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Service & UX designer · available June 2026

Designing services that make sustainability legible — for the people who actually use them.

Now
Erasmus at IADT Dublin · Arts Management & Photography
Studying
BA Sustainable Design Business, LAB Finland
Open to
6-month internship · service design, UX research, sustainable product
Reach me
zeps74@gmail.com · LinkedIn · CV (PDF)
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Selected work

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Täällä — local sustainability, legible at a glance

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.

Service design · UX research · Team project · 2024
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Body Electric — a live product, five years in

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.

Product design · Systems · Community · 2019—now
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The growing clutter in Earth's orbit

A single-frame information graphic built from 24,886 launch records, structured around the ASK–EXPLORE–DISTILL–TELL arc. Five integrated figures, black-and-white, A2.

Information design · Data visualisation · LAB Data Studio · 2025
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About

Portrait of Rihards Zeps 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.

Right now I'm on Erasmus at IADT in Dublin, adding 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 six-month internship starting June 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.