Ben Crothers

DIGITAL DESIGN JUROR

Ben has been a designer, strategist and illustrator for about 30 years, and has worked on a broad range of products, services and campaigns to make people’s lives easier and businesses more sustainable in a wide variety of organisations.

Ben is ruthless in uncovering and framing the right problems to solve, and uses a lot of drawing and visualisation to help teams think better and solve those problems better, together. His proudest moments include redesigning the website for the Parliament of Australia (since changed), fundraising websites for the Leukaemia Foundation, and most recently a rebrand of a Victorian community legal service. Ben also designs playbooks and workshop methods to help teams work better together, and is one of the original creators of the much-loved Atlassian Team Playbook. 

Currently he heads up Bright Pilots (his visual facilitation consultancy) as Principal Facilitator. He is also the author of several books, including Presto Sketching and 50 Remote-Friendly Icebreakers, and leads creativity retreats with Inking Abroad.