is currently leaeding design at Checkmate where he’s taken the product from MVP to 1M+ users.
He is also a first-generation Mexican-American, first-generation college graduate and an unashamed Weezer fan.
He aspires to create a human-centric future with equitable design and love.
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jan 11 at 2:33 PM
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Hello! Thank you for stopping by the About Page.
As you may have learned from my sidebar, I am Matthew Rudas.
I have been a few things, a USC Trojan studying economics and songwriting, a music journalist at LiveNation and EarlyRising, and a law student at UCLA School of Law. However, with an ever-growing knack for the creative, I quickly (and luckily) found out that a life as an attorney was not the life for me.
Thanks to the accessibility of the Google UX Course and with the grace of my extremely talented friends in tech, I was able to test the waters of the world of design and I am forever grateful that I did. Design literature (most importantly User Friendly by Cliff Kuang), user reserach, and visual design, ignited a new hope that made me think work could end up being something I enjoyed (an idea that was beginning to seem too good to be true.)
I fantacize about designing a user-friendly world that considers the fundamental goals and underlying ethics of user-centric design. I aspire to design applications, products, websites, and a world that allows users to become more human -- to uncover their greatest self, find more leisure, and to achieve high order desires. I see design as the most future-oriented opportunity to create a world I will be proud to pass on to future generations and most proud to have a role in shaping.
On a more personal note, I am a fan of many things, most fundamentally, The Beatles (Magical Mystery Tour), Haruki Murakami novels (currently getting through 1Q84), cats (in all shapes and forms), acoustic guitar (with a capo on the 4th fret), singing (loudly), candles (winter-scented), video games (mostly desktop) and pen-drawings (mostly not very good). If we ever get the chance to chat, please ask me about all of the above and more.
best wishes
Matthew Rudas
As you may have learned from my sidebar, I am Matthew Rudas.
I have been a few things, a USC Trojan studying economics and songwriting, a music journalist at LiveNation and EarlyRising, and a law student at UCLA School of Law. However, with an ever-growing knack for the creative, I quickly (and luckily) found out that a life as an attorney was not the life for me.
Thanks to the accessibility of the Google UX Course and with the grace of my extremely talented friends in tech, I was able to test the waters of the world of design and I am forever grateful that I did. Design literature (most importantly User Friendly by Cliff Kuang), user reserach, and visual design, ignited a new hope that made me think work could end up being something I enjoyed (an idea that was beginning to seem too good to be true.)
I fantacize about designing a user-friendly world that considers the fundamental goals and underlying ethics of user-centric design. I aspire to design applications, products, websites, and a world that allows users to become more human -- to uncover their greatest self, find more leisure, and to achieve high order desires. I see design as the most future-oriented opportunity to create a world I will be proud to pass on to future generations and most proud to have a role in shaping.
On a more personal note, I am a fan of many things, most fundamentally, The Beatles (Magical Mystery Tour), Haruki Murakami novels (currently getting through 1Q84), cats (in all shapes and forms), acoustic guitar (with a capo on the 4th fret), singing (loudly), candles (winter-scented), video games (mostly desktop) and pen-drawings (mostly not very good). If we ever get the chance to chat, please ask me about all of the above and more.
best wishes
Matthew Rudas
