About

Cam Bruegger

Senior Product Designer working at the seam where design systems meet interaction craft.

Cam Bruegger in a mountain meadow at golden hour
Denver, CO

I design the system and the moment it creates.

I'm a product designer with eight years spent on the parts of software people actually touch — and the structure underneath that keeps them coherent.

Most of my career has lived in a productive tension: the rigor of design systems on one side, the craft of a single, well-made interaction on the other. I've never believed you have to choose. A token and the button it styles are the same decision at two altitudes — get both right and the whole product feels considered.

Today I'm a Senior Product Designer at Bloomerang, the giving platform built for nonprofits. I work across complex, multi-product surfaces — automation, platform settings, integrations — often embedded with several engineering teams at once, translating knotty technical models into something a ten-person nonprofit can run without a marketing-ops background. People come before process, always.

Experience

Where I've spent the hours.

2022 — Present

Senior Product Designer
Bloomerang

Product designer across the giving platform, embedded with multiple engineering teams. Led design for Groups Segmentation, Global Site Navigation, Journey Automation, and Reporting, revamped the internal design system around Atomic Design, and partnered cross-functionally to sharpen Agile practice across the SDLC.

Product Design Design Systems 0→1 Prototyping

2020 — 2021

Product Designer · Contract
Vans eCommerce

Built a new design style guide for the Vans US & CA eCommerce platforms, worked shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering and design QA for clean delivery, and audited production to scope UX improvements.

eCommerce Style Guide Design QA

2019 — 2020

Product Designer
Aetna · CVS

Partnered with the in-house design-systems team to hold consistency across platforms, worked with accessibility specialists to meet WCAG, and operated inside a SAFe environment — quarterly planning, story authoring, and task organization.

Healthcare Accessibility Enterprise

2018 — 2019

UI Designer
HomeAdvisor

Delivered detailed design assets to engineering while holding brand consistency, and led the shift from an automatic-match system to a user-driven selection flow — lifting consumer satisfaction and provider retention.

UI Design Marketplace 0→1

Skills & tools

What I bring to a team.

Design

Product & interaction design Design systems & architecture Information architecture Prototyping & motion Accessibility (WCAG)

Practice

0→1 product definition Design tokens & governance Cross-functional facilitation Research-informed iteration End-to-end feature ownership

Tools

Figma HTML / CSS / JS React Framer Storybook

Beyond the screen

I'm based in Denver, Colorado — which means the best part of most weeks happens outside.

You'll usually find me on the water or in the mountains with my dog riding shotgun. It's the same instinct that pulls me to design: find a good system, keep the gear simple, and pay attention to the small things that make a long day feel effortless.

Cam kayaking with his dog on a mountain lake
Off the clock. Out on the water with the best first mate around.
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