📍 Accra, Ghana | 🎨 Product Designer → Builder | 🎙️ Edge Cases Podcast Co-host
Started in Figma, ended up on the App Store. Still not sure how that happened, but I'm not stopping.
🌐 uxderrick.com – Portfolio & design work
- 🪞 Mirror – Virtual try-on for iOS; screenshot any outfit, see yourself wearing it in seconds (App Store)
- 🔔 Chime – macOS menubar app that blocks your entire screen so you never miss a meeting again (App Store)
- 🧩 Components.lol – Chrome extension that extracts design tokens and components from any website
- 🎯 Create a Palette – Figma plugin for quick color palette generation
- 🎙️ Edge Cases Podcast – Design challenges, career growth, and the future of product design (12+ episodes)
- 📝 CopyCopy – Writing tool for better copywriting and content creation workflows
- 🖼️ BG Remover – Background removal tool built to solve a common design workflow headache
- 🌍 Designers Africa – Community platform showcasing African designers and their work
- 🎨 Colorless – Color accessibility and contrast checking tool
- 📚 FontPear – Typography pairing tool that makes font selection intuitive
- 💭 Quote Generator – Quick inspirational quotes for design mockups and prototypes
- Bridging design and code – Turning years of UX thinking into functional React and SwiftUI apps
- Building design tools – Solving problems I've hit myself as a product designer
- Growing communities – Led Ghana's Figma Community for 2 years, spoke at Figma Config '22
- Mentoring designers – Sharing what I know on ADPlist
- Vibe coding – Using AI to ship faster and learn React + SwiftUI along the way
"Design is how it works" – I build tools to solve my own problems, then share them with the design community. Currently exploring how AI changes everything about how designers ship.
- Two apps on the App Store and counting
- Figma Config '22 speaker
- Started designing in 2013, went product in 2021
- Powered by Accra jollof and too many Figma files
- Believes every designer should learn to code (at least a little)