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 my design practice. I’m Kevin Ruhiu, a creative systems designer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I trained in industrial design, spent three years at Apple’s Genius Bar, and have since built learning and quality systems for Biogen, Vertex, Moderna and Philips, where I lead learning technology for Quality & Compliance. The work is the same at every scale: take something complex and regulated, and make it clear enough that people use it by choice. The studio is where that habit gets its hands dirty — brand identities, print, collage and drawing. A full portfolio is being set in type; until then, here are a few things made by hand.
I design systems that work beautifully and look like they were always meant to be that way.
- learning experiencecourses, academies, AI agents for discovery
- information designdashboards, metrics, governance that sticks
- 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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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 Sim, a 3D trainer for a CNC bed mill.
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