Hi, I’m Derrick.

Lead UI/UX Designer at DANA, based in Jakarta. Here’s the longer story.

Where it all started.

I grew up in Jakarta filling notebooks with things that didn’t exist yet. That habit followed me into Visual Communication Design at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, majoring in Interactive Media Design, where I kept chasing the same feeling: visuals and logic working together until something felt alive.

Kampung rooftops in Jakarta climbing row after row toward the city skyline, Monas on the horizon
Jakarta

Building my first system.

For my final thesis, I created an Android endless runner game inspired by Alto’s Adventure. I was fascinated by how that game made visual beauty and gameplay feel inseparable, and I wanted to explore that balance in something of my own.

Endless runner game inspired by Alto’s Adventure

My first real UI/UX job.

My first UX internship at Bridestory in late 2018 was the real beginning. It taught me the parts no lecture ever covers: how a deadline changes a decision, how a real user breaks what looked finished in Figma.

Bridestory internship badge

Designing at scale.

After that, I joined DANA and never left, growing from a junior role into Lead UI/UX Designer while the product grew into something tens of millions of people open every day. The biggest shift in my thinking: understanding how strongly business decisions shape what an app actually feels like to use.

DANA app screens

Designing systems, not just screens.

That perspective changed how I design. I think a good product is not just visually polished or easy to use, it also needs to make sense within the goals, constraints, and realities behind it.

Business, user, technology and design overlapping

My career so far

Lead UI/UX Designer

DANA2025 to now

Off the clock

Illustrations I make when there’s time. Drag them around.

Retro city skyline with a red sports car in the foreground
A lone figure walking a desert canyon road toward a parked car
A brownstone corner shop wrapped in trees and foliage
Batman, drawn flat and geometric, cape spread wide
A colossal robot standing over a small figure in a green canyon
A crowd of small figures gathered at the foot of a giant phone saying Hello
A skater carrying a backpack, trailing a night sky full of planets
A snowy forest at dusk with footprints leading between the trees
Someone sitting by a campfire in a dark green clearing