Ruby Lucy Wright

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Staff Product Designer at Sony | ex-Alibaba Group

Sony
Sydney, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
11+ years experience
Bandung Institute of Technology
English
Co-founderOpen to work
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Overview

13 years in product design, the last 1 at Sony, where I work on the design systems team. Ran 90 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository. Board member at a local non-profit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Roles in design systems
  • Questions about design systems
  • Working sessions on tokens
  • Second opinions on accessibility decisions
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
component librariesdesign systemstokensaccessibility
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a go-to-market co-founder for school fee payments for gig workers

The idea
School fee payments for gig workers
Stage
Prototype
I bring
8 years in design systems
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Sydney or remote

I bring 13 years of design systems (currently Sony). Ideally you've run operations in Europe. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Sydney, Australia · remote OKtokenscomponent librariesaccessibility
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Senior Product Designer roles in insurance - Sydney or remote

Target roles
Senior Product Designer
Level
Senior
Industries
Logistics, B2B SaaS
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
30 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Australia
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (seed) where design systems is core to the product.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

13 years in design systems. Strongest at accessibility and tokens. Serving notice now.

Sydney, Australiacomponent librariestokensdesign systems
Open

Experience

  1. Staff Product Designer
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Sony · 6 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Built a component library 47 engineers ship with every day.
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
  2. Senior Product Designer
    Dec 2023 - Apr 2026
    Alibaba Group · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
  3. Design Manager
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2023
    PropertyGuru · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Ran 75 usability sessions and turned them into a research repository.
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 55% with clearer copy and states.
  4. Senior Product Designer
    Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
    Gojek · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.
  5. UX Researcher
    Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
    SEEK · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Cut support tickets about design systems by 24% with clearer copy and states.
    • Brought the design systems flows to WCAG 2.2 AA.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from design systems
2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling design systems.

Write-up: design systems in practice
2023

A long-form guide to design systems for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Bandung Institute of Technology
    BEng, Industrial Design
    2009 - 2013

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