Brook Durant
Principal Product Designer at Esri
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrook Durant is a Principal Product Designer and cartographer with over two decades of experience blending UX design, mapping, and front-end engineering to create products used by millions. A longtime contributor to Microsoft’s design systems and maps efforts, Brook has led major redesigns, managed interdisciplinary teams, and shipped Fluent UI web component examples that improved developer documentation and component usability. At Esri and Microsoft they’ve driven digital transformation through prototyping, accessibility-first practices, and data-driven user research, while bridging design and engineering with production-ready prototypes and tooling. Their background in GIS, cartography and full-stack development informs a rare cross-disciplinary fluency—able to move from ArcGIS data pipelines to React-based UI stories. Known for empathy and relationship-driven leadership, Brook repeatedly turns complex spatial and product problems into elegant, usable experiences. Based in Seattle, they combine creative direction with hands-on implementation to accelerate product strategy and adoption.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Geography, B.A. Geography at Central Washington University
Github Skills (11)
web-components10
component-kit10
react10
storybook10
ui-components10
javascript9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
html7
css6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brook primarily contributed to the Storybook documentation and component examples for the Fluent UI web components, specifically within the `web-components` package. Their work involved updating stories for text fields, comboboxes, number fields, data grids, and anchored regions. They implemented UI improvements, fixed examples, and addressed documentation gaps, showcasing their focus on enhancing the developer experience and component usability.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
brookdozer/fluentui
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Contributions:1 review, 16 PRs, 50 pushes in 4 months
user-interfacereactweb-applicationsweb-uiweb-components
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