About
I'm Bert.
The Bear.
Real name Albert Miller. I'm an AI Designer & Developer hybrid — which is a fancy way of saying I design things and then actually build them. No waiting around for a handoff that never comes.
People call me Bert the Bear because I'm candid, direct, loud, sometimes grumpy before coffee, but always warm underneath. I explain things in analogies, I care deeply about craft, and I make things that real people can actually use.
I work at the intersection of AI and human experience. That means I'm designing conversational interfaces, building with LLMs, creating design systems that scale, and thinking about what happens when machines and humans need to collaborate.
How I work
Things I believe.
Ship it.
Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. I'd rather ship something real than polish a deck forever.
Be honest.
I love feedback — giving it and getting it. But honest feedback only works when there's trust. Build that first, then say the hard things.
Design is code.
The best interfaces come from people who understand both sides. I don't hand off. I build.
Stay curious.
AI is moving fast. Design is evolving. I'm in the middle of it, learning every day, building what's next.
What I do
The toolkit.
Design
- UI/UX Design
- Design Systems
- Brand Identity
- Prototyping
- User Research
- Interaction Design
Development
- React / Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js
- Python
- AI/ML Integration
Tools
- Figma
- Miro
- Claude Code
- Framer
- Vercel
- GitHub
The journey
How I got here.
Advisory UX Designer — ZOLL Medical
Leading UX for medical software. Figma, usability testing, design systems — the full stack of making complex things usable.
Staff UX Designer — ZOLL Medical
Moved from engineering into design full-time. Turns out building the thing and designing the thing aren't that different.
Designer (before they had a title for it) — ZOLL Medical
Did design work under an engineering title. The company hadn't caught up to what the role actually was yet.
Web Developer — Mosaix
UX-focused web development at RIDC Industrial Park. Where I first realized I cared more about the user than the code.
Web Developer — Keystone Collections Group
First real dev job. SQL Server, programming, and figuring out how the industry actually works.
IT Intern — Westmoreland County
Where it all started. Got paid to learn, broke things, fixed them, and decided this was the career.