Our Mentors

Johnatan Uribe

Senior Product Designer at Okta, inc

• Accessibility
• Product Design
• Visual Design
• Wireframing

I've been designing products for big companies like Linkedin and Okta for the past 5 years. Before that, I worked for early-stage start-ups helping bring the founder's vision to life. My multidisciplinary background helps me cultivate engaging experiences for a variety of purposes and to think with a holistic approach. I always stay in tune with emerging technologies and actively foresee opportunities to innovate.

Milan Kodavala

Lead Product Designer at Jai Kisan

• Figma
• Product Design
• User Experience
• User Interface

👋 Hi there I'm Milan — Founder and Design Director at Vetti Design Studio, based in Ahmedabad, India. Over the past 12+ years, I've worked across UI/UX design, brand identity, and product design for B2B SaaS, AI products, FinTech, and e-commerce. My path into design was anything but conventional. I grew up in a small farming village near Gir Forest in Gujarat. I dropped out of an engineering diploma because I couldn't keep up with English classes, spent six months grazing cattle back home, and then moved to Ahmedabad at 17 to learn tailoring — working long hours in a small shop for three years. A friend introduced me to design in 2015, and my father scraped together ₹50,000 as a last chance. I walked into my first class without ever having used a computer. That background taught me something no design school could: how to figure things out when nobody is handing you a roadmap. I bring that same energy to mentoring. I don't believe in gatekeeping — if you're hungry to learn and willing to put in the work, your background doesn't define your ceiling. I'm here to help you navigate the messy, real parts of building a design career — whether that's learning to think in systems, landing your first product design role, building a portfolio that actually gets callbacks, or understanding how to position yourself in a competitive market.

Scott Carter

Member at Procurement Foundry

• Adobe
• Design Thinking
• Marketing Design
• User Experience

I provide strategic, "wow-we-did-that?" initiatives that help leaders, teams, & organizations enhance performance through design thinking stacked with improv techniques. Get ready to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. Half design facilitator. Half strategic advisor. Half improviser = 3 halves!! Every project has stories to tell—stories that will not only engage, inform and impact their audience, but that will also deliver on measurable business goals. I am that conduit between the C-Suite and the project teams. I help clients find the strategy and approach that best fits their unique identity, and then I implement and deliver top-level results that meets their objectives. Currently, I am the Head of Strategic Sourcing for Upstart. My specialties include strategic sourcing,design thinking, business strategy, user experience design, corporate development, change management, operations improvement, business development, source to pay and P2P transformations.

Aswin Ranganathan

Design Manager at Delivery Hero

• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• Product Design
• User Experience

I'm Aswin, designer and self-taught developer living in Singapore. I currently work with @Grab as a Senior Product Designer in Grab Financial Group. Previously I've worked with some popular startups like @Zeta & @Housing. I've designed at scale on both web and mobile but knowing React gives me an edge over web applications. Learning by doing everyday. Previously - Grab, Zeta.in, Housing.com

Shivangi Jaiswal

Senior UX Designer at CBRE

• Design Leadership
• Graphic Design
• Product Design
• Product Management

I am a User Experience & Interface. Currently I am pursuing clinical psychology, I love to guide and learn about Designing, Psychology, personal financial & environmental issues. I enjoy every aspect of my work, and I'm not afraid of Mondays. I work meticulously & always seek to improve myself. Managing, planning and budgeting are among my strongest abilities. My leadership, coordination and camaraderie skills are excellent. Hi there! I am a User Experience Designer at CBRE. As a UX designer, my primary goal is to decrypt the code of everyone's requirements, not just for the present but also for the future. Everyone on this planet should be considered as a part of every project because everyone is affected in some way, positive or negative. Prior to this, I worked for Tech Mahindra, Vendekin Technologies, and Tecture. My main interests are design, psychology, and personal finance.

Anna Trokan

Creative Director at Ampersand

• Art Direction
• Creative Direction
• Design Leadership
• Graphic Design

I am a newly appointed Creative Director looking to connect and learn from other creatives. I have 11 years of design, art direction, and brand strategy experience for clients of all shapes, sizes, and flavors. I'd love to connect with other CDs new in their role to learn more about making the transition from doing the work to growing the creative team. I love to develop creative solutions that effectively communicate your message, engage your audience, and help you stand out from the rest. I bring a diversified portfolio, mad illustration skills, strategic thinking, and a holistic approach to branding. Superpowers: Illustration, thinking creatively, focusing on details, clear communication, enthusiasm, branding & logo development, strategy, yoga

Kailash Dattkaya

• Career Advice
• User Centered Design
• User Experience
• User Interface

With over 20 years of industry experience, I focus on delivering sustainable enterprise user experience design strategies and product design solutions. At CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS), I lead transformative user-centric UX initiatives that align with the organization’s vision. My expertise lies in design strategy, product design, and people management, ensuring the development of cohesive and impactful user experiences. My professional journey reflects a dedication to building and mentoring high-performing UX teams, enabling collaborative environments and fostering design excellence. Passionate about accessibility and compliance, I emphasize accessibility adherence and unified design systems for web and mobile platforms. My mission is to empower organizations with scalable design solutions that drive meaningful outcomes for users.

Tim Colica

Senior User Experience Designer at Minderoo Foundation

• Design Thinking
• Service Design
• User Experience
• Visual Design

I’m a professional and creative UX / UI Engineer. Creative, passionate about simple, useful, and insightful design. For the past 15+ years helping business-building digital products. What drives me is common sense and helping people achieve their goals. I’m a professional and creative product UX/UI Designer, with over 27 years of experience in the IT world. My expertise ranges from consulting, stakeholder management, and user research to design, front-end development and user testing. My aim is to empathize with users, solve their problems, and design solutions in a the smarter way by following the User-Centered Design Process.

Ross Palmer

Creative Director at Kenfolk

• Branding & Identity
• Creative Direction
• User Experience

I’m a Creative Director from Sunderland with over two decades of design agency ecperience under my belt, building brands that actually mean something, not just flashy logos, but proper identities that people can believe in. Now heading up the creative at Kenfolk, I work with businesses big and small to cut through the waffle and get to the heart of what makes them tick. I've spent years shaping creative identities, creating campaigns with proper story and purpose. Over the years, I’ve grafted across sectors – local councils, colleges, start-ups, national names, always bringing clean sharp design, strong strategy, and a bit of real northern honesty. I don’t do buzzword bingo waffle or holistic synergy fluff. I do clear, confident, creative that lands well, looks the part, and gets results. If your brand needs straight-talking direction and ideas that actually work in the real world, let’s have a chat over a a pint or a coffee.

Florin Matei

Senior UI/UX Designer at TotalSoft

• Branding & Identity
• Figma
• Graphic Design
• User Interface

Hi, I am Florin. Graphic designer, UI/UX designer, husband and father. And i want to learn and share my knowlege with everybody. Acelasi pentru toti, diferit pentru fiecare.

Jonathan Steinberg

Americas Design Lead at IBM

• Branding & Identity
• User Experience
• User Interface
• User Testing

I have been around and around again. I love design and take time to explore each aspect that it offers. I have been a print designer laying out ads and copy at a newspaper to a product designer leading a team to build multi-million dollar projects. Whatever it is, I love it. With over 15 years experience in Visual, UX, and UI design, I come armed with a passion for great design and a strong willingness to seek answers and solve problems. The most important tool in my arsenal is the ability to evolve and grow. I take pride in developing unique and professional solutions with a wide variety of mediums. Contact me and join my network!

Tyler Berry

Staff Product Designer at Color

• Figma
• Graphic Design
• Interaction Design
• Product Design

I got my start as a UX writer, scraping by through cleverness behind a keyboard while learning design principles through independent study. I honed my product design skillset on early-stage startups before contributing on big brands. These days, I flex between product design and product strategy.

Ian Cox

Product Designer at Stir

• Design Leadership
• Graphic Design
• Motion Design
• Product Design

Passionate and versatile digital designer who enjoys solving hard problems and working with code. Focused on creating beautiful user centric products and experiences. Open to mentoring designers who are interested in digital product design, portfolio development, and career advice.

Roshan Ravi

Manager, UX at Ernst & Young

• Accessibility
• User Centered Design
• User Experience

I am a Designer with 18 years of experience in designing digital products. I started my career in Graphics and Web Design; got interested in Usability and Web Accessibility in the early 2000s, which grew into a passion and led me to discover User Experience and Human-Centered Design. I am a proponent of the User-Centric, Research-Based approach to problem solving and design. In recent years, I have been working in the roles of UX Strategy and Design-Leadership.

Chae Lee

Product Designer at NHS BSA

• Portfolio Review
• Product Design
• Service Design
• User Experience

Hi, I'm a product designer with a strong focus on UX with over 4 years of experience across diverse sectors and geographies, including tech startups, the UK public sector, B2C and B2B SaaS. I have expertise in End-to-End UX and Service Design by practice and training in SaaS domains from research to launch. I can help you with these: - Portfolio review - Service Design - CV review - General mentorship Feel free to reach out. I'd love to help as much as possible :) Looking forward to talking to you!

Jorge Moreno Arozqueta

Global Design Senior Director Kitchen & Laundry at Whirlpool Corporation

• Design Leadership
• Design Strategy
• Industrial Design
• Product Design

Strong ability to leverage global design strategies to the local market, understand global consumer needs, lead and manage high functioning teams, create brand differentiation strategies, and deliver excellent craftsmanship. My passion for working with various personalities has enabled me to be successful as a design thinker and business coach which has resulted in leading award-winning high-performing teams globally. Creative, results-oriented, collaborative, empathetic, and complex problem-solving professional with high interpersonal and communication skills.

Michael Dumaine

UX Design Engineer at Perspecta

• Interaction Design
• User Centered Design
• User Interface
• Visual Design

My name is Michael, I am currently a working professional in UX Design and Strategy for a company called Revenue River out of Denver Colorado. I began my career as an Industrial Designer and slowly evolved into ergonomics and human factor design, which inevitably evolved into User Experience design!

Rodrigo Manfredi

Head of Design at enjoei.com.br

• Design Leadership
• Design Process
• Product Design
• User Experience

Rodrigo Manfredi is a designer focused on understanding people's needs and business pains and create lasting and valuable solutions to concentrate on goals and profits. In 20 years of experience, he has always explored his passion for digital & product design. He is a versatile and creative professional who always seeks to deliver human-centered design solutions across a range of connected devices throughout an entire customer journey focused on creating delightful experiences and processes to increase sales and brand awareness. Throughout his career, Manfredi has had worked in the largest advertising agencies and retail players in Brazil, which has led him to develop a vision that combines strategy, creativity, and design to grow the business.

Parithimal Saravanan

Senior UX Consultant at Wipro Digital

• Information Architecture
• User Experience
• User Interface

As a hands-on individual who isn’t afraid of a pen and paper, I work through the full UX lifecycle from research to design and testing utilizing all elements of a user-centered design process to create innovative cross-platform experiences.

Tim Frame

Graphic Designer at TIM FRAME DESIGN

• Adobe
• Branding & Identity
• Design Thinking
• Graphic Design

20+ years of experience in graphic design and visual communications. A broad range of experience includes the design of corporate identity systems, retail graphic programs, environmental graphics, as well as advertising, packaging and publication design. This experience includes developing the brand identities and visual communications for local, regional, national and international clients.

Ritesh Malik

Head of Design, Sr. Manager at SPACEWOOD Furnishers, India

• Industrial Design
• Product Design
• Product Development Process

Being an ‘Industrial Designer’ I enjoy stylish and innovative product ideas, my skills are crafted as a Product Designer from National Institute of design (NID) Ahmedabad and Industrial design from Pforzheim University, Germany. For over 15 years I have been involved in the design and development of products in different domains which include Consumer durable, Electronics, Retail display, Exhibition and Spatial design, Packaging design, Home & office furniture etc. My proficiency and skills leads me to develop creative concepts that refine the appearance, function and value of products and beneficial mechanical systems for the users and manufacturers. Currently, I lead a design team. I oversee a portfolio and manage the new product development process throughout its lifecycle, contributing to successful business growth as a design specialist for Home (Bedroom & Living Room), Office Desking and Door categories. I believe that being a creative designer is a responsibility to bring about impactful changes in the society by creating affordable, comfortable and indulging experience. It is a team work wherein highly creative ideas are seeded as an answer for a problem statement. So let’s, collaborate and co-create a wonderful future for us all! I look forward to work on new design collaborations let’s talk and discuss about the design, ideas, concepts, opportunities by connecting on LinkedIn or email malikrite@gmail.com

Devon Chey

Product Designer at Meta (Via Teksystems) at Meta

• Career Advice
• Portfolio Review
• Product Design

Hello! I'm Devon Chey, a Product Designer based out of NYC. I’m a problem solver who cares about crafting valuable, elegant, and effective digital experiences. I have experience working on desktop, mobile, and tablet alongside product managers, software developers, researchers, and other designers.

Stefanie Sexton

Director of Design at Cobalt

• Design Leadership
• Design Systems
• Product Design
• User Experience

I am a customer-focused product design leader with 14+ years of experience working to shape the way companies present their products and engage with their customers. I have designed and launched a broad mix of enterprise and consumer applications for various global brands, collaborating with product and engineering to create inclusive and accessible experiences. I lead amazing product design teams, and I thrive in situations that push my creativity.

Kim Molinelli

Innovation Designer at Code42

• Product Design
• User Experience
• User Research

I help companies create complex enterprise B2B solutions. I facilitate and ideate like a designer, strategize and prioritize like a product manager, and break problems down like an engineer. I grow nascent ideas by teasing out the details while not losing sight of the big picture. I thrive in collaborative, agile (and Agile) environments working with multidisciplinary teams. I run experiments and create prototypes to rapidly test and iterate on new concepts. I make data-driven decisions. My toolbox of techniques and tools is robust. I love adding new approaches and methodologies to it and teaching them to others. My development background helps me create great rapport with engineering teams. SKILLS: • Design Sprint Facilitation • Jobs To Be Done / Outcome-Driven Innovation • MVP Definition and Feature Prioritization • Customer Journey Mapping / User Story Mapping • Iterative Whiteboarding, Workflows, Wireframing, Prototyping • Information Architecture • Interaction Design • Qualitative and Quantitative User Research • Persona Development • UX Champion and Evangelist • Deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript • Axure, JIRA, Confluence, Adobe Suite, Pendo, Dovetail, Mindmeister, and many others

Ade-Lee Adebiyi

Lead Product Designer at SoPostSo

• Accessibility
• Product Design
• User Experience
• Workshop Facilitation

Hey there, I'm Ade-Lee – the Head of Design at SoPost and the founder of ‘make it pop’ – a design thinking card game that helps people improve their creative confidence through design thinking and serious play. I bring 10+ years of multi-disciplined B2B and freelancing experience spanning UX/UI design, digital marketing, omnichannel campaign management, brand development, product design & creative leadership positions. Importantly, I’m considered a personable and reliable leader with proven success in building, training, mentoring, and leading teams from the front. A seasoned public speaker and workshop host, I love to give talks on UX, email best design practices, and creative confidence.