Richard began his career designing the UX of web sites for numerous dot com start ups as well as large organisations including Barclaycard. He moved on to become the user experience lead at Multimap, Europe’s most popular mapping site, which was acquired by Microsoft. As a UX strategist at Clearleft, his work includes designing a radical new location-based search for Gumtree, designing the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea website from the Council’s internal culture outwards, and redefining the digital strategy for Theirworld, a charity campaigning for the education of all children globally.
In his current role as managing director, Richard oversees the running of Clearleft as an employee-owned company. He does this while maintaining a close relationship with clients and helping shape the outcomes the Clearleft team achieve in both project work and our events. Richard was named as one of Wired UK’s top 100 digital power brokers.
Web typography evangelism
Richard has a love and fascination for typography and co-founded Fontdeck, a pioneering web font service. As a self-appointed web typography evangelist, Richard created Clearleft’s series of Ampersand web typography conferences. He successfully Kickstarted and self-published a Web Typography book, which is now available as ebook and paperback.
Richard is an in-demand speaker and has featured at numerous conferences around the world including An Event Apart, CSS Day, Web Directions, Smashing Conf, and the Service Design Fringe Festival. He’s particularly passionate about service design and web typography. Get in touch if you’re interested in having Richard speak at your event – he’s equally happy at grassroots meet-ups as he is at global conferences.
Chat with Richard
Richard has cleared a block in his calendar for ‘Unoffice hours’. This means he’s available every Friday morning (UK time) for a 30 minute chat about pretty much anything you like. You can book a time slot that works for you.
