Joe Brownstein

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About Joe Brownstein

Joe is a passionate designer that is heavily influenced by tech, accessibility and cross-discipline collaboration and innovation. He grew-up at the pinnacle of home-computing and coin-op gaming moving into the living room. This led to the successful design and operation of an international BBS as a kid, before the internet became widespread (1993-1996). Having mixed a heavy education in visual arts and design, detailed hardware and software tech, and finally psychology and cognitive science, has landed him squarely in the middle of Product and Experience Design. Traveling around the world and living for a short time in Japan, Joe has had the fortunate ability to immerse himself in, and understand different cultures. This in turn has helped in applying different thinking and empathy to designing for a global audience. Joe believes that some of the most difficult and complicated problems around the world are the most exciting to explore and solve, and this is the arena where he thrives. He has helped design solutions for such notable clients as Tesla, Apple and many others of the Top 100. He loves helping lead people to success, facilitating thought / innovation exercises and open knowledge sharing with his peers. When not pondering philosophical ideas around design thinking and innovation, Joe enjoys exploring new tech including crypto and blockchain, machine learning (and AI), humanitarian and environmental problem spaces. He also enjoys experiencing different cultures, volunteer work, and spending time outdoors.