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Rik Williams

Senior Information Architect at Government Digital Service (GDS)

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Certified OOUX Strategist

#OpenForWork

User Research, Information Architecture, Inclusive Design

Wrangles complexity collaboratively into user-centred design

Sophia’s OOUX Summer School and Certification were stellar! Easily one of the best training investments you could make; especially if you want to make sense of a mess or synthesise research insights into a scalable and user-centred structure.

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Featured Resources

What is OOUX?
What is OOUX?

A collection of beautifully prepared slides from Rik's presentation to Sony PlayStation on what OOUX is, where it fits in information architecture practice, and how to execute it.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Noun Foraging with Rik Williams, Sophia Prater, and Robots
OOUX Happy Hour: Noun Foraging with Rik Williams, Sophia Prater, and Robots

In this month’s Happy Hour Sophia Prater (your host and chief evangelist for OOUX) will be introducing what noun foraging is, where it fits into the ORCA process, and some of the best places to go foraging. Next, Rik Williams, UX Architect and Certified OOUX Strategist, will introduce a software-based method to mine diverse content sources. Plus a fun design challenge!

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Benefits of OOUX
Benefits of OOUX

Certified OOUX Strategist, Rik Williams, has outlined 19 benefits of OOUX for the user-centred and mental model-based information architecture of data-rich products, services and systems. If you need ammunition for selling OOUX at your company, this article is a fantastic mine of stakeholder-whispering postulation.

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