Ruhiu Studio is under construction
Like any good cathedral, it’s taking a while.
the full portfolio is on the scaffold
i about the studio
Ruhiu Studio is the design practice of Kevin Ruhiu, a creative systems designer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
With a background in industrial design, three years at Apple’s Genius Bar, procurement at Biogen, and quality and learning systems at Vertex and Moderna, the work has largely centered on making complex, regulated systems easier to understand and use. Today, that work continues through learning technology for Quality & Compliance Learning at Philips.
The common thread is a fascination with making complicated things clearer, more useful, and more considered.
The studio brings that same approach to digital products, learning experiences, information systems, and visual identities, alongside more tactile work in print, collage, drawing, and image-making.
making complex things clear enough to be understood, useful enough to be used, and considered enough to feel inevitable.
- learning experiencecourses, academies, AI agents for discovery
- information designdashboards, metrics, governance
- brand & imageidentities, print, collage, drawing
ii drawings, 2017–2018
quadrangles
Forty-six cards cut from topographic maps, drawn over in marker and kept in a graph-paper notebook. Each one takes a survey line, a contour or a field boundary and pushes it until the map turns into a pattern.
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Star a card and it will be saved here, on this device.
iii cut paper
affordances
The Affordances series and the collages around it: found magazine pages, maps and atlases, cut and re-set by hand. Select a piece to watch it come together.
iv marker and cut paper
form studies
One prism, one pyramid, one inverted pyramid, drawn again and again and filled with whatever was on the desk. The traced line carries the same three forms from one sheet to the next.
v learning projects
learning lab
A workshop for the learning projects: courses, simulations and small tools, built in public. Open now: ProtoTRAK Mill Sim and ProtoTRAK Lathe Sim, 3D trainers for a CNC bed mill and a CNC lathe.
enter the labcase studies in preparation
- IFrom Required Training to Learning Ecosystemlearning · architecture · governancein preparation
- IIVisualizing Compliancedashboards · metricsin preparation
- IIIAn AI Agent for Learning DiscoveryAI · conversation designin preparation
- IVSpucky’s, a sandwich shop identitybrand · type · palettein preparation