Testimonials

What people have said

Testimonials

What people have said

Working with Rich is very easy because he brings his many years of design experience to the table and can easily draw on his previous experience to bring value to design conversations and lead great workshops and brainstorming sessions. – Winnie Bamra, Senior Product Manager

Congrats to everyone who has made this a reality - as we scale out Career Advice across the globe and help more candidates, the rest of SEEK is loving your work. – Kendra Banks, Managing Director of SEEK ANZ

Rich has led the salary-focused product discovery work on finding the best opportunities and potential solutions. His work has helped guide the Team into a position where they can confidently move forward into the next stage of the product development lifecycle. – John Carroll, Head of Product & User Experience, SEEK Learning

He showed initiative to get the IA sorted for a unified Career Advice. He did not wait to be asked, it needed doing and he did it. He shows his passion for the product everyday. He is involved and proactive about the work we do. – Jeremy Putt, Engineering Manager, SEEK

His own role he is nailing but delivering good design that is informed by continuous interviews that he plans and conducts and then extrapolates the good knowledge from. – Gareth Chainey, Senior userexperince desinger, SEEK

LOVING the new Role Pages features on seek.co.nz. Also great timing as we’re just launching the Seek Advertised Salary Index this week. – Rob Clark, General Manager of New Zealand, SEEK

Richard helped guide the process of discovery, design and experimentation. Throughout, Richard is always a staunch advocate for the customer. I find Richard to be a great help in making sense of where our priorities should be, and how we can achieve our business goals while never (well, mostly never) compromising our principles. Developing new concepts and thinking big with Richard is unfailingly an inspiring and invigorating activity. – Asha Ioculari, Product manager at Open Universities Australia

Richard is a cool headed, hard working, versatile designer and project manager. I’ve never worked with someone so adept at remaining cool under pressure. While we worked together at RT Software, Richard was the go-to man in times of trouble, probably because he was both conscientious and versatile. He was always cognisant of trending design as well as technology and was able to manage multiple, large scale projects at once while remaining friendly and fun to work with. He’s sorely missed – Sebastian Hickey, 3D Designer at RTSoftware

Rich has been instrumental in the qual and quant research project for Digital Medias growth. He has been able to navigate the relationship with Bastion and has been key to ensuring we now have the insights to help support our conversations with education providers and their agencies. Rich managed the day to day communications with them as well as internal stakeholders including marketing, which wasnt always easy. He managed to do this effectively and ensured that our timeline was met on time. – Tonya Willoughby, Head of Commercial and Partner Management, SEEK

Richard has done an amazing job throughout his time at OUA trying to support product teams across the business. He juggles switching between consumer and customer experiences really well and trying to provide enough coverage for all of us. It is a great testament to his capabilities. I also really value the viewpoint that Richard can bring to the table on many other items - from how we might want to structure an experiment through to running that experiment. – Annabelle Parsons, Product manager at Open Universities Australia

Richard has been a great asset to helping me with the UX research this year. Richard has a great focus on customers and what they need. He has been so gracious in picking up the scattered threads, ideas and half baked thoughts and making them into actual research, prototypes and user concepts. Richard continuously improving on ideas and discussing new ways to solve a problem. He has helped me re-think the Student Management concept and how the data exchange and student experiences tie together. – Claire Helme, Product manager at Open Universities Australia

Richard played a pivotal role in helping develop and build the FTSX conversational journeys. He organised all our student interviews, participated in them and asked valuable questions which we may not have thought of otherwise. His insight into the customer is sharp and considered. It was great having along side us. – Lyndon Summers, Product manager at Open Universities Australia

He has spent time going through all the Asia sites to create an IA structure for Career Advice in each location which helps us to better understand the structure and plan for a unified Career Advice across ANZ and Asia. – Jan Lipnicki, Product manager, SEEK Learning

Richard has worked so hard this year between all the teams. Thanks Rich! As hard as it has been it has also been great to have you connect the dots between ideas and product teams. – Claire Helme, Product manager at Open Universities Australia

As friendly as he is intelligent, Richard always has a way of coming up with great solutions for any UX problem. An excellent collaborator, I would consider Richard a prized asset within any creative team. – Samuel Ladlow, Creative Director at Tangent

I really like working with Richard - his direct, honest and blunt approach works with me as we have strong and real conversations, even if we dont always agree. The willingness to have these conversations is really superb. – Annabelle Parsons, Product manager at Open Universities Australia– Claire Helme, Product manager at Open Universities Australia

Richard is an extremely versatile designer and project manager. He has the skills to work on a wide range of design technologies. It is rare to find a person who can combine creative flair, innovative design and technical understanding. He is always cool under pressure and understands his customer. – Steve Hart, Director at RTSoftware

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The UX MBA, a transformative journey for designers who aren't content being mere executors but aspire to be visionaries and leaders.

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Introducing…

The UX MBA, a transformative journey for designers who aren't content being mere executors but aspire to be visionaries and leaders.

I will never spam or sell your info. Ever

I’m Richard, a product designer based in Melbourne.

Designed by Richard Simms

I’m Richard, a product designer based in Melbourne.

Designed by Richard Simms

I’m Richard, a product designer based in Melbourne.

Designed by Richard Simms