An enthusiasm by Richard Rutter

Hello. I’m Richard, a designer, author and speaker living by the sea in Brighton, UK. I’m co-founder of Clearleft, a digital design consultancy.

I love all things to do with human-centred design, typography, music and cycling. I occasionally write about them here.

Latest Posts

  • A modern approach to browser support

    Recently we realised Clearleft didn’t have a written browser support policy. Rather than fixating on specific browsers, we needed to a policy that considered capabilities and outcomes for users. It turns out there’s an initiative for that.

  • Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making

    It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. But all this time on, we’re still making the same mistakes.

  • Design does not mean innovation

    Design has nothing to do with innovation and little to do with creativity. For the most part it’s there to help de-risk your business, but we tend not to talk about it like that.

  • Retrofitting fluid typography

    As part of my forthcoming Patterns Day talk I decided to rebuild the newly redesigned Creative Boom article page using Utopian fluid typography to replace its multitude of breakpoints. This is the story of why and how.