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Design Evenings LDN: How Designers at Monzo Are Actually Using AI

During our evening with Heldiney Pereira, Susan Walsh, and Ben Strak from Monzo, they shared how designers were actually using AI in their day-to-day work, and explored how AI was reshaping the craft of design from experimentation to shipping.

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Jun 17, 2026

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Heldiney Pereira

Staff Product Designer
Susan Walsh

Lead Product Designer
Benjamin Strak

Staff Product Designer

"AI helps you bring things into the world that wouldn’t have been possible before."

-Ben Strak, Staff Product Designer at Monzo

Heldiney Pereira

Staff Product Designer

Heldiney Pereira is a Senior Lead Product Designer at Monzo, leading design for business banking subscriptions and helping simplify the experience of running a business for small business owners. Outside Monzo, he is co-founder and CEO of Flynt, a professional networking platform built on AI-driven matching. He speaks regularly across the UK (and occasionally Europe) on design, leadership and building things that matter.
Susan Walsh

Lead Product Designer

Susan Walsh is a Lead Product Designer at Monzo, leading Business Banking on Web. She specialises in information architecture and platform design, defining how complex financial workflows are structured and scaled. Her work has established the foundations for Monzo’s BB Web design system and interaction model, enabling teams to build consistently and independently.
Benjamin Strak

Staff Product Designer

Ben Strak is a Senior Lead Product Designer at Monzo currently working on AI-powered personalisation and product and feature discovery in the mobile app. He specialises in bringing clear direction to ambiguous problem spaces, and creating magical high-craft products that customers love.

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