Product design lead

Building products, design systems and teams that scale. A multi-disciplined design leader, with more than 10 years experience designing digital products.

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Philosophy

Bias for action

Tangible design requires just enough research, confidence and momentum. Trust your intuition, capitalise on insights and fail fast.

Ownership

Don't sacrifice long-term value for short-term results within the teams you operate, or the products and features you deliver.

Systems & scale

Scale is not easy, it requires simplicity, new thinking, tools, training, and evangelising for automation and reusability.

Case studies

OCI Console redesign

Leading the product vision and end-to-end redesign of the OCI console.

Design leadership
Product vision
Design systems

OCI Console Homepage

A re-imagined homepage experience that provides flexibility, personalisation and contextual data to OCI users.

Discovery
Product vision
Advanced prototyping

Factiva, reimagined

Dow Jones' legacy product, reimagined for generalist users with a modern tech stack and design system.

Discovery
Product vision
Design systems

Amazon SmileCode

Harnessing Amazon’s visual search technology to fulfil a mobile-first search and advertising need.

Visual search
Design sprint
USPTO Patent

Landing Spaces

Leading a small team at an E-commerce startup to build a robust B2B SaaS product and Sketch design system.

Start up
Design leadership
Design systems

Highlights

Testimonials

Sean Reed

Lead Product Designer, New Relic

"In our time together at OCI he was an amazing mentor, and I learned something new from him every interaction. His attention to detail and level of organization was unparalleled, as he clearly articulated different approaches across various features, user flows, and information architecture, while never losing sight of the bigger picture and how it all fit together."

Christina Ho

Product Designer, Alfred

“He made sure that I felt supported as a designer joining a new team/project and was a great communicator. I've thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with him and find that he goes above and beyond to deliver the best work possible, pushes my critical thinking skills, is a great partner to brainstorm with, and has the rare ability to be both extremely detail-oriented and consider a product from all aspects and look at the big picture."

Shaun Post

Interaction Designer, Google

"Richard is one of the most brilliant product designers I’ve had the pleasure of working with in my career. He is a true friend and mentor. Richard and I worked cross functionally on Amazon’s SmileCode. Bringing a concept to fruition; an amazing collaboration between teams spanning multiple organizations and disciplines to bring this technology to life."

Verónica Aguilar

Senior Product Designer

“Richard showed outstanding leadership skills in every step of the process by actively advocating for the product goals and users. I saw him tackle difficult situations always with a considerate and goals-driven perspective. Richard is an incredible person, an excellent mentor, and an astonishingly organized designer.

Olu Meduoye

Senior Front-end Developer, Dare

"I worked with Richard for almost a year and it was a true pleasure. He's hardworking, intelligent and meticulous, and he brought dearly needed UX expertise to our team. He pushed for products to be designed in a way that could easily scale, and he was very adept at communicating his ideas, insights and vision to his product team and my frontend developers."

Daniel Apt

Technical Product Manager, Amazon

“I had the great pleasure of working together with Richard at Amazon Advertising. He has an exceptional talent at creating customer experiences that are both beautiful and user-friendly. I experienced this firsthand, when I collaborated with Richard on the creation of Amazon SmileCodes. Richard is an invaluable addition to any team and I highly recommend working with him!”