Richard Edwards

@richardedwards.me

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Co-director at @outlandish.com, designing + building socially positive tech (see https://nookcrm.com 🥳). Also UX at https://openux.design

A meme headshot of Moss from the TV show The IT Crowd
A graphic showing a range of colourful human characters excitedly and thoughtfully looking at some data displays.
A plenary / welcome speaker in front of the Connected Places Summit branding and presentation screen.
Comic panels. Marc Andrees explains his "barbell strategy" for consuming media (whilst sitting under a floating barbell). He reads old books only. He consumes X content. And he listens to actual practitioners in the field. There's so much "alpha" in that.
Comic panels. March Andreeson pointing at large infrastructure like dams, built in the 1930s. He demands to know where the new dams are? The new cities? Uh oh here's a mid-build railway bridge tied up in reams of red tape (handily labelled "regulations").
Comic panels showing dark clouds, shuttered schools, empty playgrounds, charts showing a downward trend. Marc Andreeson explains that we are self-euthanising our economy through depopulation, and that we need AI to do all the jobs people aren't available to do.
Comic panels. Kids are shown pulling AI levers, burning books with the title "Old Rules" whilst Marc Andreeson says "AI should be the ultimate lever for a kid with agency to say, 'I can fully participate. I can change things.'"
Comic panels. Marc Andreeson explains that the ideal education was once one-on-one. Like Aristotle, shown here, teaching a young (and very blonde) Alexander the Great. Then we see a modern kid talking to a weird floaty AI teacher owl. Now a horse-riding adult Alexander juxtaposed in a split pane with the same modern kid in a very screen-filled metal room of the future.
Comic panels. Isaac Newton struggles with turning lead into gold. Suddenly Marc Andreeson appears behind him to inform him that we've achieved alchemy - turning silicon into something far more valuable: thought!
A comic-book style cover of a titan-sized Marc Andreessen crushing a city whilst pulling a lever labelled "AI". The title is "Time to Build: Marc Adreessen on Lenny's Podcast".
The roof of a church at night, looking in from outside. The curve ceiling through the large window, and two hatches in the window, make it look like a frowny face.
A strong, old wooden door in a stone tower wall, which bears the painted words “Commit no nuisance”
A small reddish brown chested kingfisher perches on a brick wall
Jim Carrey gurns like bananas in green makeup as the Grinch
A hearty looking Christmas dinner on a plate, with Yorkshire pudding turkey, pot of extra gravy and all the trimmings!
Screenshot of the tech noir-ish style audio book cover for Empire of AI - Inside the reckless rave for total domination, by Karen Hao
A whiteboard in an office meeting room. Someone has written very large and neatly across the full board: FULL TRAITORS DISCUSSION ALLOWED.
A photo of a tradesperson’s van, belonging to a Metal Roofing Specialist. The business name is Full Metal Jacket.
A map of England overlaid with the text “I’m a member Community Energy England”
A very large brown moth in the corner of a dusty window frame.
A man speaks to a group of people in the street about infrastructure to increase ecological stability.
A photo of the interior of Rochdale Town Hall, with high arched ceilings and stained glass windows reminiscent of a grand church but actually depicting scenes of trade and history.
A screenshot of Lusha.com. It promises: Al Recommended Lists Get an Al-powered personalized recommendations lists of companies and decision makers you should talk to, based on your ICP without manually
An old and mossy gravestone sits at the heart of a large, broad cherry tree. The long, arm like branches reach out horizontally from the base, far and around the headstone toward the camera.
Screenshot of an email, which reads: Richard, At Rosenfeld, we like to keep our finger on the pulse of all things UX, and we pride ourselves on our high-quality content-so much so, that we trained an Al chatbot on our resources. Meet the Rosenbot! Powered by GPT-4-level technology and trained on thousands of hours of curated content from our UX experts, and the entire Rosenfeld Media library (over 60 books!), the Rosenbot is an invaluable research tool in your UX journey!
The vividly designed front cover of CLOSING THE LOOP - Systems Thinking for Designers by SHERYL CABABA. Foreword by Kevin Bethune from Rosenfeld
The front cover of the book Service Design - from Insight to Implementation.
A speckly, tubby sea shell sitting on a red brick.
Very close up shot looking into a white Lilly prominently showing the yellow stamen, with a tiny red bodied spider next to it.
Cover of the book Why Design Is Hard, showing its heavily annotated and humorous design style… alongside a fresh cafe decaf latte
A screenshot of a phone screen showing 24 blue app icons.
A whiteboard showing a conference agenda for the CoTech Gathering. Sessions include those on business development and cooperative tech tools.
Ice crystals on a car roof
A presenter stands in front of a screen showing a slide that reads (in bright and friendly curvy letters) “How light business change if nature had a voice and a vote?”
A book being held up to camera. It’s a slightly dated looking paperback non-fiction book called InterViews - an introduction to qualitative research interviewing.
A box for the card game Spaceteam. The lid shows a 1950s style cartoon rocket, and bears the caption “Spaceteam - a chaotic and cooperative card game”
The box for the MB Games board game PAC-Man
A board game of Pac Man laid out on a kitchen table ready to play, with plastic ghosts, marbles to eat, and hungry little pac men.
A photo of a magazine showing a quote from Joanna Maciejewska: “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
A sketch showing an axis of user research. At one end being more productive by using AI. At the other being more empathetic by not using AI. Both approaches are subject to biases.
A cup of tea and teapot stands on a table in a book filled reading room
A view of user interface, titled "case overview", and showing cards arranged in a series of columns. Each card contains someone's name, and each column heading reflects the stages in a customer's journey when working with a community energy organisation.
Two team members stand in front of a projected presentation saying “co-op hackathon”
Sketch showing two extreme options for using or not using AI in user research. At one end, using AI helps productivity. At the other, not using AI and doing the analysis yourself helps build empathy with the research subjects. Meanwhile both options are assailed by bias, either pre-programmed biases or confirmation bias in the researcher.
A photo of the cover of the Platformland book, sitting on a wooden desk.
Extract from an article ‘Of the 1 Percent, By the 1 Percent, For the 1 Percent’. Text reads: “Imagine what the world might look like if the rules were designed instead to encourage competition among countries for workers. Governments would compete in providing economic security, low taxes on ordinary wage earners, good education, and a clean environment - things workers care about.”