About / 002Lee Brooks

The engineer who cares what the pixels look like.

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01 / Day job

I'm a user experience engineer at Planning Center, on Check-ins — the app churches use to check kids and volunteers in every Sunday. Between 2.5 and 3 million people go through it a week, mostly in a two-hour window. I sit at the seam between design and code: I prototype in the real codebase, ship the front-end, and fight for the details that don't show up in a spec.

02 / Nights and weekends

I run Squarehead Creative, a small design-and-build studio, and I'm founding a few things of my own: Holograil, a collectibles marketplace launching in a few weeks; Moor, a personal finance app; and Hype Me, a social app for athletes. I like the part where an idea becomes something you can tap.

03 / How I work

Design in the browser, not about it. Small teams. Real data early. Motion that explains something. I'd rather ship a sharp version of one idea than a soft version of five — though, looking at the list above, I'm still working on that.

04 / Experience

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  1. UX Engineer Planning Center — Check-ins

    Front-end and interaction design for attendance software used by 2.5–3M people a week, most of it in a two-hour Sunday window.

    2024 — Now
  2. Founder Squarehead Creative

    Design-and-build studio. Small teams, real products, code as the deliverable.

    2023 — Now
  3. Previous role Company — to fill in

    One line on what you did and what shipped.

    20XX — 20XX
  4. Previous role Company — to fill in

    One line on what you did and what shipped.

    20XX — 20XX
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