Derek Howles

Staff Product Designer, Design Systems at Datadog

Role: Staff Product Designer, Design Systems at Datadog
Location: New York, NY, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

About Derek Howles

I\'m a staff product designer for Datadog in New York City, where I’ve worked for over 10 years. I founded our design system (called DRUIDS) as well as the Design Systems team, which I managed for its first several years. My main focus these days is on building, maintaining, evolving, and being a technical leader for DRUIDS.Before that, I was the lead designer in the the creation and launch of Watchdog, our machine learning-based software for automated anomaly detection and root cause analysis; led the design for Datadog APM (Application Performance Monitoring) as it expanded to become a market leader, and was the lead designer in the creation of Notebooks, Datadog’s platform for collaborative, data-driven posts I’ve written/been interviewed for: “DRUIDS, the design system that powers Datadog” “How we use RUM to make design decisions that enhance user experience” “How we use our Digital Experience Monitoring products to reduce friction in frontend testing and debugging” “How Datadog built an enterprise platform by scaling their design system with Figma” series I’ve done: “Datadog on … Design Systems” https://datadogon.datadoghq.com/episodes/datadog-on-design-systems “Datadog on … Data-Informed Product Development” talks: “(CO-DE)pendent: Leaning into the technical to build better design ecosystems” at Figma Config 2023

Experience

Staff Product Designer, Design Systems
Datadog
Nov 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Arts, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
2002 — 2006

Skills

Cross-Browser Compatibility
Editing
Responsive Design
Branding & Identity
E-Commerce
Copy Editing
Shopify
Media Relations
Google Pagespeed
Adobe Acrobat
UI/UX Principles
Javascript
Html 5
Mockups
Mysql
Typography
SEO
Eventbrite
Bootstrap
Css
Visual Design
Illustrator
Css3
Mailchimp
Front-End Design
Jquery
Sketch
Php
Wireframes
Webkit Web Inspector
Indesign
Copywriting
Front-End Development
Web Design
Microsoft Excel
Google Analytics
Photoshop
Html5
Responsive Web Design
Google Apps

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