About
Hi, I’m Ben.
I’m a Principal Product Designer in Brisbane, and I’ve been designing for 20 years.
I’ve been a creative for as long as I can remember. As a kid I painted, drew, wrote stories and made up my own games, and I never really stopped. That became graphic design in 2006 and years of national retail campaigns, then followed the work from print into digital products: a rebrand, an app, a cashback platform, and now the AI-native products I lead at Lendi Group.
What ties it all together is systems thinking. I love connecting product strategy, experience architecture, interaction design and AI, so that complex things feel simple and intuitive, for customers and for the people and agents working behind them.
I still believe good design tells a story. I advocate hard for the people using what we make, and I’m happiest in teams where design, product and engineering work it out together. These days that also means sharing what I’m learning: speaking at industry conferences and broker forums, running agent-building workshops and hackathons, and mentoring designers as AI reshapes the craft.

Recognition and education
- Winner, AI Innovator in Mortgage BrokingAustralian AI Awards2025
- Finalist, AI Rising Star of the Year (Enterprise)Australian AI Awards2025
- Graduate Diploma in UX and Web DesignBilly Blue College of Design · High Distinction2019 to 2020
- Diploma in Interactive Digital MediaSAE Institute2014 to 2015
- Diploma in Graphic DesignQANTM College2006 to 2007
Kind words
From letters supporting my nomination for AI Rising Star at the Australian AI Awards 2025.
“The rare ability to not only imagine the future of AI, but to bring it to life in ways that are bold, practical, and profoundly human.”
David HymanCEO, Lendi Group
“He is not an AI tourist. He is an AI leader.”
Alexander DanilowiczCEO and co-founder, Magic Patterns
“He truly puts the customer experience first, and has a deep intuition (through practice) for how LLMs behave.”
Isaiah GranetCEO, Bland AI
Off the clock
Photography is my other craft, and these are a few of my landscapes. I also cook for friends and play too many board games. It all comes back to designing experiences people enjoy.