About me, Ben Gifford.

I’m an experienced product designer with a strong history in the digital industry, working with companies like T-Mobile, Amazon, Microsoft, and Classmates.com.

I’m known for my innovative, strategic, and collaborative design practice, and I’m particularly good at helping teams navigate ambiguous, complex spaces to find traction.

About me

I’ve been designing for over a decade, having gotten my start in the good (bad?) ol’ days of advertising and marketing, where Microsoft collateral made up 70% of every Seattle agency’s book. There, I got my first experience with digital experiences, and it was off to the races.

I studied industrial design. My grandfather was a civil engineer who built his own tools, and it’s from this cloth that I’m cut: an antenna always up for optimization, build a tool, test it, tweak it, integrate it, and see the world bettered.

What I do when I’m not designing

Outside my design profession, you’ll find me building things out of wood, rowing, baking (attempting to reproduce things I ate in other places from memory), running, discovering and exploring architecture and food, and above all, spending time with my young family.

I’m a sworn wayfarer, ambler, flanuer. This is where my best ideas and collaboration occurs: on foot, out in the world.