# Daniel Urquhart

> I design financial products. Then I build them. Eight years designing trading tools, staking apps and developer infrastructure for fintech and Web3 teams. Now I take the work from first sketch to production code, so nothing gets lost in a handoff.

Daniel Urquhart (Dan) is a senior product designer and design engineer in Berlin, working remotely with fintech and Web3 teams. I'm a British designer based in Berlin. I've been designing since 2013, and for the last eight years on financial products, from leading LSEG's design system team to Head of Design at Pye. I usually work remotely with US teams.

Site: https://www.urquhart.design/ (the front door is a 3D room, URQ-224, and needs WebGL; every page below is plain HTML). Contact via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-urquhart/. Full text of the whole site in one file: https://www.urquhart.design/llms-full.txt

## About

- [About Daniel Urquhart](https://www.urquhart.design/about/): who he is, what he designs and builds, the teams, what he is looking for, how to get in touch.

## Case studies

- [Pye](https://www.urquhart.design/work/pye/): Two years of R&D on what staked SOL can do: every product designed, most of them built, on one design system.
- [Foundry](https://www.urquhart.design/work/foundry/): Pye’s design system: a dense trading UI built from paper, embossed and pressed, in Figma, then Storybook, then code.
- [Merlin](https://www.urquhart.design/work/merlin/): A seated retro computer in a space pod, built in Blender and three.js, with Merlin OS on the screen and my portfolio on its disk.
- [Valorem](https://www.urquhart.design/work/valorem/): On-chain options trading: the options chain, order ticket, exercise and redemption states, and the design system.
- [Haptic](https://www.urquhart.design/work/haptic/): A design sprint to v1.0: binary options on Uniswap V3 pairs.
- [Kodex](https://www.urquhart.design/work/kodex/): A pro trading app for the ENS domain market, plus brand and landing page.
- [Obol](https://www.urquhart.design/work/obol/): The Distributed Validator Launchpad, a seven-step setup flow for groups of Ethereum operators, plus brand.
- [Rated Network](https://www.urquhart.design/work/rated-network/): A one-month brand and MVP sprint.
- [MakerDAO](https://www.urquhart.design/work/makerdao/): The new website, brand guidelines and component library, and a new creative direction.
- [Agentcoin](https://www.urquhart.design/work/agentcoin/): Brand and website. Now aitv.gg.
- [Minterest](https://www.urquhart.design/work/minterest/): A brand and product sprint at Deep Work Studio.
- [ETHA Lend](https://www.urquhart.design/work/etha-lend/): A brand and product sprint at Deep Work Studio.
- [RideHere](https://www.urquhart.design/work/ridehere/): An MVP prototype for hosting electric scooters, designed in a five-day sprint to test with potential users.
- [Huma](https://www.urquhart.design/work/huma/): An admin portal for setting up patient care plans: modules, learning sections, questionnaires and deployments.
- [LSEG Forge](https://www.urquhart.design/work/lseg-forge/): Led the design system team for Forge, across the Refinitiv and LSEG digital ecosystem.
- [Deep Work](https://www.urquhart.design/work/deep-work/): Product, branding and web design sprints for early-stage crypto projects.

## Field notes

- [All field notes](https://www.urquhart.design/notes/): short dated working notes. RSS: https://www.urquhart.design/feed.xml
- [Operator's Manual](https://www.urquhart.design/notes/operators-manual/): URQ-224 has a manual. Ten chapters, 26 pages, in the voice of a crew manual.
- [Come aboard](https://www.urquhart.design/notes/come-aboard/): Merlin's sign-in is a visitor pass now. One button, Come aboard.
- [Field Notes](https://www.urquhart.design/notes/field-notes/): Field Notes is live, in Merlin and on the desk. A note is a Markdown file.
- [Weaponised ADHD](https://www.urquhart.design/notes/weaponised-adhd/): Built a Discord support bot, Slack app, Supabase database and automations. Designed a spaceship. Built a browser inside a browser. Did product design and FE. Lunch with my best mate.
- [Merlin OS](https://www.urquhart.design/notes/merlin-os/): Refined the ship model, new logo direction. Working on Field Notes and Transmissions.
- [Pye Finance](https://www.urquhart.design/notes/pye-finance/): CDP prototype, design iterations, team sync.

## Elsewhere

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-urquhart/): the contact route and the CV.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/DanUrq)
- [X](https://x.com/DanielUrq)

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://www.urquhart.design/sitemap.xml)
- [Person schema](https://www.urquhart.design/about/): JSON-LD on the about page, @id https://www.urquhart.design/#dan.