Hugh Berrymanproduct designer & design engineer
I turn complex workflows into clear interfaces and working code.
Product designer and design engineer at Freeport-McMoRan, connecting design systems, AI-assisted tools, and industrial software from research through implementation.
- Currently
- Senior Product Designer, Freeport-McMoRan
- Based in
- Phoenix, Arizona
01Selected work
- 01/042025–26
MDS 2.0 / Prototyping Studio / FORGE
From component library to working prototypes
I turned a component sandbox into a shared workspace where designers can create responsive prototypes, review their source, and use the same design-system instructions as coding assistants.
Design systemsProduct designDesign engineeringFigma Code ConnectFlutterAI tooling
Read the case study - 02/042024–26
RAMP / Remote Asset Management Platform
Making a five-system alert chain operable
I led design from discovery through production for an alert-handling workflow spanning five technical layers, helping operations review equipment signals, document findings, and create maintenance notifications in one place.
5
technical layers translated into one alert-handling workflow
Complex workflowsObservabilityEnterprise productInformation architectureResponsive design
Read the case study - 03/042024–25
MIRA 2.0
Making a model's recommendation arguable
On-site research shaped an operator review flow that puts model forecasts, current settings, and the consequence of accepting, adjusting, or rejecting a recommendation together at the point of decision.
~20%
lower recommended fresh-ferric addition than the legacy bleed calculator
Monitored seven-day comparison, internal tracking.
Data visualizationMachine learningField researchInformation design
Read the case study - 04/042025
Company-wide ServiceNow platform
Making employee support easier to navigate
I translated employee research into clearer navigation, request flows, and a shared visual system for a company-wide ServiceNow redesign, working with developers to make it fit the platform.
User researchInformation architectureNavigationVisual designEnterprise platform
Read the case study
◇Selected artifacts
Systems, product states, and implementation artifacts from the selected case studies, shown at the proportions that make their details legible.
8 artifacts
MINERAL DESIGN SYSTEM 2.0 (MDS) A prototype opened in the responsive review canvas. Designers can resize the working experience, inspect its source contents, review comments, and assess breakpoint coverage without separating the preview from its repository context.
MDS 2.0 The Figma Variables editor with nine collections listed and the TextInput States matrix open: fifteen rows resolving stroke, radius, label, and text roles across five component states.
MDS 2.0 Figma's Code Connect panel reporting Connected, mapping one button component set to five Flutter theme-extension symbols including FilledButton.tonal, above the generated Dart preview.
MIRA Step two of the recommendation wizard. Six impurities are forecast on a shared axis against one spec line, and the accept, adjust, and reject actions each show the setpoint they would produce.
MIRA The job run result, leading with the schedule overrun before the production arithmetic, then eight range-bounded compliance meters that each state an in or out of spec verdict.
A photographic avatar on the attribution chip is blurred.
RAMP The RAMP MVP Figma file zoomed out. Sections map one to one onto Azure DevOps epics and features, 86 layers are marked ready for dev, and four breakpoints exist per screen.
SERVICENOW The modernized employee platform home page: clear routes into search, frequent destinations, submissions, and approvals for a workforce of approximately 28,000.
A colleague's avatar and first name in the greeting are blurred.
SERVICENOW The company-wide redesign file: re-architected navigation and feature flows supported by a global token sheet authored for ServiceNow-compatible SCSS.
Earlier work
A few earlier projects connect the resume to the work: Tribal's first design system, a connected expense platform, and a React Native product I co-founded.
Tribal Credit Design system2020–23
Centro
I created Tribal's shared design system, defining reusable components, a unified color palette, and interface guidelines for its product and engineering teams.
View on Dribbble
Tribal Credit Product platform2020–23
Tribal Platform
I designed the cards, payments, reporting, and navigation workflows that connected Tribal's expense platform across web and mobile.
View on Dribbble
Whoin Design + React Native2019–20
Whoin
I co-founded Whoin, a community discovery app, and took it from Figma designs to a released React Native product.
View on Dribbble
02How it is built
The portfolio is part of the evidence.
Typed content drives the portfolio, printable resume, metadata, and machine-readable routes. The Lab brings its theme, localization, and interface tests into one live viewer.
- 01
One content source
Typed modules feed the home page, case studies, resume, metadata, and machine-readable versions without duplicate claims.
- 02
Localization as a test system
Generated pseudo-copy stress-tests string expansion, ICU placeholders, and logical LTR and RTL layout without presenting machine-made translations as audience-facing languages.
- 03
One system, several readers
The same material renders as web pages, a printable resume, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and a complete sitemap.
- 04
A repeatable delivery gate
Type checks, lint, automated tests, and a production build run on every pull request and main-branch push.
03About
I'm based in Phoenix, working on software that helps people make decisions about real equipment. An operator needs to understand what a model recommends, why, and what to do next. A maintenance team needs to trace an alert back to its cause. Those are the kinds of problems I like to work through.
I stay close to implementation: connecting Figma variables to Flutter themes, building tools that turn system rules into working prototypes, and writing React and TypeScript. Before Freeport-McMoRan, I grew from Tribal Credit's first product-design hire into Director of Product Design, leading 10 designers while staying hands-on with product and design-system work.
04Experience
- Tribal CreditDirector of Product Design2022–23Senior Product Designer2021–22Product Designer & React Native Developer2020–21First product-design hire; designed and shipped in React Native, then grew and led a team of 10 product designers2020–23View in résuméRelated evidence: Centro · Tribal Platform
05Recommendations
What leaders, product partners, and designers say about working with me.
Hugh combines a keen sense of strategic thinking with a hands-on approach to design leadership. He doesn't just design; he thinks ahead, aligning every project with our broader business goals while keeping creativity at the forefront.
Chief Product Officer, Tribal CreditManaged Hugh directly
Published on LinkedIn
I've had the pleasure of working with Hugh for almost 5 years, and he has been instrumental in designing customer-centric products that have helped grow our company from seed-stage to Series B with presence across 10 markets. Hugh has always been exceptional in transforming complex requirements into seamless user experiences and products that customers love.
Group Product ManagerWorked with Hugh on different teams
Published on LinkedIn
Hugh played a large role in helping to improve our design system processes. His insights and meticulous approach were instrumental in improving them and strengthening collaboration with engineering. In a short timeframe, he taught the team valuable design system methods that enhanced our workflow and productivity.
Director, User Experience (UX), Symetra InsuranceWorked with Hugh at Symetra Insurance
Published on LinkedIn
Thanks to his guidance, I've grown from a junior designer to leading design for a new product as a Product Designer. Hugh is also a strong advocate of systems thinking and integrating tools like design systems or DesignOps to support others' work.
Product Designer, Tribal CreditWorked with Hugh at Tribal Credit
Published on LinkedIn