I'm Derry — I build product design organisations that ship.
Monospace Studio is the design label of UX Product Design Lead Derry Birkett. I lead hiring, systems, research cadence and product-quality habits for teams that need design to move faster than the org chart.
18 years
Enterprise, scaleup, agency
3 → 9
CloudBees design team growth
50+ teams
Oracle Netsuite adoption context
Open to hire
Design Lead · Head of Design
Currently building
All demos →
Selected work
All cases →Designed at scale. Led, hired, and shipped.
Four anchor cases show the through-line: organisation design at CloudBees, enterprise systems at Oracle Netsuite, 0→1 product work at Exabyte, and full-stack UX leadership at Telanto.
Building a UX function inside a pre-IPO DevOps enterprise
Head of Design (inherited) · 3 → 9 designers
Designing a design system inside an enterprise that already had one
Lead (effectively manager) · 3–4 reports
Designing the platform when the product is a research tool
Solo Design Lead · 1 designer in a 4-person startup
Lead UX, content, brand and design system as a team of two
Lead UX · 2 (Derry + 1 engineer)
The work is shifting again.
I write about design systems, UX maturity, and AI-assisted product work, and keep a studio archive of demos and experiments when the idea needs to be felt rather than explained.