# Ben Suarez > Designer @ Meta Reality Labs Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/bensuarez ## Work Experience ### Designer & Prototyper @ Meta Jan 2025 – Present | Burlingame, CA • Designing and prototyping novel interactions for next-generation wearables • Prototyping AI-driven user experiences in connection with hardware • Advancing team capabilities in Origami Studio for hardware prototyping ### Product Design & Prototyping Consulting @ Ben Suarez Design Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area I help early-stage startups turn their ideas into market-ready products. Specializing in high-fidelity prototyping and rapid iteration, I partner with engineering teams to build, test, and refine experiences to help launch them to the world. Clients include: Fellow Products Particle News Ansa ### Product Designer @ Particle Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Fellow Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed the end-to-end experience for the Aiden Precision Coffee Maker, Fellow’s most advanced and connected product to date. - Led UI/UX design across the physical brewer interface - Created high-fidelity prototypes using Origami Studio to test and refine interactions - Temporarily stepped into project management for the firmware team to keep execution on track Currently designing another product for Fellow, planned for a future release (still under wraps). ### Design @ Ghost Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States After working with Ghost for a couple of months as a Designer in Residence (part of the Sutter Hill Ventures portfolio) I ended up joining the team full time. During my time at Ghost, I designed novel multi-modal HMI experiences for their self-driving car platform. A few key projects included: • Driving Simulator: Created an in-office simulator to safely test dangerous driving maneuvers, bypassing the need for early-stage test track trials which saved significant cost on track rentals and engineering resources. • Multi-Modal Experience Testing: Led on-track testing of a comprehensive driving experience, utilizing a real car to integrate display control, haptics, audio, and LEDs, (all prototyped in Origami Studio) demonstrating the system's effectiveness in high-speed scenarios. • Test-Track Tool: Helped build a tool to simplify setup, observation, and debugging for engineers on the test track, massively speeding up the testing process for track days. ### Designer in Residence @ Sutter Hill Ventures Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed for a range of SHV's portfolio companies at various stages from stealth to Series D. I also helped ideate and prototype internally incubated products to evaluate the validity of funding them as a proper company. ### Sr. Product Designer @ Lyft Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco My time at Lyft was split between the enterprise and driver app team. On Enterprise, I launched a pilot program for non-emergency medical transportation, handling the design for both driver and patient interfaces. On the Driver team, I was part of a small team that entirely redesigned the driver experience to accommodate potential major legislative changes (AB5). ### Sr. Product Designer @ Twitter Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area I worked on various aspects of live streaming, both for creation and consumption. As Periscope became more integrated into Twitter, my focus shifted to designing Video on Demand (VOD) and Live experiences within the Twitter app. ### Founding Designer @ RobinHealth Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area RobinHealth is an on-demand prescription delivery and consultation service based out of San Francisco. ### Sr. UI/UX Designer @ Transamerica Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Los Angeles ### Designer @ Transamerica Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 ### Designer @ NBCUniversal, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Developing branding and products for NBC Universal Television Consumer Products. ### Product Designer @ The Disney Store Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Worked on the checkout experience for the newly redesigned Disneystore.com. ### Graphic Designer @ Disney Consumer Products Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Glendale, Ca. Graphic Designer for Disney Consumer Products in the Internal Communications department. ## Education ### Graphic Design in Branding FIDM ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ben-suarez - Portfolio: https://bensuarez.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/bensuarez JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/bensuarez/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13