For the last 20 years, I’ve posted my work online. I’ve been designing professionally for ten years, working on a wide range of products and services. I’ve created social communication products for the elderly, redesigned the rental experience, and helped secure infrastructure for the Fortune 100 . For the last seven years, I’ve worked in the developer tool space, as a in Product, DevRel and UX roles.

My strengths lie within the intersection of business, community, design and product. I thrive as a generalist within the cracks. As my career has progressed, I’ve come back to review what it means to run and host my own little site. I hope to be sharing more thoughts on the space and expanding my portfolio of events so I can better reach more interesting people to work with.

I’m currently Director of Product at Teleport. I was previosuly a Lead UX Designer at Solarwinds. Before I was a Product Manager at Rackspace working on RedisToGo and Airbrake.io

A 2008 graduate product designer from Middlesex University. This small site was dedicated to my design work, and design process. In hindsight, some projec

Why did you make benarent.co.uk?

Founded in 2006 as my small piece of the Internet. It has been a place to share my design process, portfolio blog and ideas. Projects have been featured on Engadget, BusinessWeek

You can read my blog.

Where would you like to be in 5 years?

I’ve come back to revisit this question 5 years into the future. My past 5 years I’ve not updated my site. I’m looking forward to sharing my experience of co-founding a company, moving the San Francisco and getting acquired by Rackspace. I’m excited for the next 5 years.