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Ben Cline

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Designosaur manager + creative director @stripe / previously co-founded @letsgorally

📍U.P. Michigan

https://t.co/XsRn5suJVQ

Joined March 2009

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Ben Cline

2 years

Building @letsgorally over the past 11 years has been one of my proudest accomplishments. I couldn’t have imagined a better way to continue our legacy than by joining forces with the talented teams at @stripe — I can't wait to see what we create together! 🎉🎉

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RALLY

2 years

Rally is joining Stripe! We’re thrilled to continue our journey w/ a company that shares our passion for stellar design & user obsession. Joining Stripe is the perfect next step — we’ll combine our creative energy to develop & scale great experiences for millions of businesses.

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Ben Cline

5 years

You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work. You are not your work.

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Ben Cline

7 years

Fascinating —

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Ben Cline

5 years

This just in: - Be a great individual contributor - Be a great manager - Have a life outside of work Pick 2.

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Ben Cline

5 years

Yea sex is great and all, but have you ever experienced your baby sleeping through the night without waking

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Ben Cline

5 years

Marie Kondo your product features.

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Ben Cline

6 years

No designer is “born” with good taste. It is gained through exposure, desire, and practice. Don’t let the haters think you can’t learn taste.

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Ben Cline

4 years

Sometimes I think about how easy we designers have it. In terms of what we get to spend our time doing and the salary we do it for. — Signed, former dock worker + forklift driver at FedEx Freight working 40 hrs a week @ $12 / hr

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Ben Cline

3 years

Everyone likes to reference @stripe as an example of great design. What I think is more interesting is that Stripe decided to invest in great design + brand over the long term—something I think many tech companies (startups) don’t think deeply enough about. (1/3)

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Ben Cline

3 years

8 px grids are over. 4 px grids are the new 8 px grids.

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Ben Cline

5 years

Shout out to the rad humans who made the new @letsgorally site 🚀 🚀 👏 @_luptak 👏 @nettymaza 👏 @qlodge 👏 @Jess_Pettet 👏 @britmoline 👏 @Clonk04 Despite having built many sites powered by a CMS for clients, this is our 1st CMS powered site for us

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Ben Cline

5 years

Saw a company I’ve admired for years post about an unpaid internship opportunity on Instagram. I couldn’t control myself and DM’d them and explained (nicely) why unpaid internships are unethical. 👴🏻

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Ben Cline

6 years

Many agencies are hiring. Not many of them allow you to live with this kind of access to mountains. Sure, you could sit in traffic on your way to Lake Tahoe for 3-9 hours on the weekends or you could drive roughly 30 minutes to get to these kind of places EVERY DAY.

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Ben Cline

7 years

The tech industry needs about 1000x more design minded engineers.

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Ben Cline

6 years

Visual designers who've never worked on complex, constrained problems outside of web / 5-10 page micro sites. UX designers who've only worked on complex constrained problems but have never cared or learned solid visual design taste and how it can elevate a UX. Design 2018 🤦‍♂️

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Ben Cline

4 years

Couple more snaps of the office renovation progress. It continues to be a labor of love. It will be worth it when it’s complete 🤞

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Ben Cline

6 years

Being a dad is just incredible. Been told so many times but it’s true that one doesn’t truly know till they experience it for themselves. So excited to hang out with this little dude more during paternity leave. Nico says hello 👋🏼

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Ben Cline

5 years

Designers are whiners.

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Ben Cline

7 years

Put a 💍 on @al3xestrada 🎉🥂

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Ben Cline

6 years

If someone tells you that you can’t do something—that should be a pretty strong indicator that you should go out, do it, and prove them wrong.

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Ben Cline

4 years

Rally is about to enter it’s 10th year in business! So much ❤️ + gratitude to all of our friends, colleagues, & clients past + present who have helped us along our journey. 2 personal take aways: Persistence & Optimism I’m excited for the next 10 years at @letsgorally 🎉

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Ben Cline

3 years

@justahl Yes. Unsolicited opinion FWIW 😬 — design systems are fantastic for optimizing building products within orgs. Terrible for up & coming designers to level up their visual design craft. Designing something from a blank canvas w/o a system or UI sticker sheet is a lost skill 😞

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Ben Cline

6 years

Excited to announce that Cottonwood Chalet is now available to book via @Airbnb 🎉

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Ben Cline

6 years

It’s exciting to see design communities starting to thrive in the medium sized cities where work, lifestyle, and cost of living are more balanced. The shift is gradual but it’s happening 🙌🏼

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Ben Cline

9 years

Hiring engineers who care about front-end craft, design, and motion is just as important as hiring great designers. #FORMSF14

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Ben Cline

7 years

Amazing:

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Ben Cline

5 years

I still get butterflies when I swing over to a dev’s desk and see something awesome getting cooked up. There is nothing like seeing a design come alive in development with the same care and craft that it went through during the design phase. Can’t wait to share.

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Ben Cline

2 years

First day @stripe ! Let's go!! 🤩

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Ben Cline

3 years

2020 has been a tough year for @letsgorally We will record our 1st loss since we began in 2011 Loss: between $12k - $64k Gross rev YOY: -39% 🤕 Despite hardship, very proud of this: • We didn’t do any layoffs ✅ • Everyone got a raise ✅ (except partners) • 2021 looks 🤩

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Ben Cline

8 months

The biggest misconception about hiring great designers is over indexing on their professional work portfolio. And under indexing or ignoring their personal taste and potential.

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Ben Cline

2 months

Friends, some tough news that I’ve debated whether or not to share publicly: I was very recently diagnosed with testicular cancer. Still pretty shaken over the reality of this truth. 2024 is going to be one helluva ride🎢

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Ben Cline

2 years

Feels like running a business for over 10 years has actually aged me 20 years. If you’re starting a business — plan on it taking a physical, mental, & emotional toll on you… …probably more than you think. Protect your well-being as much as you can ✌️

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Ben Cline

5 years

Too much process is the enemy of creativity and craft

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Ben Cline

4 years

Google Nest ID designers knocked it out of the park with the new thermostats 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Ben Cline

8 years

Design is easy. People are hard.

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Ben Cline

7 years

Unsolicited advice to folks trying to elevate their visual design game -> learn how to turn your UX brain off

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Ben Cline

3 years

I'm looking for more Senior Product Designers to work full-time on super rad systems within the Automotive space 🚗🏎️🚗 - System level thinker - Fantastic at both UX + Visual Design - Strong opinions, loosely held - Collaborative nature - Good human jobs @rallyinteractive .com

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Ben Cline

10 months

Figma Config was a blast but there’s nothing quite like coming home to these little dudes 🥺🥺🥺

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Ben Cline

4 years

Someone is about to be a big brother 👀 —— Also, for parents raising multiple kids with zero extended family living in the same state - pls send all the advice 😆🤪

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Ben Cline

2 years

End of an era @letsgorally fam!! Love y’all and I’ll never forget all the great memories we had ❤️

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Ben Cline

3 years

We’re hiring exceptional designers @letsgorally — jobs @rallyinteractive .com + Remote + Health & dental + Yearly personal spend budget + 4 weeks PTO + Bank Holidays + Week off for thanksgiving & Xmas / NYE + Free ski / board pass + 401k w/ 4% match + 3 mo paid parental leave

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Ben Cline

7 years

Another Friday. Another UX / Visual Design rant. Kthxbye. 💀

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Ben Cline

7 years

So excited about this — — @GlobeKit

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Ben Cline

6 years

Photoshop is still vastly superior to sketch for setting tonality, style, and general ART direction for an interface

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Ben Cline

3 years

Robinhood’s legal team RN

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Ben Cline

3 years

Product specific feedback is not an attack on the people that work on that product. ~ You are not your designs♥️

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Ben Cline

6 years

10.5 years ago people thought I was crazy for moving to SLC. No design scene. Not many bars or restaurants. Just the outdoors ⛰ 🌵 🎿 🚲 So cool to see so many amazing designers moving here lately. 🤗 🤗 🤗

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Ben Cline

7 years

Shipping higher quality products will happen when Engineering, Design & Product aren't segregated within a company.

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Ben Cline

4 years

Office reno update. The saga continues. Island countertop and the backsplash in the kitchen are now installed. So many little things left to fix and install.

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Ben Cline

6 years

7 years and counting at Rally... I cannot describe how grateful I am for getting to work with so many talented, passionate, and genuinely wonderful people over the years. Looking forward to an exciting 2018 🖤🖤🖤

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Ben Cline

7 years

Possible design direction for a new @letsgorally site in 2017? ( v1 concept )

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Ben Cline

6 years

We’re gonna be a family of 3 later this year! 😆😅 🎉 💩 ��️

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Ben Cline

2 years

An official, official listing. Buy our house! Open house is tomorrow evening and on Saturday. @alexestcline and I will miss it dearly 🥲😻!!

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Ben Cline

6 years

I want to see design that solves hard problems elegantly. I want to see design concepts that inspire beautiful craft and creativity. Not one or the other. The design community needs both 🖤

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Ben Cline

5 years

Nothing will make you appreciate how precious life is like watching someone you’ve loved your entire existence pass way. Life is short, friends. Savor the moments and memories. 🙏

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Ben Cline

5 years

Every single day is a gift. #grateful

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Ben Cline

7 years

Designing for iPhone X means black status bar all the time. Not embracing that notch, sorry.

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Ben Cline

4 years

Tuesday

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Ben Cline

1 year

Gap within design education at a university level: not enough focus on teaching taste. Too much focus on tooling. Get kids inspired on what good design is. Force them to mood board and analyze great designs for a semester—and all the reasons why those designs work well.

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Ben Cline

3 years

So this happened today 😭❤️

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Ben Cline

5 years

Design / Tech Twitter is terrible at listening to one another’s feelings and instead is dismissive and rationalizes the other view point into oblivion. Let’s all go to therapy. Have a great weekend.

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Ben Cline

5 years

You gotta give designers time to explore and play otherwise you will end up with something vanilla and devoid of soul.

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Ben Cline

1 year

Burberry reclaimed its Soul. Love to see it. What brand is next?

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Ben Cline

4 years

Future Rally office vibe encapsulated in one image. With more plants.

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Ben Cline

4 years

- Co-founded @letsgorally - Threatened w/ litigation - Apple Design Award - Married into toxic relationship - Bought out a co-founder - Divorced - Met love of my life @al3xestrada 😘 - Got an A-frame to Airbnb - Got house - Married Alex ❤️ - Birth of a beautiful lil boy 👦🏻🥰

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Ben Cline

4 years

Before kids, you hear about how hard toddlers are. I’m here to tell you reality is 2-3x more exhausting than you imagined. Wouldn’t change it for the world 🥰

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3 years

I'm on the lookout for a Sr / Lead Product Designer to work full-time on amazing systems within the Automative 🚗 space - System level thinker - Fantastic at both UX + Visual Design - Strong opinions, loosely held - Collaborative nature - Good human jobs @rallyinteractive .com

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Ben Cline

7 years

Want to get a visual leaning designer more invested in UX? Have them lead and / or watch user tests where users get confused over an icon.

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Ben Cline

3 years

Excited that @letsgorally just hired our first full-time remote designer. She is not on Twitter but happy to have her. Also stoked to formally embrace remote work culture going forward 🎉

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4 years

Like an absolute insane person, I needed the entire @letsgorally office lighting system on independent dimmer switches, including under-mount LEDs. Because MOOD.

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Ben Cline

4 years

All the flash devs (myself included) from the previous decade lived for building this kind of stuff. I miss this kind of playfulness and craft in development. 😭

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4 years

Imagine your designer bringing this up for implementation. Hot tears 😂😭

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Ben Cline

4 years

There are definitely days in the design / tech world where being 35 feels like 70.

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Ben Cline

3 years

I've been very fortunate to learn what gives me inner peace: 5-10 hours per week exercising in complete solitude in nature w/ nobody around and no headphones. I stumbled upon this realization early in my life, and it keeps bringing me more happiness the older I get. #grateful

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Ben Cline

4 years

Checking out the new windows in the new office with the little dude 👶🏻. We’re getting so close to being done with the renovation 🤪. Photos by @al3xestrada

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Ben Cline

5 years

Why don't we all go to therapy more often? It's honestly been the best way I've been able to cope through some of my more difficult work/life events. Does everyone see a therapist and just not say they do?

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Ben Cline

5 years

Back in the office today after 3 months of parental leave. Grateful to the @letsgorally team and our 3 month leave policy 🙏. Got another co-worker going on leave starting around April, excited for him and the bonding time with his future newborn.

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2 years

Our 10th @letsgorally holiday party is tonight 🎉🎉 11 years in business. Started in January, 2011. Also today, a pipe decided to burst & spew water through the interior & exterior of our foundation wall. Life happens 🙈🙈. Still gonna celebrate tonight w/ my Rally fam ❤️❤️❤️

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Ben Cline

7 years

Folks on Dribbble are a little surprised when given real feedback. Let's fix this. Give real feedback in a comment #feedbackthanks

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Ben Cline

4 months

Great Outcomes > Great Process As a former agency owner, I found it tricky to articulate our 'process' to new clients. Design is quirky. It’s not like manufacturing. You can't just replicate a process from one project and expect it to deliver a great outcome on another.

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Ben Cline

3 years

Can a tech company (startup) be successful without significant investment in design? Of course! But the next time you reference Stripe—please don’t pretend like Stripe’s brand and design didn’t cost a bloody fortune to build and maintain. Also, kudos to Stripe 👏🏻 (3/3)

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Ben Cline

4 years

First walk as a family of 4 🥰

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Ben Cline

7 years

GlobeKit is coming. Brought to you by @letsgorally — Inquiries —info @rallyinteractive .com

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Ben Cline

5 years

The role of design and design process within a large corporation is very challenging. ———— As well as managing design load per designer. Too much and one is spread far too thin across initiatives. Too little and one is bored and feels devalued.

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Ben Cline

3 years

A lot of things in life are over exaggerated. Sleep deprivation with a newborn is not one of those things.

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Ben Cline

7 years

If you ever wondered what the benefit package looks like within an @letsgorally employment offer letter:

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Ben Cline

3 years

Does anyone else DM themselves tweets they want to save and reference later or have I lost my marbles?

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Ben Cline

6 years

Life has other plans for my future and it doesn't involve building a house. Do you know anyone who might be interested in taking over these gorgeous plans for a custom modern home 10 minutes from SLC? 2.29 acre mountain lot. DM or email me at benjamin.j.cline @gmail .com

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Ben Cline

7 years

If collaboration between Design, Product, and Engineering teams is broken, a "better" design tool won't fix it.

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Ben Cline

4 years

One of my best friends died suddenly last night. Absolutely gutted. Hold your loved ones close. Life is short 💔💔💔

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Ben Cline

4 years

Lighting progress y’all. Pendants and up lighting in the main area are now on two independent dimmer switches. Gotta be able to set the mood appropriately 🕯

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Ben Cline

8 months

A modest team, free of ego, open and trusting, and highly collaborative, will take a project much further than a single talented individual or even a large team overflowing with talent.

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Ben Cline

2 years

I’m getting nostalgic over the design process in the 2000s — early 2010s.

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😂😂

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Ben Cline

7 years

Bump bump bump. We're looking for designers. Full-time in SLC. Who is itching to leave the Bay?

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RALLY

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We're hiring well rounded designers to work with fantastic partners! — jobs @rallyinteractive .com

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Ben Cline

3 years

We're hiring a full-time Design Director at @letsgorally - Strong opinions loosely held - Exp. leading teams to successful outcomes - Ability to juggle multiple projects w/ ease - Incredible eye for design - No ego - Team player - Loves being a mentor jobs @rallyinteractive .com

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Ben Cline

6 years

Choose the harder path. The uncomfortable path. The one that doesn’t come easy and fills you with doubt.

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Ben Cline

7 years

The label "Design Thinking" is merely the design community branding good ol' "Problem Solving"

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Ben Cline

7 years

Best portfolio design & development of 2017 + one of the most humble dudes I know. @narrowd

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Ben Cline

4 years

Finding hallways in the 🌲

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Ben Cline

5 years

I want to be very clear that I’m not trying to shame this company in any way so please be respectful. Here was my response to their stories about hiring an unpaid intern.

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Ben Cline

5 years

Have kid. Say goodbye to nice interior design and decor 👋🏼

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Ben Cline

7 years

Focus on typography, composition, and color palette (less is more) to improve your visual design.

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