Charlie Blue Brahm Portfolio

Hi, I'm Charlie Blue! As a service designer and researcher focused on wellbeing, I leverage my community-engaged research to make space for the nuance in people’s stories, my PM experience to frame opportunities by questioning norms, and my technical skills to build new possibilities.

My Work

Master's Capstone Community-Engaged Research

Research partnership with local youth arts nonprofit Urban ArtWorks around improving participant information management systems amidst rapid growth.

Mirror: a learning reflection platform

Master's capstone project supporting education nonprofits in building and using an abundance of rich reflection data about their students’ and teachers’ experiences.

About Me

I'm Charlie Blue, a service designer & researcher based in Seattle

My interests revolve around exploring how HCI experiences can mediate emotional healing and post-traumatic growth.

I'm currently a Master's student in the University of Washington's Human-Computer Interaction + Design program. I moved to Seattle in 2018 after graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in order to work as a Program Manager on Microsoft's Operating Systems Security team.

Outside of work, I love to explore Seattle by going on long bike rides with my partner, and then recover from those bike rides by snuggling our cat and eating heart-warming meals from Bryant Terry’s Vegetable Kingdom cookbook.