Matthew Riches Studio | Future Product and Interface Consultancy
Future product and interface consultancy for companies building AI-native products, emerging interfaces, wearables, spatial experiences and intelligent systems.
I help companies turn vague innovation into protoypes, stratergy, interfaces and leadership alignment, making futuristic ideas usable, trustworthy and commerically credible.
Future technology design consultancy • AI • emerging interfaces • spatial computing • wearables
safety-critical UX • product innovation
Selected product work and shipped technology experience.
Most companies do not fail at innovation because they lack technology or talent. They fail because the product experience, the human value and the organisational story never become clear enough to act on.
My work sits between product strategy, invention, interface design, prototyping and leadership alignment. I help teams move from possibility to product direction: what should exist, why it matters, how it should feel, and what needs to be true for people to trust it.
I have industry connections that can serve as partners, so matter your industry and sector, a trusted voice can be in the room.
Consultancy Services
Future Product Strategy Sprint
For ambiguous, high-value product decisions
For leadership teams, founders and product groups deciding what to build next with AI, agents, spatial computing, wearables, robotics, connected devices or new interaction models.
The output is a sharper product direction: opportunity territories, user value, strategic risks, experience principles, concept routes and a clear story that can be shared with teams, executives, investors or partners.
This is useful when the technology is promising but the product shape is still unclear.
AI & Agentic Experience Design
For AI products that need trust, clarity and usefulness
For teams adding AI to an existing product, building an AI-native experience, or trying to make automation feel understandable rather than arbitrary.
I help define the interaction model: what the system should do, when it should act, when it should ask, how it should show confidence, how users stay in control, and how the experience avoids becoming another generic chat box.
Typical outputs include experience principles, key journeys, behaviour models, interface concepts, prototype flows and an executive readout.
Emerging Interface Prototype Lab
For ideas that need to be made tangible
For organisations exploring new forms of interaction: spatial interfaces, wearables, smart home devices, robotics, sensors, multimodal AI, tactile displays or systems that do not fit neatly into app-first thinking.
The aim is to turn speculative technology into something stakeholders can understand, test and discuss. That may be a clickable prototype, a product narrative, a visual concept, an interaction model, a demo script, or a technical direction for further exploration.
Fractional Design & Innovation Leadership
For teams that need senior direction without a permanent hire
For companies that need senior product design leadership, innovation direction, design critique, team mentoring or a stronger bridge between design, research, product, engineering and executives.
This can take the form of advisory days, design reviews, team rituals, roadmap input, hiring support, product critique, stakeholder alignment or ongoing fractional leadership.
It is particularly useful when the design team is capable, but the product challenge is unusually complex or future-facing.
How engagements work
Small, senior, practical and outcome-led
Diagnose the real product problem
We start by understanding the business goal, technology constraints, user need, decision pressure and organisational context. The aim is to make sure the work solves the actual problem, not the first version of the brief.
Make the future concrete
Through product thinking, interface design, sketches, prototypes, technical assumptions and narrative, the work becomes visible enough to evaluate. The goal is not just to imagine possibilities, but to make them discussable and testable.
Leave the team with momentum
Engagements end with usable artefacts: principles, concepts, prototypes, product narratives, risks, next-step recommendations and a clearer internal language for what the team is and will be building.
Relevant Experience
Huawei R&D Innovation Lab
AI · HMI · Robotics · Future Interfaces
Built and led a London innovation laboratory focused on the future of consumer technology, intelligent systems and human-machine interaction.
Apple Vision & visionOS
Spatial Computing · Interface Design
Contributed to early interface concepts, spatial interaction thinking and industrial design directions for Apple Vision Pro.
Safety, Health & Accessibility
Trust · Inclusion · High-Stakes UX
Designed and influenced product experiences where clarity, trust, accessibility and real-world consequences mattered deeply.
Typical client situations
AI without a product shape
You have models, data or automation capability, but the user experience is unclear, generic, risky or difficult to explain.
Technology looking for value
You have promising research, hardware, sensors or platform capability and need to identify credible product opportunities.
A complex idea that needs alignment
Stakeholders can see the potential, but the concept needs a clearer story, prototype, interface model or decision framework.
A team needing senior direction
Your team is moving quickly but would benefit from experienced design leadership, critique, mentoring or product strategy input.
What people say
Via LinkedIn ↗Matthew sets the standard for what an innovation leader should be. With his extensive big-tech background and having founded several successful startups, Matthew pairs an incredible instinct for industry trends with the rare ability to clearly articulate a vision to both stakeholders and team members.
Gonzalo Morales
Huawei
June 2026
Matthew has a remarkable ability to identify emerging trends in AI software, hardware, and human–machine interaction, and consistently brings forward-looking insights that inspire the entire team.
Weidi Zheng
Huawei
June 2026
Matthew is an amazing designer, always bringing new concepts and ideas, always challenging the status quo and approaching things from new perspectives. He can also code and has built amazing prototypes harnessing the power of generative AI.
Guillaume Privat
Apple
October 2024
Matthew possesses a remarkable ability to transform complex ideas into user-friendly and visually stunning designs. On top of that, he has the ability to take his own designs into working prototypes thanks to his software development skills.
Marco Dinacci
Apple
September 2023
Consultancy enquiries
Let’s talk about what you’re building
Best suited to companies working on ambitious products where the interface, product strategy or human value is not yet obvious.
Matthew Riches, Future Product and Interface Consultant, London, United Kingdom.