About Rich Williams
I'm a multi-disciplinary, big picture thinker who fuses together psychology, design, and forward-thinking to build sustainable design thinking solutions that create positive impact. I believe unconventional, flexible, creative problem-solving gives us the toolkit our world needs to tackle all sorts of local and global issues (for both today and tomorrow), and as a consultant and coach I can help you or your team develop more creative, adaptable, forward-thinking solutions.
About Rich Williams
I'm a multi-disciplinary, big picture thinker who fuses together psychology, design, and forward-thinking to build sustainable design thinking solutions that create positive impact.
I believe unconventional, flexible, creative problem-solving gives us the toolkit our world needs to tackle all sorts of local and global issues (for both today and tomorrow), and as a consultant and coach I can help you or your team develop more creative, adaptable, forward-thinking solutions.
About Richly Williams
I’m a multi-disciplinary, big picture thinker who fuses together psychology, design, and forward-thinking to build sustainable design thinking solutions that create positive impact.
I believe unconventional, flexible, creative problem-solving gives us the toolkit our world needs to tackle all sorts of local and global issues (for both today and tomorrow), and as a consultant and coach I can help you or your team develop more creative, adaptable, forward-thinking solutions.
My experience and services to you
Over the past 15 years I’ve gained experience going from a freelance UI to UX to service designer, to an experienced innovation and brand consultant who can ideate or facilitate innovation, branding, and/or experience solutions for your business needs, or non-profits needs (via social innovation).
As an innovation consultant my main role is to get your creative juices flowing (out of the same tried processes) to help you think differently and envision out-the-box solutions to problems (or opportunities) that support your business objectives in a new way, and as a brand consultant I can help you develop a core brand identity and strategy to define (or redefine) what your business is about.
What’s the price for design and/or consulting work?
A lot of thought space always goes into my projects. I know my value and my experience, and what I can bring to the table is often a unique blend of creative vision, technical skills, and logical reasoning.
It’s hard to price a project upfront and it will generally require an initial consultation to gain a greater idea of your needs and the resulting costs. Note: Certain projects may also require outsourcing work to specialists within my network.
Some projects will work out best for both the client and myself on an hourly rate (which is at least £50 an hour depending on the project), others will be on a project basis, and others a variation. Contact me today to discuss your needs.
“This is just a TESTimonial, please ignore, real ones will be added soon.“
Frank Grant
Testing Inc.
“This is just a TESTimonial, please ignore, real ones will be added soon.“
Frank Grant
Testing Inc.
“This is just a TESTimonial, please ignore, real ones will be added soon.“
Frank Grant
Testing Inc.
JOURNEY CV
I'm Rich Williams,
Welcome to my Journey CV: a new take on the traditional CV. After all, as a multi-disciplinary, adaptable design thinker and disruptor you have to do things a bit differently! A Journey CV aims to look forward as much as back, as it merges a career CV into a journey timeline of insightful milestone events, stories, experiences, achievements, knowledge, and goals into one.
About Rich Williams (A Multidisciplinary Career)
I’m a freelance innovation & branding consultant, and UX/UI designer, with over 15 years of broad experience of bringing psychology, design, and future-thinking together to helps clients, as seen through my human-centered ethical design thinking group, Richly UXD.
I’m also a travel adventurer, writer, and budding future-thinking thought leader, having founded Richly Wills – an active human development education hub of articles, resources and programs that helps both inspire and activate many individuals & teams to challenge daily mindset shifts and see things from a new angle in becoming Changemakers who are adaptable, creative and innovative.
I believe in the philosophy that adaptability (our AQ) and unconventional living helps fuel better creativity, awareness, innovation, and open willpower in life and work, that each of us can become innovative, flexible problem-solvers to humanity’s shared local and global issues, and that you don’t need to be conventional to progress in life (quite the contrary these days, as this multidisciplinary career Journey CV shows via living an unconventional life that expanded my experiences, skills and knowledge further than I would’ve conventionally over time).
Contact me if you have a question or want to know more about a freelance service:
About Rich Williams (A Multidisciplinary Career)
I’m a freelance ethical design thinker, UX designer, branding strategist, and innovation consultant with over 15 years of broad experience of bringing psychology, design, and future-thinking together to helps clients, as seen through my human-centered design thinking brand Richly UXD.
I’m also as a travel adventurer, writer, and budding future-thinking thought leader, having founded Richly Wills – an active human development education hub of articles, resources and programs that helps both inspire and activate many individuals & teams to challenge daily mindset shifts and see things from a new angle in becoming Changemakers who are adaptable, creative and innovative.
I believe in the philosophy that adaptability (our AQ) and unconventional living helps fuel better creativity, innovation, and open willpower in life and work, that each of us can become innovative, flexible problem-solvers to humanity’s shared local and global issues, and that you don’t need to be conventional to progress in life (quite the contrary these days, as this multidisciplinary career Journey CV shows via living an unconventional life that expanded my experiences, skills and knowledge further than I would’ve conventionally over time).
Contact me if you have a question or want to know more about a freelance service:
Journey CV Timeline
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Experience, Stories & Skills
There’s this notion that you have to be cut throat to make it in life, but it seems to us that this notion is born out of fear of survival rather than desire to thrive.
Of course, every business needs to operate to make money but this certainly doesn’t mean you forego thinking about your customers needs to make a quick buck. It actually means the opposite today. You deliver what your customers need and create value through the experience and service you offer them.
There’s a worry amongst businesses that becoming so focused on human needs over profits and adopting this more ‘altruistic’ circular economy approach to business will see their profits decrease, but studies have shown that the opposite is true.
Your business ends up making more money because of the time and energy saved on wasteful marketing practices (before knowing what’s needed), plus less material cost and waste is created by thinking about problems and solutions sustainably.
Richly UXD has helped a variety of different business needs from startups, SME’s, non-profits and individual projects, through Design 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 services.
We work with all industry types looking to take their business towards the needs of their consumers both today and tomorrow, but we understand that certain industries are more standard and traditional than others, and therefore they may require more incremental (rather than radical change) at first.
We have a lot of experience as dedicated design thinkers who can scope out the problems and the forward-thinking solutions that can help your local business or startup not only deliver better products / services / brand and experiences to your clients or customers, but help you think about the ahead-of-the-curve potential of your business in terms of forward-thinking solutions that will help you stand out from your competition for delivering better value (not just experience).
For non-profits looking to develop social innovation impact then we also have can also help.
This is the ‘how long is a piece of string’ question.
Each project and clients needs vary in so many factors from timeframe, depth, and cross-platform solutions.
Often our prospective clients know they want to develop a better experience for their product or service, or want a certain design package, but have little idea in the best approach for their needs or how all the elements fit together, which is why we also help with sprint facilitation to help them target and define the right focus and touchpoints for their project.
We encourage you to either email or call us with your requirements and we can help find the best route forward for your goals.
We are only a small in-house team, but we are a growing network of remote design thinkers, so we can find the right expert to fit the design thinking requirements for your project.
Richly UXD started out as the graphic design freelancing entity of Rich Williams. Rich gained experience working in design agencies for 5 years following university, before moving to freelancing full time 10 years ago (2011-12).
Over time Richly UXD emerged as a small group of designers merged and outsourced work to each other’s expertise, which gradually found more of a specialism within helping local SME’s and startups develop their web presence through good visual communication and user experience.
Over the past 5 years the emphasis on Richly UXD has shaped around more ethical and future-minded projects where design thinking has become a central part in how Richly operates and innovates concepts and solutions through solving problems first.
Over the last 2 years Richly UXD expanded to become a central education hub for helping people and businesses develop more adaptable, creative and innovative thinking to their brand / products / services / projects etc., which led to the development of this new site Richly Wills.
Richly UXD services now connect together with the Richly Wills active education side in helping people embrace daily mindset shifts to become changemakers and ethical design thinkers who can challenge problems from a new direction.
Contact Rich Williams
Simply enter your question or enquiry below and I will get back to you ASAP. If you are a prospective client researching my credentials (they aren’t on social media, for good reason) then I invite you to please have a look around the whole site (including both Richly UXD case studies and Richly Wills articles), and to contact me with the freelance service/s you are interested in below.