Drew Littrell
Product Architecture and Systems Design
Currently serving as fractional CPO and independent advisor on product architecture and systems design. I work with teams whose product has outgrown the structure holding it together. I also write about what AI changes: how things get built, and what people are for.
Selected essays
Essay Before the First Screen Why design should begin with the questions people are trying to answer.
Part 1 The Transition Is Not the Destination AI is a general-purpose coordination technology. When coordination becomes cheap, the structures built around expensive coordination begin to wobble.
Work and Background
For the last fifteen years I've worked across product design, information architecture, and systems strategy. I co-owned Built, where I led product and systems work for clients in consumer, finance, and education. Today I'm the Fractional CPO at Doorpass and run a solo practice focused on product architecture and workflow design.
I'm most useful when the brief is the whole system: a product that's grown past its original shape, or new tools that have changed what's worth building. The work is making the system clear enough that a team can move again.
Select clients
- Adobe
- Bridgewater
- Cornell
- Galaxy
- Nike
- Pearson
Contact
I work with founders and operators whose systems have grown harder to understand than they were to build. The full picture of how that works is on the services page.