Hi there, I'm
Benny Aarup— I'm a

Lead UX / UI designer

I design and develop immersive web applications, for a growing client base of global brands

Design

My design approach adheres to a calm Nordic simplicity, pivoting around intense, friendly, and interconnected functionality.
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Experience


For the past 8 years I have worked remotely for companies across the world, from Los Angeles to Dubai and Tokyo

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Toptal

Lead UX/UI designer

Los Angeles, CA, USA • March 2015 - Current
Helped Fortune 500 Enterprise Clients and early-to-late stage startups design web applications and mobile apps.

Led the design process with client company’s product managers, CEOs, and founders.

Developed a Kanban dev hand-off framework connecting Figma design systems, through push/pull to Jira ticket design documentation.

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Near.com

Lead UX/UI designer

Los Angeles, CA, USA • October 2021 - October 2022
Led the design process of an instant place-based insights platform powered by Near.com’s 1.6B device data intelligence platform.

Created a nested web application component based Figma prototype covering 95% of all user interactions

Developed a Kanban dev hand off framework connecting Figma design systems, through push/pull to Jira ticket design documentation.

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Caliber

Lead UX/UI designer

New York, NY, USA • Remote • December 2019 - October 2021
Led the design process for a dashboard portal and mobile application for an online personal fitness coaching program.

Designed a component-based design system symbol library in Sketch and developed a responsive front-end framework.

Developed a responsive Low Fidelity front-end prototype to communicate the responsive framework to the front end team.

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Bridgestone

Lead UX/UI designer

Tokyo, Japan • Remote • January 2019 - December 2019
Led the design process for a responsive dashboard portal powered by Power BI with more than 140,000 users.

Designed a component-based design system symbol library in Sketch and developed a responsive front-end framework

Developed a responsive High Fidelity front-end prototype as part of the final dev hand off to the local front end team.

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Skanska

Lead UX/UI designer

Watford, UK • Remote • March 2018 - December 2018
Led the design process of a document management portal for the HS2 Railway construction consortium.

Designed a separate web application for a TIDP register and a dynamic contract relationship charts.

Designed a component-based design system symbol library in Sketch

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Dubai EXPO 2020

Lead UX/UI designer

Dubai, UAE • Remote • November 2017 - March 2018
Led the design process for an import permit dashboard for Dubai EXPO 2020.

Created a UX management framework including Gantt Charts, heuristic principles, and risk assessment.

Designed a component-based design system symbol library in Sketch

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EBSCO

Senior UX/UI designer

Ipswich, MA, USA • Remote • October 2016 - November 2017
Led the comprehensive Sketch symbol library for the EBSCO-funded FOLIO.org — an open-source library services platform.

Designed and animated numerous UX animations using Principle - submitted to the projects online UX documentation.

Developed general app features for the SaaS platform

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MasterCard

Lead UX/UI designer

Singapore • Remote • June 2016 - October 2017
Translated business requirements into tangible mobile payment design solutions.

Presented the solutions to the MasterCard executive team to achieve funding approval during the annual regional meet up

Designed a component-based design system symbol library in Sketch

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RemoteJobs

Founder

Bangkok • Remote • June 2015 - June 2016
Designed and developed a remote jobs listing web application - site visitors from 170 countries - featured on Web Summit 2015.

Presented the solutions to the MasterCard executive team to achieve funding approval during the annual regional meet up

Designed a component-based design system symbol library in Sketch.

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DFJ

Lead UX/UI designer

Tel Aviv, Israel • Remote • March 2015 - June 2015
Designed and developed a landing page for one of the Israeli portfolio companies with more than 250M users.

Presented the solutions to the MasterCard executive team to achieve funding approval during the annual regional meet up

Designed a component-based design system symbol library in Sketch.

FAQ

I'm currently based in GMT+7. I am available to work in any overlap.

I am open to offers including equity, pending a thorough investor presentation.

I am working on a MacBook Pro 16inch, Apple M1 Max chip and an external 65inch Sony monitor

Since 2018, I have been exclusively working with Figma. Prior to that I was based in Sketch.

Yes - you can find my profile here