Lloyd Richards

Interactive Things – Professional Interaction Engineer

Build interactive data products for public-sector and enterprise clients, working across frontend architecture, data, and UI with designers and researchers.

• Sole developer on the 1100+ page OECD Competitiveness Outlook Data Hub, recognized by the Swiss Viz Awards and German Design Award
• Defined responsive component behavior between supplied key screens, advocated for mobile-first layouts, and checked decisions against WCAG requirements
• Built a shared, themeable component library used across three OECD applications; advocated for design tokens and lint rules to keep overrides intentional
• Developed semantic-table-backed D3 charts for Switzerland's Cancer Monitoring Dashboard and mentored an intern through pairing and code review

Vatorex AG. – Data Visualization Specialist

Owned design and development of digital products for an IoT beekeeping platform serving 500 users and 10,000 connected hives.

• Built a cross-platform Flutter app to replace separate Swift and Kotlin apps, reducing feature delivery time from months to weeks
• Designed dashboards for beekeepers and internal research teams using daily sensor data
• Mentored a mobile developer while iterating on the app's UI and backend

Vatorex AG. – Data Visualization Intern

First design-focused hire. Audited the web, Swift, and Kotlin apps and created the company's first design system to bring their UI patterns together. Worked with developers to implement consistent components.

Interactive Things – Data Visualization Intern

Prototyped data interactions and developed visualizations for client-facing dashboards in collaboration with designers and engineers.

Lloyd Richards Design – Regenerative Garden Designer

Ran an independent ecological design practice. Managed 26 projects from client brief through design and construction, and created visual plans to explain multi-year work to clients.