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Ben Solo

UI Designer · Design Systems

Beirut, Lebanon ben.solo@example.com +961 555 214 78 bensolo.example.com

Profile

I design interface systems for fintech products, 8 years in. I built and maintain a component library that 40 engineers ship from every week, and every component in it meets WCAG AA. I keep a spreadsheet of every contrast ratio I have ever fixed. It is long.

Experience

Lead UI Designer

2021 – Present

Cedra Pay · Beirut

  • Built the Cedra design system from scratch: 96 components, 3 platforms, adopted by 40 engineers across 4 product squads.
  • Cut design-to-dev handoff time from 5 days to 1.5 by replacing redlines with tokenized specs and a shared Figma library.
  • Ran the AA accessibility audit for the payments app: 214 issues found, 214 closed within two release cycles.

Senior Product Designer

2019 – 2021

Manara Digital Bank · Beirut / remote

  • Redesigned onboarding for the retail banking app; completion rate rose from 61% to 84% over 6 months.
  • Shipped the shared iconography set (180 glyphs) used across both consumer apps and the internal admin console.

UI Designer

2016 – 2019

Fils & Co · Beirut

  • Designed dashboards and transaction flows for 2 fintech clients; both apps passed AA review on the first external audit.
  • Introduced a 4pt spacing scale that ended a two-year argument about padding.

Skills

Highlights

4Fintech apps shipped
40Engineers on the library
100%Components at AA

Education

BA, Graphic Design

Lebanese Academy of Arts · 2012 – 2016

Certificate, Accessible Interface Design

Open Design Institute (online) · 2020

Languages

Arabic
English
French