Designing AI-first experiences for next-generation wearable hardware.

Connecting Like-Minded People in Worlds

+ Designed audience segmentation systems to connect players with similar interests and social intent, balancing freedom and safety through explicit and implicit signals.

+ Resulted in +7 minutes time spent among players with reciprocal followers and 2% increase in WAU cross-platform

Growth for Families

+ Unlocked growth in onboarding for families with +18K MAU following experimentation, 108K MAU projected annually, and 100+ new headsets added daily with multiple active users. Helped 500K+ multi-user households reduce account sharing and personalize device usage.

+ Improved headset onboarding attempts by ~25% through data-driven design and technical solutions that transformed complex account creation and pairing for secondary users.

+ Led design of age-appropriate account experiences for 50K+ pre-teen VR users, balancing engagement, safety, and compliance in early youth-focused VR.

I design products that solve user problems, elevate brands, and help businesses reach their KPI's. I work collaboratively with cross-functional teams from big tech to 0-to-1 start-up environments, designing Ai wearables, VR, iOS/Android apps, responsive websites, software, and other digital tools & experiences.

Interested in working together? Let's chat—

📧 derek.glazier@gmail.com

RECENT CLIENTS

+ Meta: AI Wearables (present)

+ Meta: VR, Engagement Org

+ Motto: LGBTQ+ dating app (Founder of Grindr)

+ Meta: Business Messaging - API Experiences and People Growth teams

+ Mathison: DE&I Hiring & Training Platform

+ Google: Think with Google, B2B Growth tools, Test my site and My Export Score, and internal web-based training platform for Google Marketers

+ Paypal: Led redesign of global Internal Website

Designing a new way for gay and queer people to casually date and connect. Fostering a sexier, safer inclusive environment. Now available in New York City.

+ Led end-to-end design, collaborated cross-functionally to execute our roadmap focused on driving growth, acquisition, conversion rate optimization, and retention, while solving critical problems in queer dating culture like ‘catfishing’ and flakiness.

+ Designed Motto's NOW virtual rooms, fostering an inclusive environment for people who are serious about meeting up, maintaining a volume of ~110 avg users per room, even reaching ~200 per room at peak.

+ Collaborated with cross-functional partners to optimize the onboarding flow, pushing new users to try virtual rooms, converting 47.53% of first-time users, a 150.5% increase from 18.97% 30 days post-launch of the new flow, as a result of auditing and removing points of friction, integrating a streamlined SMS login, and automating profile verification.

+ Led end-to-end design as a one-designer team; executing 0 to 1 features, user research, building and scaling the design system from scratch, content design, web design, branding, pitches, hiring, and social.

+ Collaborated cross-functionally to execute a roadmap prioritizing growth, acquisition, conversion, and retention rapidly designing and implementing innovative, insight-driven features.

+ Owned design of Stories, resulting in ~63% increase in avg. daily time spent on the app, from 15.3 to 25 min per user, helping us hit our Q3 goal of 15k monthly active users (MAU), a key milestone for proving product market fit.

+ As the sole designer played a pivotal role in the app’s successful launch on both the iOS App Store and Android’s Google Play Store, and the acquisition by Sound.xyz.

+ Leveraged MixPanel analytics and qualitative data gathered in user interviews, A/B testing, moderated user testing, and Discord discussion to conceptualize community-driven features and validate designs.