert, and last.

Ideas don't have to fit a mold, but they do have to work.

The name comes from a tattoo on my shoulder: a shattered light bulb, broken but still glowing. It's like the idea was so strong it couldn't be contained. That's what Shattered Bulb is all about, creativity so strong it breaks molds.

Looking for UX or product consulting? That work lives here →

Ready to Build Something That Works?

Whether you're starting from scratch, trying to fix what's not working, I'll help you move forward with your next steps.

Questions about a project, an audit, or just want to say "hello"? Send a message and I will get back to you quickly.

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