Airbnb
As an Experience Designer at Airbnb, I helped reshape and evolve the brand, completely redesigned the digital product from the ground up, and explored new ways to connect people to places and experiences.
Derek Elijah Bradley is a design partner for forward-thinking brands, product teams, and founders. ©'26
As a Senior Product Designer, I worked cross-functionally with a variety of product teams at Facebook, including videos, photos, engagement, analytics, infrastructure, media, news, and Instagram.
Neurotrack
As a Senior Product Designer, I worked closely with the founding team to design a set of digital cognitive solutions that enable people to assess, monitor, and strengthen their brain health.
Nike
As a Senior Product Designer, I worked closely with product and engineering leadership to elevate the design of their internal tools including: sales reports, analytics, and internal communication.
Dollar Shave Club
As a Senior Product Designer, I helped optimize and redesign the funnel so that customers can more seamlessly navigate the app, compare products and subscriptions, and check out.
Meetup
As a Senior Product Designer, I worked closely with the product design team and executive leadership team to create a thoughtful design system for their website and mobile applications.
Zeus Living
As a Design Lead, I worked with the founders and product team to optimize their core user flows and create a fresh product design system as a part of a larger rebrand led by Frank Chimero.
BuzzFeed
As a Design Lead, I worked closely with product teams to explore new digital products, smart connected physical products, and e-commerce experiments, like the Tasty One Top appliance and app.
Condé Nast
As a Senior Product Designer, I worked closely with the Condé Nast Co/Lab design team and embedded with the Self Magazine editorial team to explore solutions focused on women's health.
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Profile
Derek Elijah Bradley is a design partner for forward-thinking brands, product teams, and founders.
Since 2006 Derek has collaborated across a diverse set of industries, from healthcare-tech to Hollywood, alcohol to athletics, social media to space science, Google to Gatorade.
He enjoys working through complex problems and teaming up with top creative organizations to design fun, thoughtful products, brands, media, and experiences for audiences.
Philosophy
Problems are possibilities
Trouble is everywhere you look: problems, frustration, disfunction, ugliness. Whenever things aren’t working or aren’t quite right, that’s an opportunity for design to simplify, clarify, and synthesize solutions. The bigger the problem, the bigger the possibility.
Actionable optimism Actionable
optimism
Only through optimism does opportunity become visible. Only through realism, giving equal attention to what’s best and worst, can we turn that opportunity into practical solutions. Balance both to pursue the biggest and brightest opportunities.
Fearless Vision Fearless
Vision
Take audacious, ambitious swings with our solutions. Show people a future more exciting than their past — a new signal amongst the old noise. Create something so undeniably better it inspires teams to work to bring that shared vision to life.
Stay fresh and rooted Stay fresh
but rooted
Remain continuously curious about the world of technology and design. Explore new tools and innovations to help solve problems, but do so without abandoning traditional design methods, foundational techniques, and proven practices.
Inclusive collaboration
No problem is solved alone. Lasting work comes from cross-discipline teams helping shape solutions together. We must learn from each other and work together to create design solutions that reflect our diverse perspectives and experiences.
Perfect enough Perfect
enough
Small refinements compound into quality. Create with great care and craft. Honor the details that shape experience, but don’t let debilitating perfectionism kill momentum. Polish is the final mile, not the entire race. Aim for pride in the work, not impossibility.
Problems are possibilities
Trouble is everywhere you look: problems, frustration, disfunction, ugliness. Whenever things aren’t working or aren’t quite right, that’s an opportunity for design to simplify, clarify, and synthesize solutions. The bigger the problem, the bigger the possibility.
Actionable optimism Actionable
optimism
Only through optimism does opportunity become visible. Only through realism, giving equal attention to what’s best and worst, can we turn that opportunity into practical solutions. Balance both to pursue the biggest and brightest opportunities.
Fearless Vision Fearless
Vision
Take audacious, ambitious swings with our solutions. Show people a future more exciting than their past — a new signal amongst the old noise. Create something so undeniably better it inspires teams to work to bring that shared vision to life.
Stay fresh and rooted Stay fresh
but rooted
Remain continuously curious about the world of technology and design. Explore new tools and innovations to help solve problems, but do so without abandoning traditional design methods, foundational techniques, and proven practices.
Inclusive collaboration
No problem is solved alone. Lasting work comes from cross-discipline teams helping shape solutions together. We must learn from each other and work together to create design solutions that reflect our diverse perspectives and experiences.
Perfect enough Perfect
enough
Small refinements compound into quality. Create with great care and craft. Honor the details that shape experience, but don’t let debilitating perfectionism kill momentum. Polish is the final mile, not the entire race. Aim for pride in the work, not impossibility.
Awards &
recognition
My work has been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, Wired, and Monocle.
2019
WEBBY AWARDS
NOMINEE
2017
WEBBY AWARDS
WINNER
2015
WEBBY AWARDS
WINNER
2014
WEBBY AWARDS
WINNER
2010
AWWWARDS
MENTION
Experience
Design Lead
2017-2026
Freelance
Product Designer
2014-2017
Experience Designer
2013-2014
Airbnb
Interface Designer
2011-2013
Instructor
2010-2012
Miami Ad School
UX Designer
2009-2011
Freelance
Art Director
2006-2008
Live Nation