Derek Torsani

...it's you I like.

Every part of you.

Your skin, your eyes, your feelings,

whether old or new.

I hope that you'll remember

every time you're feeling blue.

That it's you I like

it's you yourself, it's you...

— Fred Rogers, 1970

Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other.

— Tupac Shakur, 1992

Systems Design

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A software interface displaying a datepicker.

Plaid

High Contrast Data Visualization, 2022

Role: pattern design, product design

Read about accessible data visualization at Plaid

Gusto

DateField, 2022

Role: product design

Visit DateField documentation

A mobile software software interface displaying a table.

Gusto

DataGrid, 2021

Role: product design

Visit DataGrid documentation

Set of button UI components displaying a variety of validation states.

Oracle Data Cloud

Button, 2019

Role: product design

Read about the Vapor design system

Two examples of mobile software interface dialogs for both Apple and Android operating systems.

Alarm.com

Dialog, 2018

Role: product design

Read about the Signals design system

A search field expanding and showing text being typed in.

Samcart

Expandable Search, 2017

Role: product design, frontend engineering

Open CodePen

Product Design

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A software interface with a menu showing different filters and options for a color visualizer.

Gusto

Team Members Concept, 2021

Redesign concept for the Gusto Dashboard.

Role: product design

Sound Color Project, 2020

Audible to visual spectrum translation.

Role: founder, product design

Sound Color Project

A software interface showing navigation links to different pages within three separate sections.

Oracle Data Cloud

Audience Manager Navigation, 2020

Full-screen navigation menu for multi-feature product.

Role: product design

A mobile software interface for a home security application.

Alarm.com

ADT Dashboard, 2018

Quick action dashboard for ADT's home security mobile app.

Role: product design, prototyping

View prototype

An animation scrolling down a marketing website including photographs, graphics, and icons.

Samcart

Website, 2017

Role: product design, animation

Animation

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Colorful animated shapes on a dark background, the Android Marshmallow Booting screen.

Alarm.com

Signals Design System, 2018

Animation for Alarm.com's design system, Signals.

Read about the Signals design system

A series of graphics displaying different transactional details and occurances.

Halfdollar

Promotional Teaser, 2018

Collaborative and customizable budgeting template.

Visit Halfdollar

Shapes of buildings and signs on buildings appearing.

Sign Code

Promotional Teaser, 2017

Step Sequence, 2016

Concept

Android Marshmallow Boot, 2016

Replica of the booting screen for Android Marshmallow.

Download Adobe AfterEffects file

A circular button with an airplane symbol inside. Once the button is activated, the airplane flies away and returns as if loading.

Flight Search, 2016

Concept

A navigation menu navigating into a deeper level, and back.

Side Navigation Menu, 2015

Concept

A bell icon ringing to initiate a number appearing as a notification.

Twitter Notification, 2015

Concept

A credit card rotating and being scanned.

Card Scan, 2015

Concept

A line drawing of an eye being animated from opened to closed.

Eyeball Show/Hide, 2015

Hamburger menu alternative concept.

Read about the Eyeball Menu

A plus symbol inside a circle transforming into a pencil icon and back to a plus.

Google Inbox Compose, 2015

Concept

A toggle with a pin icon inside switching between on and off.

Google Inbox Pinned, 2015

Concept

A checkmark transforming into an X and back to a checkmark.

Check/Ex, 2015

A menu icon transforming into an arrow icon and back to a menu.

Menu/Arrow, 2015

Video

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Last Month, 2015

Memorial film

Role: cinematography, editing, sound design, voiceover

Sandals Resorts

TV Commercial, 2014

Role: editing, motion graphics

Tulip Gulch, 2013

Promotional trailer for a local haunted house.

Role: cinematography, editing, sound design

*Fear warning!

Below The Line, 2011

Title sequence introduction for a web show.

Role: cinematography, editing, sound design

Logos

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Focaccia & Friends, 2023

Friendly focacceria in Baltimore, MD.

Role: owner, chef, designer

Visit Focaccia & Friends

Chesapeake Catering Company, 2020

Local catering company to Maryland, DC, and Virginia.

Role: designer

Weiigh, 2018

Spreadsheet template for helping to make calculated decisions.

Role: creator, designer

Visit Weiigh

Halfdollar, 2018

Collaborative and customizable budgeting template.

Role: creator, designer

Visit Halfdollar

DJ Joey D, 2017

Local DJ in the DC area.

Role: designer

Doughnut Bar, 2014

Concept doughnut shop.

Role: designer

Other

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Sandals

Discovery Dining, 2015

Promotional book for dining at Sandals Resorts.

Graphic design, layout, typesetting, print proofing

A series of white index cards, each with black yard letters threaded to spell out an abbreviation for 'dance with me'.

srsly, 2010

Yarn weaved in paper

Linguistic commentary on digital messaging communication.

Music

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Intermission

New Life, 2022

LP, Contemporary Rnb

Role: instrumentation, composition, production

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music

PRJCT UNTLD

Home Cooking, 2022

Single, Contemporary Rnb

Role: bass

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music

Derek Torsani

Say Their Names, 2021

EP, Jazz

Role: keys, piano, bass, composition, production

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music / Bandcamp / SoundCloud

Tsimtsum

g(host), 2021

Single, Alternative

Role: instrumentation, composition, production

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music

Derek Torsani

Highland (Live), 2021

Single from Seeds

Role: keys, bass, samples

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music

Derek Torsani

Seeds, 2021

LP, Ambient

Role: keys, piano, bass, drones, composition, production

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music / Bandcamp / SoundCloud

Rudder North

Rudder North, 2012

EP, Folk

Role: acoustic guitar, mandolin, percussion, composition, production

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music / Bandcamp

Rudder North

Redwoods, 2010

LP, Folk

Role: acoustic guitar, mandolin, percussion, harmonica, composition, production

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music / Bandcamp

For Better For Worse

I Remember, 2008

EP, Post-Hardcore

Role: electric guitar, composition

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music

For Better For Worse

Their Eyes, 2007

Single, Post-Hardcore

Role: electric guitar, composition

Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / YouTube Music / Amazon Music

Writing

Design Systems Operations at Plaid, 2022

The Psychological Component of Design Systems, 2021

Designing Systems at Gusto, 2021

So you want to build a design system?, 2021

How we name typography tokens at Gusto, 2021

Signals (Design System for Alarm.com), 2020

Vapor/Redwood (Design System for Oracle), 2020

Autra - Automatic Content Translation, 2018

Being a Color Blind Designer, 2018

My 4.5 Month Journey With Daily UI, 2016

Engagements

Speaker, Murray Hill Middle School Career Day, 2023

Speaker, Experience Design Summit, 2022

Host, Plaid Accessibility Panel, 2022

Speaker, ADPList x DUXA Group Session, 2022

Speaker, Design Systems Community Chapter Toronto, 2021

Feature, Figma Schema, 2021

Speaker, Friends of Figma Lviv, 2021

Speaker, NOVA UX, 2019

Workshop, Hackital DC, 2017

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