About.

Ben is an experienced digital product designer specializing in web apps for early-stage startups. He’s worked to conceive, launch, and scale digital products in the artificial intelligence, fitness, human resources, e-commerce, financial, and nonprofit spaces.

Current —

  1. STEAMe, Senior Product Designer

    March 2024 – Present | Chicago, IL

Past —

  1. House of Ventures, Product Designer

    August 2023 – April 2024 | Remote

  2. Oxen AI, Product Designer

    September 2022 – April 2024 | Remote

  3. Resilia, Product Designer

    September 2022 – March 2024 | Remote

    Sole designer on a product team focused on fundraising solutions for nonprofits. Collaboratively prioritized and independently designed new features. Conducted customer discovery and usability testing. Led a design team in the creation of a new design system for the whole company.

  4. Share Ventures, Product Designer

    January 2022 – September 2022 | Remote

    Primary product designer for three startups: Spree (iOS e-commerce app), Instill (web-based B2B software), and Fyter (iOS fitness app). Led user research and testing conducted through interviews and usertesting.com. Worked on agile teams to prioritize design and engineering tasks based on stakeholder priorities and user feedback. Designed low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes using Figma. Designed and built scalable brand and component libraries in Figma. Led creation of marketing collateral and designed marketing website. Made investor decks in Keynote and Pitch.com.

  5. Share Ventures, Product Design Venture Fellow

    May 2021 – December 2021 | Remote

    Led design for an agile team updating the user experience of the entire Fyter app. Prototyped new user flows for Spree.

  6. Younger Days Agency, Co-Founder & Designer

    May 2021 – December 2021 | Remote

    Provided affordable digital marketing services such as website design, branding, and analytics to small businesses, startups, and local political campaigns.

  7. Levin + Riegner, Business Development Intern

    March 2021 – May 2021 | Remote

    Conducted research and analysis on prospective projects. Designed business development collateral.

  8. Lumen Technologies, UX Design Intern

    June 2020 – August 2020 | Remote

    Followed the human-centered design process to create and test a login page template and multifactor authentication process for CenturyLink’s Business and Government portals.

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