What makes Ben particularly valuable is not just the quality of his output, but the example he sets through his ownership, collaboration, innovation, and willingness to share knowledge.

Whether building AI-enabled workflows, supporting teammates, or presenting to the broader organisation, Ben consistently demonstrates the qualities of a highly engaged and impactful team member.

Brian DeVerter

Senior Manager and Design Leader, Perforce

Summary

Product Designer with over seven years’ experience boosting sales for enterprise, winning new clients for agency and helping startups reach profitability. My AI workflows and systems won this year’s hackathon and are used across multiple product areas. I use research to make my decisions, speaking with real users face to face and across qualitative studies to make impactful design decisions and build intelligent workflows.

Experience

Product Designer

September 2025 to present

Perforce P4 DAM, P4 Plan, P4 Cloud and more.

  • Increased Product Sales: Rebuilt trial onboarding to eliminate setup friction so prospects could self-evaluate seamlessly, streamlining the sales process and generating a higher volume of pipeline opportunities.
  • Front-End Engineering: Leveraged Claude Code to build and ship production UI, boosting feature velocity by 25% with a leaner team and cutting feature-planning time in half.
  • AI Innovation & Leadership: Engineered custom Claude workflows to automate UI generation and design specifications. Won “Best Designed” at the 2026 company hackathon, scaled adoption across 5+ design groups, and earned a seat on the company’s high-level AI task group to shape AI workflows for a 20-person design organisation.
  • Product Ownership: Directed end-to-end product design across multiple product offerings, including software version control, digital asset management and creative project planning, while partnering with executive leadership to drive customer acquisition and retention.
  • UX & Navigation Overhaul: Eliminated friction points by redesigning information architecture and in-product navigation, replacing clunky user workarounds with seamless journeys that measurably improved user satisfaction.

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Product Designer

July 2024 to July 2025

Budibase Low-code platform for internal apps, automations and AI agents.

  • AI-Focused: Solved data-heavy UX challenges common in complex AI workflow systems, demonstrating the ability to independently design intuitive, AI-driven interfaces.
  • End-to-End Ownership: Spearheaded product direction and design for core features, helping Budibase advance toward profitability as an independent AI startup.
  • UX Transformation: Partnered with the Head of Design and Product to rebuild the core infrastructure for AI agents, successfully driving user complaints down from 25 per month to zero.
  • Streamlined Onboarding: Reduced onboarding friction from 20 steps to 3 to accelerate time-to-value, boosting trial conversions and driving the purchase of additional products and professional licenses.

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UX Designer

June 2021 to July 2024

DawsonAndrews Digital product design agency.

  • Major Client Success: Led research-driven redesigns of CityFibre’s B2B portal and homepage, doubling user satisfaction and increasing completed availability checks by 90%. This generated tens of thousands of pounds in additional revenue, securing a major new agency account and funding nine new hires, including two designers.
  • Team Leadership: Mentored junior and mid-level designers while scaling the team from two to six. I’m super proud to have supported designers who have since built thriving careers in the Belfast tech scene.
  • 0-to-1 Product Launch: Partnered with former rugby international star David Humphreys to design, brand, and launch SportsWork as a dedicated sporting jobs platform from scratch, successfully scaling it into an independent, profitable business.
  • Cross-Domain Expertise: Delivered impactful design solutions across diverse sectors, including startups, marketing platforms, e-commerce, news outlets, public sector services, enterprise software, public infrastructure, and sports.
  • Design Systems: Built complex design systems, tokens, and component libraries for CityFibre and GSMA. These systems improved development metrics, making the team a top performer across 10 service partners. Streamlined handovers reduced developer questions and cut design rework tickets from 15% to 5%.
  • Accessible Design: Adapted CityFibre’s vivid brand colours to meet AA contrast requirements and adjusted typography for readability across the website and portal.

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Contract Product Designer

August 2020 to May 2021

Contract design for startups, law firms and local businesses.

  • Partnered with local companies, including LoyalBe, alongside an Australian law firm and independent projects to broaden UX design expertise between full-time roles.

Service Designer

August 2019 to July 2020

Northern Ireland Civil Service Public sector digital services.

  • Secure Environments: Served as lead designer on confidential digital products utilised by the Police Service, the Department of Justice, and other public sector agencies.
  • Public-Facing Platforms: Designed digital recruitment and employment experiences deployed across towns and cities throughout Northern Ireland, positively impacting hundreds of recruiters across targeted services.
  • Recognition: Received a Departmental Head Award for outstanding work in digital service design.

Further experience and full career history are available on LinkedIn.

Skills

Product & UX Design: Product ownership, Interaction design, Design systems, Tokens, Typography, Visual hierarchy, Information architecture, Usability testing, Accessibility (WCAG AA), Systems thinking, Data-driven UX.

Front-end: Production code, Near-production prototypes, CSS, Tailwind CSS, HTML, Git, Component-driven development.

AI & Workflows: Cursor, Claude Code, Claude skills, MCP servers, Figma Make, Agentic workflows, Human-in-the-loop UI, Encoding design systems for AI, AI-assisted prototyping.

Tools: Figma, Maze, Jira, Local development environments.

Education

BDes (Hons) Interaction Design (First Class)

Ulster University · 2017 to 2021

Hobbies

Martial arts since 2007: BJJ purple belt, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu black belt, and Judo green belt. Also Warhammer 30k, the gym, fishkeeping, karting, travel, and dogs, especially fluffy ones.