Derick Schweppe
Lead Product Designer at Garmin
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerick Schweppe is a Lead Product Designer with eight years of focused experience in industrial and product design, currently shaping hardware and UX at Garmin from his base in Lawrence, Kansas. He blends hands-on prototyping, CAD, and visual branding with voice and UX design expertise developed as Chief Design Officer at Mycroft AI, where he helped launch the company via a successful Kickstarter. His background spans agency and in-house roles—from consumer products and transportation to startups—paired with a long freelance practice serving clients like Copco and Wilton Industries. A former university design lecturer, Derick brings a pragmatic educator’s clarity to cross-disciplinary teams and a knack for turning concept sketches into production-ready products. Notably comfortable across physical and digital interfaces, he bridges industrial design craft with product strategy for connected devices.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MycroftAI/hardware-mycroft-mark-II
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
Mycroft's Mark II Rpi mechanical, electrical and industrial designs
Contributions:131 commits, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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dschweppe/skill-moon-phase
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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