Hi, I’m Derry, an award-winning UX Design Leader with 20 years experience designing for startups and creating enterprise scale design structures.

Recent Work


UX Leadership and Research Champion for CloudBees, a pre-IPO DevOps enterprise.

A handcrafted design system for Oracle Netsuite.

UX Leadership for innovative material science startup Exabyte.io.

Creative Art Direction & UX for Hugo Boss & Esprit via Machinas Design Agency.

And more.

Design Philosophy


Build the right things & Build the things right.

There are no shortcuts to quality design: as a design leader I am passionate about helping designers and developers ship their very best work: building the right things, the right way - this is much more difficult than it sounds the larger the organisation, but the principles are the same.

Design is how it works.