I use research & experience to create beautiful designs that deliver real value.

DesignOps • Strategy • UX Research • Product Design

DesignOps

Elevating a design team with cutting edge tooling to help them design faster.

Winthrop is a multi-tenant headless design system created for an enterprise consulting agency to use on client projects. In a consulting design practice this is a key piece of the tooling / process enabling newly assembled product teams the ability to have a common language. The trick here is the way Winthrop is constructed gives the designer more flexibility in choosing components needed while allowing future agency component library updates to be received by clients.

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Optimized For DevMode

Multi-Tenant to serve the agency

Headless for scale

Let's Talk About The Organizational Impact

Recent Project

Research University Clinical Trial Mobile + Web App

Aimed at helping caregivers and patients receive better support in their most needed time

Facilitation Mobile App

Work

by DeveloperTown

As a team, we held a design challenge by designing for a fresh canvas. The challenge was to create a watch app that could help our team in some way. Below is an app I created to help facilitate workshops. It digests your workshop agenda and helps prep the facilitator during the workshop keeping on track, voice capture, tagging and live agenda tracking.

Audience

Team Challenge

Date

March 2023

Voice • AI • Mobile

Using AI + Voice to better understand medical teams

An agency wanted to create a healthcare focused POC to take to SxSw 2024. The idea came from a lived experience from a team member. We leveraged sourced facility data along with AI integration allowing the older generation a tool to better understand their care team as well as ask for help finding their medical team.

I Used AI + Modern Tooling To Create A Fresh New Agency Site

I am fascinated by bleeding edge tools. After extensive research, I chose a very modern tool stack to redesign and build an software consulting agency website. I used Relume AI, Webflow, GSAP, & Figma. The end results spoke for themselves, this site has a lot of personality to help demonstrate their skills.

Startup • Facilitated Workshops • Pitch Deck

Racing Community Startup

Recent discovery to uncover features that will engage racing participants and fans. A nimble process was used to deliver maximum value with an early stage startup with big potential.

Learn About The Process

Presented at an early morning tech event bringing design systems to the masses

I was an early adopter of design systems back in 2016. I co-presented with Adam Yale where we pulled back the curtain and shared some behind the scenes designOps processes and how we were implementing them in our design consulting practice.

Email

In case you need to reach me.

derekrudd@gmail.com

Phone

I prefer text messages for fastest responses.

+1 (317) 476-2211

Location

Born and raised Hoosier.

Midwest, USA