Hello. I'mDerrick.

I didn't start as a designer. I studied engineering, worked as a PM at a digital agency and an accounting software company, and somewhere along the way realised that the products I was managing would be better if I just designed them myself.

That shift happened over six years ago. Since then, I've been designing B2B products in maritime and HR — industries where the workflows are dense, the users are busy, and there's zero room for pretty-but-confusing interfaces.

My engineering background means I think in systems. My PM years mean I think in trade-offs, stakeholder language, and delivery timelines. Both of those make me faster — once I understand the context and the required outcomes, screens come together quickly. People who've worked with me call it fast fingers.

I also know enough code to be dangerous. I've built two apps from scratch — one for room booking, and the other for options tracking. And that's pre-AI period. I'm not writing production code in my day job, but it means I speak the same language as the engineers I work with.

When I'm not designing, I'm either on a bike or in the gym chasing the leanest possible version of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Otherwise I'm probably with my family.