Adam Ruf
Staff Product Designer at brightwheel
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Ruf is a Staff Product Designer based in Seattle with 15+ years of cross-disciplinary experience designing impactful consumer and enterprise products across mobile, web, and design systems. He has led high-complexity mobile initiatives at Shopify and brightwheel, driving consistency, accessibility, and experimental zero-to-one features like 3D scanning and generative-AI product copy. Adam combines hands-on visual and interaction design with front-end development and a history of teaching, which helps him translate design strategy into shipping, measurable outcomes. He’s comfortable operating in product-engineering-UX trifectas, running empathy-building accessibility tests, and evolving UI kits to boost designer productivity. Prior roles at Twitch, Yahoo/BrightRoll, and AngelList show a pattern of improving creator and advertiser experiences through system thinking and pragmatic prototyping. Outside product work, his background teaching UX and studying Mandarin and environmental management hints at a curious, human-centered approach to complex problems.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Psychology, B.A. Psychology at University of MinnesotaMaster's Environmental Management, Master's Environmental Management at The University of QueenslandIntermediate Level Certificate Chinese Langugage (Mandarin), Intermediate Level Certificate Chinese Langugage (Mandarin) at Beijing Language and Culture University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
react9
vscode-extension9
design-tokens9
component-library8
typescript8
figma-plugin8
shopify8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
Shopify/polaris
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
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