Benjamin F
Design Manager at British Gas
East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin F is a Design Manager with nine years of focused experience leading UX and design operations across British Gas and Centrica, currently heading the design team for British Gas Energy for businesses. He built and stewarded Nucleus, a codified, accessibility-first design system that enables consistent, inclusive experiences across brands. Comfortable scaling design practices, Benjamin has run Design Operations for 40+ designers across locations, improving collaboration, user-centered methods and team wellbeing. His background ranges from hands-on UX and front-end work to design systems leadership, rooted in a career that began in web and visual design and photography. Passionate about inclusive design and accessibility, he is pragmatic about tools and avoids vendor pitch conversations—preferring research-driven decisions. Based in East Hampshire, he combines a practitioner’s craft with systems thinking to deliver measurable improvements in user experience.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Gradué en techniques de la photographie Photography, Gradué en techniques de la photographie Photography at Haute Ecole Libre de Bruxelles (INRACI-Photographie)Certificat d'études secondaires supérieures (CESS) Economics, Certificat d'études secondaires supérieures (CESS) Economics at Athénée Royal de Nivelleseconomics Economics, economics Economics at Lycée Français de Barcelona
French, English, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch
Github Skills (14)
react8
sketch8
podcast6
reader5
vector5
accessibility5
wpf4
adobe4
windows4
ux-design4
microsoft3
screen-reader3
web-components2
nvda2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PtitBen/Playground
Sep 2023 - May 2024
Trying out Astro
Contributions:12 PRs, 56 pushes, 17 branches in 7 months
ConnectedHomes/centrica-ux
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
phpuser-experience
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