richardhargrave.comCurrently working in London, UK

Designing brands, products, and systems that work without me in the room

A designer who sets the standards and guardrails, then uses AI to make them accessible to everyone who needs them.

Rebuilding an onboarding flow to earn trust from underrepresented graduates

TipStartCo-founder · Design Lead2026
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Building a brand system a solo founder could run with an LLM and no designer

NexyoBrand Strategy · Lead Designer2026
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Designing OpenCharity to convert dormant public data into a donor's starting point

OpenCharityFounder · Design Engineer2025
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I’m a Designer with 10+ years across financial services, startups, and agency. I’ve led brand and product work for Royal London, Aon, and Edinburgh Fringe, and I’ve built things from scratch as a founder.

At LOOP I was the first design hire. I built the team to ten and led creative strategy across the agency’s largest accounts.

More recently, I’ve been building AI-augmented design workflows: using tools like Claude Code, MCP servers, and agentic systems to do the work of a small team with the taste and direction of one person. I’m not interested in AI as a gimmick. I’m interested in what happens when a senior designer treats it as a genuine production partner.