Mathew Brandt Creative Leader

Mathew Brandt — Digital Experience

Creative leader & UX Strategist

Building winning teams through mentorship, not management. Driven by empathy but anchored in business strategy, I lead innovation that fuels growth.

I get $ for:
Strategy, Creativity, Experimentation, UX, and AI

I give $ for:
Biking, Kayaking, Golfing, RockN, Boarding, and Gaming

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ImagineOptix Creative

How I "invented" meta display

Product DesignStrategy
West Shore Home CRO Optimize

Million$ from one headline change

CROExperimentationStrategy
Honor Website UX/Web

1,200 more job applications

UX/WEBStrategy
Home Instead Website Strategy

Dual audiEnce User Flow

UX/WEBStrategy
Postern Leading

66% growth, NEw Services, Real strategy

Art DirectionStrategyMarketingManagement
The full archive

All Work

14 projects · branding · product · web · video

CreativeOptimizeUX/WebStrategyLeading

01 / Ideas Design · 2026

Design Is Not Art

Art asks a question but design answers them. The best design gets out of the way and is measured by whether people get where they’re going, not by how fancy it looks.

02 / Ideas Craft · 2026

Most People are Fine With Just OK

“Good enough” is the default setting of most marketing. That is exactly why a little extra craft and clarity feels remarkable, and converts buyers to lifetime customers.

03 / Ideas Brand · 2026

Your Logo isn’t That Important

Making the logo bigger doesn’t improve brand awareness. A brand is the whole experience including the message, the product, and the outcome. It is not just a mark.

+/The journal

All Ideas

Short essays on design, craft, brand, and the work behind the outcomes

About — Digital Experience

from research
to refinement

Twenty years across creative direction, product, and UX turning user insight and data into design decisions that businesses can measure. I lead teams and ship work end to end: research, strategy, design, build, and the conversion testing that proves it worked.

Capabilities

  • 01 User Research Interviews, usability testing, journey mapping.
  • 02 Data Analysis Behavioral analytics that surface the real story.
  • 03 Marketing Strategy Positioning, messaging, funnel architecture.
  • 04 Ideation & Innovation Workshops, concepts, rapid prototyping.
  • 05 UX / UI Design Design systems, interfaces, interaction.
  • 06 Development Production front-end, CMS, hand-off.
  • 07 CRO Experiments and A/B tests that move metrics.

Experience

CRO Marketing Manager
West Shore Home · 2025–Present

Freelance Creative Leader
Aspire Pixel Works · 2006–Present

Art Director
Postern · 2023–2025

UX Design Lead
Honor Technologies · 2020–2023

Creative Director
Immersion · 2019–2020

Production Manager
Thee Digital · 2017–2019

Tools & Software

Figma Adobe XD Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Lottie Files Google Gemini ChatGPT Framer HubSpot WordPress Elementor Hotjar Google Analytics DaVinci Resolve Premiere Pro After Effects Blender

Contact

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