Ben Edwards

Ben Edwards

Designer and Partner, Refactr LLC

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Current
  • Designer & Agile Consultant at Refactr
Past
  • Manager - Information and Visual Design at Lominger International
  • President and Chief Experience Officer at Hive Designs
  • Producer/Project Architect at Risdall Advertising

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Education
  • University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management
  • Mounds View High School
Connections
287 connections
Industry
Design
Websites

Ben Edwards’s Summary

I enjoy working with small teams developing highly interactive, powerful, yet simple web-based products and applications. In addition I enjoy designing websites and other interactive materials and love to stay active in the online design and development communities.

Ben Edwards’s Specialties:

Clean, simple design; information design; agile methodologies; blogging and related technologies; online media; hosted application design; online social networking; folksonomies


Ben Edwards’s Experience

  • Designer & Agile Consultant

    Refactr

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2006Present (1 year 11 months)

    I am a co-founder and chief designer of Refactr LLC, a rapid software development team looking to change the way software developers and software development projects are perceived. We are pragmatic in our technology choices, but currently prefer using the light-weight Java framework Grails to aid us in developing powerful applications quickly.


Additional Information

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Ben Edwards’s Groups:

Founder and co-organizer of minnēbar a design and technology (un) conference in the Twin Cities

Minnesota Rovers Outdoors Club, Theta Chi Fraternity, Social Capital Collective, Groovy Users of Minnesota

  •    Carlson School of Management member
  •    Design Thinking member
  •    LinkedMinnesota member

Ben Edwards’s Contact Settings

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  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
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