Derek Arrington
Design leadership at scale.
Strategy, systems, and human-centered thinking — with 20 years of making organizations better through design.
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Derek Arrington
Strategy, systems, and human-centered thinking — with 20 years of making organizations better through design.
Building design capabilities that make organizations better.
Transformed an organization's approach to experience design. Led design maturity initiative, redesigned financial advisor SaaS to 100% user satisfaction, and built a design sales engine that increased engagement by 15%.
Led global team of 10+ designers. Co-created an internal design system that improved team efficiency by 40% and organizational productivity by 15%.
Grew design team from 6 to 30+. Created the company's first design system ("Prudential Playbook"), driving 25% efficiency gains and 30% faster timelines. Shipped first native iOS/Android apps for retirement.
Currently building
Built on notahuman, my autonomous multi-agent ecosystem.
Autonomous AI-powered product team. A C-Suite of agents that plan, build, ship, and verify software together in production.
Multi-Agent PlatformDeFi trading platform for decentralized finance. Real-time arbitrage detection and execution built through agent orchestration.
DeFi TradingMusic library infrastructure for multi-terabyte collections. Intelligent tagging, crate management, and Serato integration.
Music InfrastructureDesign tool for the agent era. Where human direction meets AI-powered execution in a unified canvas.
Design Tooling"The best design organizations don't just ship work. They ship capability."