Ben Foster

good morning! my name is ben and i'm a ui designer and frontend developer

My name is Ben Foster and I'm a UI designer and frontend developer based in Geelong, Australia. I specialise in building thoughtful and easy-to-use content creation interfaces.

I'm also a hobby woodworker and luthier building timber furniture and guitars.

Latest on the blog

Modern CSS superpowers

Modern CSS is incredible. It has come so far in the last 10 years and the toolbox has something I can reach for for nearly every tricky situation I come across these days. It’s a breath of fresh not having to think about hacky work-arounds. Here’s a list of features I think are critical when […]

November 20th, 2024

Recent blog posts

Keeping up in web development

The lh unit in CSS something that I originally read about a couple years ago, and at the time thought ‘I don’t see how that would be useful’. Earlier this year I had a UI problem to solve with alignment, and the lh was the perfect answer. I do this all the time, it’s not […]

November 19th, 2024

Interesting finds on the new ABC News website

This week the Australian broadcaster ABC released the new branding for their News broadcast graphics and News website. Whenever a site I’m familliar gets updated, the first thing I do is inspect it with the browser dev tools to see what technology and techniques they have used. I thought I’d write down some of the […]

August 21st, 2024

Overfit and Eigensolutions

Overfitting is a term used to describe building products or features that are far too specifc to a use case and don’t allow flexibilty for new or unexpected use cases. It doesn’t apply to all types of apps, but it’s particularly important for creative tools. I have been building creative tools for over 10 years […]

July 10th, 2024

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