Brad Richter
VP Of Design at Richter Design
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Richter is a veteran design leader with over 25 years of multi-disciplinary experience, currently serving as VP of Design at Brave and running his own studio, Richter Design. He combines product, UX, visual and industrial design expertise to solve hard problems and drive momentum across cross-functional teams, balancing end-user needs with business and sales realities. At Brave he helped build a privacy-forward browser and contributed front-end UI polish to the well-known Brave browser-laptop project, improving navigation, tabs and preferences for a more polished user experience. His background includes leading product and design through an acquisition at Luidia and shipping award-winning enterprise software at EFI, demonstrating skill in both startup and corporate environments. Known for sweating the details and inventing practical solutions, he pushes work well beyond 90% while valuing progress over paralysis. Based in California, he brings a pragmatic, truth-seeking approach that turns complex constraints into elegant, usable products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
css10
javascript10
browser10
ui-design10
electron9
html8
macos5
windows5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
brave/browser-laptop
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
[DEPRECATED] Please see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser for the current version of Brave
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 35 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brad primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Brave browser-laptop repository. Their contributions involved extensive styling and UI refinements, including adjustments to the navigation bar, tab appearance, and button styles. They also worked on improving the layout and visual presentation of various UI components like the preferences panel, new tab page, and context menus, using technologies like Less CSS. Their work led to a more polished and user-friendly interface for the Brave browser.
browserwindowsjavascriptbrave-browserlinux
brave/brave-website
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:27 PRs, 240 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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