Ben Clemens is a design lead and player/coach with 15+ years crafting product and design strategy across zero-to-one launches and large-scale platform redesigns, currently building AI-powered education tools in Berkeley. He blends hands-on UI work (including React/TypeScript implementations) with team-building and mentoring, having grown design orgs and shipped consumer and clinical products that drove measurable engagement and revenue lifts. A practitioner of design systems and pattern-driven UX, he aligns design and engineering to create emotionally resonant, scalable experiences—recently focusing on AI-driven workflows and LLM-generated clinical narratives. He also teaches product design, bringing academic rigor and practical Figma/pattern pedagogy to teams. Unusually for a design leader, he pairs an MFA/fine arts background with deep product execution, which informs both creative vision and disciplined delivery.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MFA Art, MFA Art at Temple University
Bachelor of Arts - BA Fine/Studio Arts General, Bachelor of Arts - BA Fine/Studio Arts General at Antioch College
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