David Richard
Founder CPO at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Richard is a business-minded design leader and founder with 12 years of product-focused experience and over 20 years crafting design practice and strategy across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise products. As Founder and CPO of BlossomAI he’s building an AI-guided relationship platform to make networking more intentional and less intimidating, while teaching design’s business value as an adjunct professor at UT Austin. Previously he led product design and research at Wheel and USAA, driving tokenized design systems and data-driven archetypes to streamline design-to-dev pipelines and personalize user experiences. He started and scaled Design For Use, bringing a rare mix of hands-on UX craft, organizational design, and go-to-market experience, and has repeatedly launched products from whiteboard to market in behavioral health and virtual care. Based in Austin, he combines academic rigor (MS in Architectural Studies, BS in Mechanical Engineering) with practical startup grit and a focus on measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MS Architectural Studies, MS Architectural Studies at The University of Texas at AustinBS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
figma2
amazon2
dictionary2
transform2
json2
design-tokens1
style-dictionary1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
arpdale/specify-tokens
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
arpdale/NTTData_Proto
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 7 months
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