
Scott Perket
Founder, Forge Studio in California, He/him
Currently taking on projects at Forge.is.
July 20, 2026
Founder at Forge Studio. Product design.
Contact
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Work Experience
2019 — Now
Remote & San Francisco Bay Area, CA
I run Forge, a principal-led product design and design systems studio of designers with in-house tech experience.
As of Q3 2026, we've delivered $10M across 70+ clients, including Coinbase, Roblox, Cruise, Instacart, Robinhood, Affirm, Salesforce, AWS, Handshake, Guideline, Airtable, Grammarly, Peregrine, Jack in the Box, Samsung TV Plus, EarnIn, and more with no sales team or ad spend, just 99.9% word-of-mouth.
BUILDING AND LEADING THE STUDIO
Co-founded Forge in 2019 and grew it to 28 people and $2M+ revenue in three years
Hired and led 80+ Product Designers, UX Researchers, Content Strategists, Brand Designers, Producers, and Engineers across full-time and contract
Scaled teams up to 45–50 active contributors at peak, flexing to match demand across market cycles
Took sole ownership in 2022 and now run the studio lean by design
REBUILT TO BE AI-NATIVE
It now runs as a solo-principal studio on an architecture I built myself, delivering at a level that used to take a team of FTEs.
A four-layer operating system (prompt, context, harness, loop) that keeps every agent run safe and improve on the last, with quality verdicts fed back automatically
My design judgment encoded into a binding spec (tokens, motion, interaction vocabulary, taste rules) that every build inherits, so craft is enforced, not re-argued
A library of skills and SOPs that run the practice: engagement setup, forced divergence, red-teaming, automated design QA that grades work before a human sees it
~15 live automations across finance, ops, and reporting so overhead runs itself
Thesis: a design system shouldn't just enforce rules, it should judge output and know when to follow, bend, or evolve them. Built for agents and humans alike.
SERVICES
Consumer and enterprise UX
UX re-architecting for scale
AI-first multi-brand design systems and component libraries
0-to-1 platform strategy and MVP design
Consumer-grade UX for complex enterprise and data tools
https://www.forge.is
2001 — 2019
California, Missouri, Remote
Notable clients: Google Analytics, Square, Worklife (v1 MeetingHero), Varo, Copper CRM (Prosperworks), Zapier (v1), SmartRecruiters, and more.
2015 — 2017
Menlo Park, CA
2017 — 2017
2014 — 2015
San Francisco, CA
2013 — 2014
San Francisco, CA
2012 — 2013
San Francisco, CA
2011 — 2011
Columbia, MO
2007 — 2009
Ozark, MO
2005 — 2007
Springfield, MO
2005 — 2005
Springfield, MO
Projects
2024 — 2026
Ongoing
2023
Meredith Lanska
2023
The Forge team created a powerful toolkit for creating beautiful and user-friendly applications on the EigenLayer platform. With the increasing popularity of EigenLayer and its role in revolutionizing Ethereum, there was a need for cohesive and intuitive user experiences across the ecosystem.
This design system provides a comprehensive set of design guidelines, components, and resources that empower developers and designers to build consistent interfaces that align with EigenLayer’s brand standards.
2023
Supported the rollout of an upcoming rebrand through a platform-agnostic multi-brand design system that created a new unified, flexible, and scalable baseline user experience that could unify their native apps, and adapt to their current and future needs, and support the launch of a new product channel going zero-to-one on the MVP of their first responsive web product.
2023
We're thrilled to share a behind-the-scenes look at our process as we design a v1 design system & web app for Webprints new 3D printing community platform!
Follow along at #forgewebprints as we share posts & videos showcasing our journey. #buildinginpublic is new and exciting to us but way outside our comfort zone. Join us!
2022
In conjunction with the University of Hawaii's Community Design Center, Forge led the digital transformation of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from mostly offline data and business workflows to helping the organization write a cloud platform RFP; strategic field and organizational research to gather messaging and user requirements for customer messaging, documentation, guided workflows, official website, and resident portal; design and development of a new, scalable website; and the design of an entirely new resident portal.
2021 — 2023
Generative and evaluative research; requirements gathering; physical product design; digital product design (UI/UX); audio design; oversaw team building physical prototypes; designed, created, and tested digital UI/UX prototypes of in-store charging; mapping; and on-cart tablet UX.
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2022
2020
Massive platform-agnostic multi-brand design system for an umbrella company with dozens of web media properties, consultancies, software, and managed services including Euromoney, InsuranceInsider, TheDeal,
2016
Slight redesign of ads measurement in Ads Manager, Power Editor, and various insights tools to introduce a scalable framework for accommodating the growing amount of ad formats and placements available to advertisers in measurement and Facebook Ads & Business tools.
2016
Role: Owner (Product Manager, UX designer)
Auditing of all public metrics across all Facebook family platforms; identification of redundant or confusing metrics (either due to inconsistent naming conventions or lack of clarity of how the metric is calculated); company-wide coordination with content strategy, product management, design, and engineering to establish more scalable and clear metric naming, descriptions, and help documentation to help reduce confusion of what a metric is, how it is calculated, and how it is often used in conjunction with other metrics to derive particular insights; and the design of contextual in-product help and education UI components and interactions.
2016
Supported the launch of reactions on Facebook through PMing and product design of reaction measurement in Facebook Ads, Page Manager, Page Insights, and more.
2016
Supported the launch of Instagram ads measurement in Facebook Ads Manager and Power Editor by establishing a new framework for the growing number of potential ad placement platforms and formats.
2015
2013 — 2014
2013 — 2014
2013 — 2014
2013 — 2014
2013
2012 — 2013
2012 — 2013
2012 — 2013
2012 — 2013
2012 — 2013
2012
Real-time video conferencing and chat tools
Side Projects