Shane D. Grush

Twenty years inside Apple, PayPal, Sonos, Ford, and more.

The names changed. The problem didn't.

Craft CREATIVE LEADERSHIP DESIGN SYSTEMSDESIGN LEAD
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01

Ford Motor Company

Three people around a tablet at a porch cafe table, a Ford Escape parked in the drive
A red Ford Escape parked on a rocky shoreline as two women walk past

Global User Experience

Ford's first design system. We built it in Detroit, carried it around the world, and handed it off strong enough to run without us.

02

Memorial Sloan Kettering

A nurse in blue scrubs and a surgical mask on a hospital floor

Design System

MSK's design system wasn't building trust. I led a growing team at Digitas to fix that, and their team shipped it.

03

State of Michigan

The State of Michigan homepage shown across desktop and mobile
A State of Michigan agency page laid out on the shared design system

Digital Guidelines Next

Michigan had no shared design language across twenty-plus agency websites. Residents felt it, nothing matched, nothing worked the same way twice.

04

CCIM Institute

Three CCIM members walking a glass-walled office corridor in conversation

Homepage Redesign

Sandstorm needed help getting a homepage designed and shipped fast. I delivered the direction. Their team picked it up and carried it through launch.

About

I build the foundation a company can plan against. Twenty years of it, across four industries, mostly in rooms where nobody agreed yet.

Capabilities

Systems.

Strategy and governance, token architecture and theming, accessibility built in at the system level. The foundation work.

Craft.

Creative direction, experience design, interaction and motion. Twenty years of hands still in the work.

Leadership.

Teams, design operations, and AI-aware practice. Systems built so the next person, or the next agent, can run them.

Building something that needs to hold? Let's talk.

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