Summary
Ben Collis is a multidisciplinary design engineer and freelance UX designer with 11 years’ experience building consumer and climate-tech products from concept to market. He’s led end-to-end product design and supply-chain engineering at startups—running user research with hundreds of participants, shipping an App Store mobile app, and cutting hardware costs by over 60% through manufacturing and supplier optimisation. As co-founder of a modular green-wall startup he crowdfunded £140k in 30 days, and his portfolio spans dashboards, booking platforms and beauty marketplaces. Comfortable soldering and 3D-printing as well as crafting interfaces, he blends hands-on fabrication with rigorous UX research to solve physical-digital problems. Based in London with an MEng in Design Engineering from Imperial College, he thrives on ambitious, unsolved challenges that demand both engineering discipline and creative design.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Maths | Economics | Product Design, A* A* A, Maths | Economics | Product Design, A* A* A at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Design Engineering MEng | Dyson School, 1st Class Honours (Dean’s List), Design Engineering MEng | Dyson School, 1st Class Honours (Dean’s List) at Imperial College London
English, French, German