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Richard Alvarez

Principal – Digital Experience Practice

Richard is an UX leader with more than 30 years of experience in the corporate, agency, and start-up environments.

He continually strives for collaborative UX thinking and streamlined UX processesin the constantly evolving digital space. Richard works closely with his team and with our clients to develop innovative solutions.

His prior professional experience includes key leadership roles at Method Engine, Brintannica.com, and Jack Morton. I co-founded CafeXplorer, LLC, a cloud-based suite of tools bringing scheduled live-streaming events to brands. I’m the author of the first book on Adobe’s Generator Flash and I’ve taught New Media courses at Northwestern University.

LATEST EXPERT INSIGHTS
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Faster Together: The Five AI Agents That Work Alongside Our Designers
Richard Alvarez

In brief: Our AI setup is a small team of specialist agents, not one model doing everything. An Orchestrator agent coordinates the work, an Analyze agent works out what a screen...

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Faster Together: A Design System Built for Humans and Machines: Making It Readable for AI
Richard Alvarez

In brief: Our design system holds far more than reusable components. We documented it in structured MD and MDX files so an AI could reason about it as well as use it. Four...

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Faster Together: How We Took a Product Design Cycle from Four Weeks to Just Over One
Richard Alvarez

In brief: Going four times faster started with understanding what the client actually needed: speed they could trust, with designs that were validated and ready to build. So we...