Welcome to my slice of the internet.

I'm a unicorn designer who codes my own work.

The best products are not only carefully designed, but skillfully built. I love taking an idea, designing an experience to demonstrate it to others, and then building out the final product. Lasting quality comes from caring about the problem you're solving. I care. A lot.

As is typically the case with designers who started their careers in the early 2010's, my career has consisted of designing for different categories including (but absolutely not limited to) applications, websites, email layouts, logos, icons, illustrations, infographics, and print materials. While I love both the proper noun form of Design and designing (and am extremely lucky to be able to do something I love as my "day job"), my first love is music.

Having taught myself to play guitar, piano, drums, bass, and sing, I write, engineer, produce, mix, and master my own music. Other loves: baseball (watching, analyzing, and creating applications about it), working out regularly, mechanical watches (researching, as well as designing timepieces), and writing. There's so much to enjoy in this life. I wholly embrace a clichéd "variety is the spice of life" ethos.

Lastly, while the current job of maxburnside.com is "Product Designer Portfolio", the domain and I share a name, which means this is a personal site; my chronicle of products, visuals, stories, companies, adventures, glyphs, concepts, critiques, and more. The site has evolved quite a bit since I created it in 2010, and it will continue to grow for many years. As will I.