Designers & Machines
Live
A monthly demo dinner in San Francisco for designers exploring our relationship with machines
Side School
Live
Platform teaching professionals to adopt AI. Bootstrapped to thousands of students in 2024.
Supercreative
Acquired
Product studio building business apps for 50k+ freelancers. Started in 2020, acquired in 2023.
People to Notion
Acquired
Chrome extension to save LinkedIn profiles to Notion CRMs in a click. Designed in 2022.
Ephemeral Painting
Archived
A painting that continuously generates itself. Prototype and first sales in 2 week sprint.
Instaprice
Live
Pricing and quote machine for freelancers. Designed and built in 2022.
Notion Pack
Acquired
All the freelancers docs you need, as Notion templates. Six figure sales and users.
San Francisco
Ben Issen
Currently founding designer at Rox. Based in San Francisco, California.
I specialize in designing machines for creative and learning work.
Previously: first intern at Webflow, built a product studio (7 products were acquired), and launched Side School teaching AI tools.
"The world is a draft, design everything. Build your tools and craft, let joy in all sing." This is my motto.
French-American, I've been an entrepreneurial designer ever since I was 12: my father built companies and my mother designed. I followed their steps.
Béni means blessed in French.
Once a month, I share my latest work and findings on a curated newsletter (example). Let's keep in touch:
Designers & Machines
Live
A monthly demo dinner in San Francisco for designers exploring our relationship with machines
Side School
Live
Platform teaching professionals to adopt AI. Bootstrapped to thousands of students in 2024.
Supercreative
Acquired
Product studio building business apps for 50k+ freelancers. Started in 2020, acquired in 2023.
People to Notion
Acquired
Chrome extension to save LinkedIn profiles to Notion CRMs in a click. Designed in 2022.
Ephemeral Painting
Archived
A painting that continuously generates itself. Prototype and first sales in 2 week sprint.
Instaprice
Live
Pricing and quote machine for freelancers. Designed and built in 2022.
Notion Pack
Acquired
All the freelancers docs you need, as Notion templates. Six figure sales and users.
San Francisco
Ben Issen
Currently founding designer at Rox. Based in San Francisco, California.
I specialize in designing machines for creative and learning work.
Previously: first intern at Webflow, built a product studio (7 products were acquired), and launched Side School teaching AI tools.
"The world is a draft, design everything. Build your tools and craft, let joy in all sing." This is my motto.
French-American, I've been an entrepreneurial designer ever since I was 12: my father built companies and my mother designed. I followed their steps.
Béni means blessed in French.
Once a month, I share my latest work and findings on a curated newsletter (example). Let's keep in touch: