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Derol.

UI designer in Santa Cruz, CA. Twenty years of making interfaces people enjoy using.

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Designing for the first five seconds.

New users decide in a few swipes whether an app is worth their time. The feed had to feel alive from the first scroll.

More signal than a photo.

Richer profiles and clearer cues so people can decide with more than a first impression.

Getting past “hey.”

Prompts and lightweight reactions that make the first message easier to send.

  1. 01  Trending
  2. 02  Discover
  3. 03  Chat

How it’s built

Every screen is a system.

Tokens, layout, components and content, designed to scale and documented for engineering.

Process

How I work.

Research first, pixels second, ship with engineering.

  1. 01

    Research.

    Talk to users, study the data, find the real problem.

  2. 02

    Flows.

    Map journeys and wireframes before pixels.

  3. 03

    Interface.

    Polished UI on a reusable component system, specced for handoff.

  4. 04

    Prototype & ship.

    Clickable or coded prototypes, then pair with engineering to ship.

derol@derol.com  →

Open to full-time UI and product design roles, remote or in California.