I’m Rick Curran, a freelance web designer and developer based in Dundee, Scotland, with over 25 years of experience. My expertise lies in front-end and back-end development, particularly in creating custom WordPress themes and plugins.
My journey has spanned graphic design, fine art, video production, and web design and development. I am currently working as a freelance web development consultant, previously I was the founder of a small communication design company called [wideopenspace] and have worked in higher education.
I am married to Annie and have three children, Natalie, Gabriella and Timothy. Outside of work, I’m passionate about skateboarding, snowboarding, and mountain biking, and I also run a t-shirt brand called Life-Sized Clothing.
For more about me, read my About page.
Recent Blog Posts…
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Open/Close iOS app – now FREE
I released an update to the Open/Close iOS app to give it compatibility with the new iOS 26 and also to make it FREE.
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iPhone view of 2024
Here is my annual “iPhone view” video for 2024. All images were either taken directly with my iPhone, screenshot or copied onto it in 2024.
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The Nokia Design Archive
The Nokia Design Archive is a digital portal covering over 20 years of Nokia’s digital design history that has been pulled together and launched in January 2025 by Aalto University in Finland.
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The fourth quarter
When I was at art college one of my classmates did a film project where he got two of us to eat a whole chocolate cake each…
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What if I bought Apple stock instead?
This little tool is something I threw together after realising that it was 20 years since I bought my first iPod, it was a 40GB iPod…
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AI Bots: Disallow
I wrote a post recently “Should WordPress block AI bots by default?” with some thoughts about whether WordPress should be blocking AI bots…