Ben Walsh ✦ Product Designer

Leading teams that design and build products

I lead product initiatives and build the design systems underneath. More than ten years of it, across ecom, fintech, edtech, and AI. The teams I’ve worked with keep asking me back.

Ben Walsh ✦ Product Designer

Leading teams that design and build products

I lead product initiatives and build the design systems underneath. More than ten years of it, across ecom, fintech, edtech, and AI. The teams I’ve worked with keep asking me back.

More impact

Work that never got a case study

Older projects, and the numbers they moved.

01

Current account switching

Rebuilt the switching journey so people could see what was happening to their money at every step.

thinkmoney

4x more customers switching

02

Finance applications that people finish

Found where applicants dropped out, then split the questions across screens. Splitting them added 11%, a conversational tone added 5%, and accessibility fixes added another 4%.

CarFinance 247

+20% completed applications

03

Accessibility built into the system

Surface and on-surface colour pairings at Pearson meant teams stopped shipping contrast failures. Then I built Perception, a Figma plugin that catches them before handover.

Figma Plugins

10,000+ installs

Testimonials

The job

What I actually do as a lead

What I actually do as a leader

Most of it isn’t drawing screens.

Prioritisation

Working out what’s worth building next, and saying no to the rest. I sit with product and engineering to size the work before anyone opens Figma.

Systems and governance

Owning the design system. Naming, tokens, contribution rules, and the boring maintenance that keeps it useful a year after launch.

Accessibility

Setting the standard and building it into the system so teams get it for free. Colour pairings, focus states, and the checks that run before handover.

Pairing with engineering

Sitting with developers while they build instead of throwing files over the wall. It’s how you deliver the right thing first time.

Mentoring

Regular one to ones with the designers I lead. Career stuff, tricky projects, and whatever they’re stuck on that they haven’t said out loud yet.

Adoption

A system nobody uses is a cost. I spend as much time on demos, docs, and coaching as I do on the components themselves.

Available now

I’m open to permanent roles and contracts

Twenty five minutes, no agenda. Roles, contract work, a second opinion on a design system, or something you haven’t quite worked out yet. And I’ll tell you straight if I’m not the right fit.

Available now

I’m open to permanent roles and contracts

Twenty five minutes, no agenda. Roles, contract work, a second opinion on a design system, or something you haven’t quite worked out yet. And I’ll tell you straight if I’m not the right fit.

Available now

© 2026 Benjamin Walsh. All rights reserved.

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Available now

© 2026 Benjamin Walsh. All rights reserved.

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Available now

© 2026 Benjamin Walsh. All rights reserved.

We use Microsoft Clarity to see how you use our website. This helps us improve our products and advertising. By using our site, you agree that we and Microsoft can collect and use this data. Our privacy statement has more details.