📍 Accra, Ghana | 🛠️ Designer turned Builder | 🎙️ Edge Cases Podcast Co-host
Started in Figma, ended up on the App Store and in bank branches. Still not sure how that happened, but I'm not stopping.
🌐 uxderrick.com - Portfolio & 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)
- 💰 PennyWatch - Personal finance tracker that reads bank SMS, parses with AI, and gives spending insights via Telegram
- 🧩 Components.lol - Chrome extension that extracts design tokens and components from any website
- 🗺️ Mappd - See your entire React app at once. All screens rendered live on an infinite canvas with navigation flows
- 🔔 ChimeAlert - ADHD-friendly, impossible-to-miss full-screen alert system for macOS. Extracted from Chime
- 📄 DocStruct - Document structure analysis tool
- 🎙️ Edge Cases Podcast - Design challenges, career growth, and the future of product design (12+ episodes)
- 🧠 MECE Skill - MECE validation and decomposition skill for AI agents. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI
- 🏧 Banking Kiosk Android - Android kiosk app for bank branch self-service
- 🔗 Kiosk QR Bridge - Tiny bridge API connecting kiosk QR login to mobile app
- 🖨️ Sunmi Print Bridge - Headless companion APK for printing receipts on Sunmi V3H thermal printer via AIDL
- Building operational fintech tools - Queue management, compliance platforms, and teller workstations for banks in Ghana
- Shipping AI agent tooling - Skills and frameworks for Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding agents
- 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
"Design is how it works" - I build tools that solve real problems, then open-source the parts worth sharing.