# Matthew Riches

> Public portfolio for Matthew Riches, a London-based designer specialising in future technologies, innovation, AI, Apple products, video games, accessibility and sci-fi.

## Site

- Canonical URL: https://www.matthewriches.com/
- OpenGraph image: https://www.matthewriches.com/opengraph.jpg
- Contact: mailto:mail@matthewriches.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matthewriches
- vCard: https://www.matthewriches.com/matthew-riches.vcf

## Profile Summary

Matthew Riches is a designer with experience across product design, prototyping, innovation, AI/ML research, accessibility, video games and consumer technology. His work includes future-focused consumer product innovation at Huawei R&D, a decade across Apple teams, and earlier design, development and games work.

## Current Role

- Huawei R&D, 2025-present
- Leads an innovation laboratory focused on the far future of consumer technology.
- Areas include AI/ML, product design, innovation and exploratory consumer interfaces.

## Selected Apple Experience

- Apple Inc., 2015-2025
- Worked across seven teams on products and experiences reaching millions of people.
- Areas include Apple Intelligence, Siri, App Intents, Apple Vision / visionOS, safety features, accessibility, Voice Control, HomePod, MacBook Pro, Apple Watch Ultra, Screen Time, Xcode and prototyping.

## Independent Work

- TextSpaced: accessible browser-based sci-fi MMORPG, especially valued by blind players.
- Focus areas include accessible interaction design, text-first game systems and inclusive community-led product development.

## Earlier Experience

- VocalIQ
- KarmApp
- IGN / News Corporation
- The District
- No Fuss Reviews
- Electronic Arts
- BBC iPlayer
- PlayStation-related editorial and community projects
- Suffolk New College
- Microsoft Fix It
- AXA Insurance
- Freelancer QA
- Raveneye Computer Systems

## Best Pages And Files For AI Systems

- Main portfolio: https://www.matthewriches.com/
- Structured person metadata: embedded JSON-LD in the home page
- Human-readable site credits: https://www.matthewriches.com/humans.txt
- Bot/crawler guidance: https://www.matthewriches.com/bots.txt
- Standard crawler policy: https://www.matthewriches.com/robots.txt
- Sitemap: https://www.matthewriches.com/sitemap.xml

## Usage Notes

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