Ben Lee is a Senior Product Designer helping teams collaborate across disciplines to drive design.

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My career began as a web designer and developer, working in small agencies, wearing many hats, and pushing work forward.
For the past 12 years, I have been working in multi-disciplinary teams as a designer, integrating into product and dev teams.
Outside of UX and Design, I enjoy walking, cooking, playing guitar, and making music.
Product Design
Community Banking | 2024 - 2026
UX Design
UI Design
UX Strategy
Design System Mgmt
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Delivered designs for multiple workflows as part of a 7 member team of designers, researchers, and an engagement lead.
Tasked with modernizing legacy designs and accelerating the delivery of screens for several areas of focus.
Established discovery, research, and design process to deliver designs to engineering teams.
Product Design
Integrated Security System | 2024 - 2026
UX Design
UI Design
UX Strategy
Design System Mgmt
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Delivered designs for multiple workflows as part of a 9 member team of designers, researchers, and an engagement lead.
Our team led the design and strategy for an MVP flagship product experience, unifying various legacy experiences.
Users ranged from B2C small businesses and large enterprises to B2B Value Added Resellers and Dealers/Partners.
Digital Modernization
Investment Management Company | 2021 - 2023
client Mgmt
Design Ops
UX Strategy
Design Direction
Embedded into various workstreams, tasked with setting up and integrating UX teams within agile engineering groups.
Collaborated across product, research, design, content, and engineering teams to define and modernize designs.
Provided UX strategy and design direction across workstreams for retail investors and wealth management users.
Northstar Vision
Insurance & Annuity Company | 2020
Design Direction
Prototyping
UX Design
UI Design
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Northstar vision concept guiding financial advisors applying for insurance and annuity products for their clients.
Advisors were frustrated with the existing application workflow and were overwhelming Relationship Managers with calls.
Created improved UX workflows and testing prototypes based on design drivers established by our research team.
AI Driven Design Workflow
Self-Directed Exploration | 2026
CLaude / VS Code
Storybook
Mobbin MCP
Figma MCP
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Conducted a self-directed exploration of using AI tools to accelerate and enhance the design process.
Established a coded component library matching a Figma design library to create coded prototypes through Claude.
Explored ways of automating the ideation process through the use of Mobbin and Claude Code.
Clients