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.

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Simple tips to improve your UI design

The following are some tips I have found to be most impactful when either designing new, or cleaning up and modernising a user interface. These aren’t hard rules, I find that what ‘feels right’ can often better than sticking to rigid rules or systems, but these are a good guide. 1. Reduce borders The more […]

March 13th, 2024

Recent blog posts

Align icons vertically to the center of the first line of text

I ran into an issue while implementing customisable text sizes into a UI. I had a Callout component which consists of a box containing an icon and a block of text – a layout similar to this: This component was built a few years ago and designed so the icon perfectly centered on the first […]

January 25th, 2024

Simple, yet powerful

Simple, yet powerful. This is one of my guiding principles when designing and building a user-interface. Your app should be simple enough that your users can get started easily without much friction, but provide the ability for power-users to thrive. Simple Powerful You will need to find your balance of simple/powerful to empower all your […]

January 8th, 2024

Come for the features, stay for the details

I highly recommend watching this talk from Rasmus Andsersson. One quote that stood out to me that I think rings very true is “your users come for the features, but stay for the details”. You can have all the features in the world, but if they aren’t well thought out, lack attention to detail or […]

December 24th, 2023

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