# Ben Graves

> Somewhere between design, product and code at Cogna

Location: United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/bengraves

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ Cogna
Jan 2023 – Present | London, England, United Kingdom
Founding Product Designer

### User Experience Engineer @ Five AI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom
- As part of the product design team, I collaborate with designers, product managers and engineers to design and prototype products to aid the development of autonomous vehicle stacks. I use code and data in the design process to bring ideas to life.
- Work closely with users to understand their workflow, needs and goals when using the Five platform.
- Collaborate with front-end engineers to deliver strong user experiences to customers
- Iteratively develop prototype React components using the Material design system, using Storybook to communicate designs to stakeholders and provide engineers with functional code for use in their design implementation.
- Join product teams to kick-start their product development through rapid prototyping sprints to explore possible product directions.
- Played a key role in developing the SaaS platform that lead to Five’s acquisition by Bosch in April 2022.

### Site Reliability Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Munich, Germany
- Explored the intersection of UX and Site Reliability Engineering, learning about the importance of measuring reliability as perceived by the user.
- Built a monitoring service that integrates with client-side code with the aim of automatically measuring user-perceived metrics to detect more quickly and prioritise weaknesses and failures affecting user experience.

### Design Technologist Intern @ Method
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | London, United Kingdom
- Investigated how data science could be used to aid the design process. Worked on early prototypes of a tool that generates insight-driven archetypes based on social media data.
- Ventured out of my comfort zone, working in a team designing and building a prototype of a personal food computer, a concept developed by MIT Media Lab, as part of the connected food project. Our final product was exhibited in the "AI: More than Human" Exhibition at the Barbican Centre.

### Software Development Engineer Intern, Frontend @ Amazon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Luxembourg
- Took on UX design and front end React development responsibilities of a vital system that is improving the efficiency of scheduling delivery trucks between Amazon warehouses through machine learning and automation.
- Created a flexible data dashboard framework to ease the process of creating dashboards and allow data to be monitored effectively through visualisations.

### Software Engineer Intern, Frontend @ BuzzFeed
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | London, United Kingdom
- Joined the BuzzFeed News team in the final weeks before the launch of buzzfeednews.com in July 2018
- Designed a new concept for an offline experience that provides a roundup of the latest news to allow readers to catch up when they lose connection.
- Developed a tool to allow writers across BuzzFeed brands to add customisable newsletter signup boxes anywhere in their posts working collaboratively with product designers and other engineers.

### Junior Software Developer @ GENEO
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Royal Leamington Spa

### Junior Software Developer Intern @ GENEO
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Royal Leamington Spa

### Software Development Work Experience @ Sky
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom

### Software Development Work Experience @ Capital One
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Nottingham, United Kingdom


## Education
### User Experience Lab - Short Course
Hyper Island

### Bachelor of Science - BSc in Human-Computer Interaction/Computer Science
University of Birmingham

### A-Levels in Computing, Maths, Spanish, Physics (AS)
West Bridgford School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ben-graves
- Portfolio: https://bengrav.es/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31