Rihards Zeps
Rihards Zeps
Service & UX designer · available September 2026
A four-person team concept service connecting Lahti families to local sustainable businesses. Pivoted from percentage scoring to a five-level smiley rating that residents could read at a glance and business owners could discuss without statistical literacy.
Founder, lead designer, and developer of a multiplayer creative platform on Roblox. End-to-end product design, observational research, and shipped systems – instrumented and iterated against a live audience since 2019.
Space is getting crowded, and almost nobody can see it. Built from 24,886 launch records into a single, legible frame, structured to take a non-technical viewer from a question to a conclusion in one read. Five integrated figures, black-and-white, A2.
A solo concept map surfacing affordable, authentic cultural spaces across Dublin for students. Built from a Typeform survey, synthesised through the Double Diamond, and designed around the psychology of Dublin's bus colours – moss green, bright yellow, no sharp edges.
Dublin · 2026
I work at the intersection of service design, UX research, and sustainability. The kind of design where the deliverable isn't just an interface – it's also the framework, the rating system, the journey, the way a stakeholder explains a thing to someone else without losing the meaning.
I recently completed an Erasmus year at IADT Dublin, where I added a cultural-industry lens to the methods I picked up at LAB Finland's Institute of Design. Before that, I spent five years building and operating a live product on Roblox – which taught me more about microcopy, friction, and what users actually do versus what they say than any course could.
I'm looking for a 5–6 month internship starting September 2026, ideally with a team working on circular-economy services, sustainable product development, or design-led digital tools at scale. Latvia is home; English, Latvian, Russian, and intermediate Finnish are working languages.