Speakers
Rich Rutter
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. At Clearleft his work includes designing a radical new location-based search for Gumtree, creating a responsive, mobile-friendly site for Kew Gardens and redesigning the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea website from the Council’s internal culture outwards. Most recently he redefined the digital strategy for Theirworld, a charity campaign for education of children globally. Richard was named as one of Wired UK’s top 100 digital power brokers.
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 is chief organiser of Clearleft’s Ampersand web typography conferences. He successfully Kickstarted and self-published a Web Typography book, which is now available as ebook and paperback.
Richard is a member of the IxDA, London IA group and ATypI. He has spoken at numerous conferences on user experience design and typography, including An Event Apart, UIE’s Web App Summit and UX London.
About the workshop
Collaborative frameworks for your design teams personal development
The design profession has historically been very poor at providing structured professional development frameworks. Organisations often have career ladders defined for engineers and product management, but seemingly few know what to do with design.
If you’re responsible for a design team, how do you retain and develop talent, giving your team meaning, purpose, and ownership?
This workshop will introduce you to an open framework that can answer that question.
- Learn about the importance of giving all team members a clearer sense of where they can progress, or what they can specialise in. How a framework can support an appetite and need for mentoring, support and structure to aid and accelerate professional development.
- You'll be introduced to an open framework which can flex within different structures and requirements within an organisation. You’ll learn how it can be applied to individuals with different skills and ambitions, while still being relevant to the particular needs of a company, whether that’s agency-side or in-house.
- Discuss how we might improve the framework, in the open, for the benefit of the entire industry.
Collaborative frameworks for your design teams personal development
The design profession has historically been very poor at providing structured professional development frameworks. Organisations often have career ladders defined for engineers and product management, but seemingly few know what to do with design.
If you’re responsible for a design team, how do you retain and develop talent, giving your team meaning, purpose, and ownership?
This workshop will introduce you to an open framework that can answer that question.
- Learn about the importance of giving all team members a clearer sense of where they can progress, or what they can specialise in. How a framework can support an appetite and need for mentoring, support and structure to aid and accelerate professional development.
- You'll be introduced to an open framework which can flex within different structures and requirements within an organisation. You’ll learn how it can be applied to individuals with different skills and ambitions, while still being relevant to the particular needs of a company, whether that’s agency-side or in-house.
- Discuss how we might improve the framework, in the open, for the benefit of the entire industry.