About Ben Gifford
I’ve been designing experiences for over 15 years, stumbling in to digital experiences by accident, as a dropout industrial designer working in marketing & advertising, placed on Microsoft accounts building web experiences for their annual developer conference. That was my first taste, and just the beginning.
I love figuring out how to impact the real world through technology, as a facilitator of our humanity, not a cul de sac separating us from it.
I come from a line of farmers and engineers, so am a systems-thinker and tool-builder to my core, and see the act of tinkering and building as ways of exploring and understanding our selves.
I’m a rower, build things out of wood, bake biscotti. I walk to think, and spend as much time as humanly possible with my family.
Pushing to the limit at the Husky Open
Thinking through my hands: designing and building a Rietveld chair
Conducting baked-good field research with a biscotti collaborator
What it’s like to work with Ben
“I hire you specifically because you’re not a pixel-pusher—I hire you for the way you think, and for the way you make sense of the problem space.”
“You’re able to jam on ideas, while staying strategic and also true to the impact on customers and numbers. IMHO, you run circles around some of the folks on the team.”