It's me, Derek

I’m an interactive designer located in the Albuquerque, NM with over 16 years of experience with web design and development.
I can help you understand the problem and create enjoyable, interactive experiences that connect with customers and propel business goals. I design wireframes, websites, and graphics to support them using paper-and-pen, Figma, Affinity Designer, and a handful of Adobe CC tools.
And I build solutions based on thoughtful plans and designs in the final step toward bringing projects into the wild. I use HTML, CSS, Javascript, WordPress, Webflow, Kirby CMS, and Shopify to create the living-breathing-browser-ready product.
I’ve lived in a bunch of states
Skills
- Creative direction
- Web Design & Development
- Sketch, Figma, Webflow, Tailwind CSS
- Sass, CSS, HTML, JS, PHP
- WordPress Design & Development
- Shopify Design & Development
- Webflow Design & Development
- Cartoon voices
- Short stories
- Good jokes
- Bad jokes
Likes
- Pizza, Ice Cream, Salads, Dumplings
- Reading, Writing, The outdoors
- Film, Music, Cartoons, TV
- Inclusive thinking, Fighting for those who can’t
- Self-education
Dislikes
- Organized religion
- People who don’t use their turn signal
- Bullshit corporate hoo-ha
- Paying for water
- Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Microsoft Teams