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    Krati Gupta

    Product Designer at Atlassian

    • Graphic Design
    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Interface

    I lead subscription and payment user experience for India’s largest OTT. I strongly believe in marrying business goals with seamless user experience. As a Product Designer, I enjoy collaborating with the Product, Business, Research and Tech teams and solving problems together.

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    Nandini Suthar

    User Experience Lead at Salesforce

    • Design Systems
    • Interaction Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    With about10 years of experience in UX Design, I have worked for small design studios, as well as big enterprise companies. The products catered for Indian/global users in B2C, B2B / Supply chain domain, I believe in the philosophy, “Good design begins when you can empathise with the User well”

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    Rupesh Gajvee

    HOD, Course Coordinator and Associate Professor - Communication Design at MIT Institute of Design, Alandi

    • Branding & Identity
    • Graphic Design
    • Typography
    • User Centered Design

    Expert Inter-disciplinary faculty of Design at the MITID, Pune (Alandi Campus). His subject interests are in Communication Design, Interaction Design and Design Research. He has 15 years of industry experience and 7 years as an academician teaching at the university level for UG and PG. Commitment to helping university students develop their full potential in their design studies. Strong philosophy of teaching, and knowledge of many different methods to motivate students to develop their expertise in specific areas. Dedicated partner to university programs and outreach events that help promote learning and support the community.

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    Harshvardhan Upadhyay

    User Experience Designer at Microsoft

    • Design Thinking
    • Graphic Design
    • User Centered Design
    • User Research

    Hi, I am working as a Chief Designer in Samsung India. I am associated with design industry from last 8 years. Previously I was associated with Times of India Group, Cognizant & Thinking Threads Design Pvt Ltd. Working as a User Experience Designer I always kept myself involved in design education and have played the role of Design Mentor too. I am also associated with multiple design communities as well. I completed my Masters of Design from Department of Design , IIT Guwahati. I have been awarded with Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award 2013 for the Masters Thesis Project & iF Design Award 2020 for Tune Station (Samsung Smart TV App). My outlook towards design education is to democratise it for everyone - that's why I am mentoring many students & professionals via multiple design communities. My skill sets range from knowledge of System Design, User Centered Design Methodologies, Design Research, HCD & UX/UI Design Principles. Comprehensive understanding of design process from conceptualization to brainstorming to a meticulous eye for detail in final stages. I hold hands on experience on different design tools including Figma, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Balsamiq, Moqups, Microsoft Visio., XD. My work approach involved requirement gathering, research, design thinking, implementation and support. I love to travel in mountains while enjoying music. Cricket as a sport and astronomy makes me curious.

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    Seth Jenks

    Director of Design at Chia Project

    • 3D
    • Design Leadership
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I’ve been working as a designer and developer since 2008. I love product design and strategy. I believe that design is a tool for solving business problems. I love to read and to cook. I’m a huge fan of my four kids and my amazing wife.

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    Bravo Ariel-Sharon

    Community Manager at Embeddedd Hardwarew Communitry, Bauchi

    • Information Architecture
    • Interaction Design
    • User Experience
    • User Research

    As a UX Designer with 4 years of experience, I am dedicated to creating seamless and intuitive digital experiences that delight users and drive results. My expertise lies in user research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design. I believe that successful UX design requires a deep understanding of user needs, business goals, and emerging technologies. I am committed to collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to create user-centered solutions that solve complex problems.

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    Radka Newton

    Academic lead of Help to Grow Programme at Lancaster University Management School

    • Design Thinking
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Service Design
    • User Research

    I am an education service designer with experience in Higher Education sector. I am passionate about transforming education with design empowering educators to become innovators. I also teach design thinking and innovation in the context of entrepreneurship and management.

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    Agostina Gonzalez Banó

    Senior Product & Strategist Designer and Squad Leader for the design area at BASF

    • Career Advice
    • Design Process
    • Design Strategy
    • Design Thinking

    Hi! I am Agostina. Product Designer with more than + 9 years of experience. Currently I work as a Senior Product Designer and Squad leader for the design area for scientific software in RGQ for BASF (the world's largest company in the chemical industry). As a Product Designer I have worked in sectors such as Scientific (Multi-optimization of objectives, Agriculture, Catalysts, Project Management, Laboratories with AI), Banking, Insurance, AI, Data, Machine Learning, Property Valuation, IoT, Public Administration, Robots, Health, Education, Culture, Digital inclusion, Coworking, E-commerce, Accessibility and Tourism. In addition as a Lead Teacher in bootcamps. Among the clients for which I have worked, the following stand out: BASF, Ironhack, Geowox, YNS (RealSelf), Banco Santander, Bankia, MAPFRE, Museo Nacional del Prado, Yale Art Gallery, Thyssen, Balenciaga, Fundación Telefónica, University National of Cuyo, Ministry of Culture of Mendoza, INCAA, among others. I would like to be a mentor to help them with tips to get a job, prepare them for the technical interview and portfolio, professional career growth.

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    Jeremy Wheat

    UX Manager - PwC Digital at PwC

    • Art Direction
    • Sketch
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Jeremy has almost 2 decades of experience as a designer, problem solver, and collaborator. He approaches each project - whether large or small - as a chance to bring together a collaborative cooperative of professionals to provide the best final product. His team of experts includes photographers, designers, illustrators, development teams, writers, producers, videographers, app designers, and software engineers. He volunteers his time as an organizer and creative community connector at CreativeMornings/Seattle.

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    Emi Kleiner

    Senior Product Design Lead (UX/UI) at Kryon

    • Graphic Design
    • Industrial Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I’m a product designer with 7+ years of experience. Throughout my career, I’ve worked with different startups and with lots of great, fun, and some unusual people around the world. I'm passionate about problem-solving and complex challenges. I'm looking to learn new things every day. An experienced Product Designer (UX/UI). Throughout my career, I've worked with different startups and with lots of great, fun, and some unusual people around the world. I'm passionate about problem-solving and complex challenges. I'm looking to learn new things every day. I believe in the power of design to improve the human-centered experience in the technology-driven world. Due to my background as an industrial designer, I love exploring user experience in everyday life and the products that surround us. I love spending time with my family, Mentor designers, street art worldwide, and growing plants in my little balcony. An experienced Product Designer (UX/UI). Throughout my career, I've worked with different startups and with lots of great, fun, and some unusual people around the world. I'm passionate about problem-solving and complex challenges. I'm looking to learn new things every day. I believe in the power of design to improve the human-centered experience in the technology-driven world. Due to my background as an industrial designer, I love exploring user experience in everyday life and the products that surround us. I love spending time with my family, Mentor designers, street art worldwide, and growing plants in my little balcony.

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    Andrew Jordan

    Director, Product Design at Independent | Andrewjordan.org

    • Design Process
    • Design Thinking
    • Enterprise Design
    • Product Design

    Andrew is an accomplished UX strategy leader with deep experience in design thinking practices, 0-to-1 product development, and SaaS product design. He has worked across a wide range of industries—finance, travel, entertainment, healthcare, and climate-tech—and within different types of organizations, from startups to legacy companies and creative agencies. A career highlight was teaching design thinking at NYC’s Noble Desktop. Born and raised in Michigan, Andrew now resides in Nashville, TN after spending 12 exciting years in New York. You can find him hiking snow-capped mountains, blending the perfect superfood smoothies, and indulging in his love of music production.

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    Arindam Raha

    Senior Product Designer at heycar

    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Hey everyone!! New to design? Don't worry, it's all about persistence. My whole journey into this career started on a belief and compassion towards this domain in design. Signing up myself here as a mentor, to be a helping hand which I didn't get while I was starting from scratch. A quintessential INFJ, I have an eccentric perspective of looking at things and people. Design, for me, is omnipresent. I design to bring value to the users; interaction and emotion are some of the keywords that inspire me to innovate. Keeping Product thinking, UX, Visual/UI Design, Voice UI, Branding, Create Digital Content, and Aerial Photography as my key aptitude, my final goal is to create meaningful experiences that are emotive, sustainable, and engaging brands. All helping to improve response, drive sales and boost profitability. Believe in KPI-driven results. Interested in e-commerce, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, voice-enabled solutions. I believe in delivering quality over quantity. Asserting the challenges of creativity through research and delivering an impactful solution based on the overall user & its holistic experience is the motto I govern my projects with.

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    Dakota Chichester

    Senior Associate Creative Director at Boston University

    • Creative Direction
    • Illustration
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I'm a creative director at BU, helping to lead our interactive design team working on a wide range of digital products.

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    Parithimal Saravanan

    Senior UX Consultant at https://www.wipro.com/

    • Design Leadership
    • Development
    • User Research

    8+ years in design leadership and team management role. 5+ years in middle east consulting. Managed an enormous variety of client projects and internal initiatives, including defining product roadmaps, structuring deliverables, and identifying opportunities with existing clients. Extensive contribution to the preparation of RFPs, and proactive proposals, as well as internal operational initiatives and thought leadership. Interacted directly with clients to gather requirements, identify user pain points, and deliver customized and persuasive solutions. Utilizes data and user research to inform design decisions and advocates on behalf of the customer’s best interest for new and updated features. Synthesizes feedback from peers, business partners and customers with an informed point of view when advocating for the best solution. Presents and communicates concepts, designs, and prototypes to cross-functional partners. Self-directed and effectively managed multiple concurrent projects and consistently met delivery deadlines. Mentoring junior designers, reviewing their work, ensuring design consistency and best practices across all projects, contributing to the development of design guidelines and best practices.

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    Justin Evans

    Head of User Experience & Design at Ozow

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Strategy
    • Product Management
    • User Experience

    Early in my career as an Interior Architect, I quickly discovered my passion for creating positive experiences for people. It began when my 9 to 5 was all about creating great 3D experiences for people. Specialising in corporate, retail & exhibition spaces, my goal was to design ergonomic experiences that optimise the use of space to positively impact people. Driven by my passion, I quickly moved into the digital space, wanting to gain a better understanding of digital experiences & how to effectively design spaces. From this, a fire for creating digital solutions for people was ignited. Not able to contain my excitement, I began learning about User Experience, and quickly found that this was my calling. Using my knowledge of creating 3D experiences & applying it in a digital space, I began ideating solutions to problems that people have & using technology as a platform to achieve it. Through my early years of experience, I came to learn that failure is a strength in this industry because everytime we fail, our knowledge evolves even more. To this day, my passion grows with each brand I partner with, excited to live in an age where we listen to people, empathise with their needs and their problems, helping to solve them and bettering their lives. I want to share my passion with the world and also if I can help to shape anyone in anyway, that would make my heart sing. My journey shows that you can start from anywhere and become anything you want to be.

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    Adebowale Adewale

    UX Academy Mentor at Designlab

    • Adobe
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I am a senior digital product/ux designer with more than seven years of experience in brand, web, mobile, and digital products. I participate in and lead all project areas, from primary and secondary research through ideation, design, prototyping, implementation, and commercialization. My mission is to solve challenging problems in a way that has a positive impact on consumers and businesses. My specialities: User Interface & User Experience Design, Prototyping and Testing, Front-end Development, Hiring, Design System & Operations, and Project Management. My Tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Webflow, Google Workspace, Notion, HTML, CSS, Full Story, Amplitude, JavaScript, and open to many more.

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    Rohan Pannalkar

    Head of Product Design at Taskmonk

    • Animation
    • Career Transitions
    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design

    Rohan graduated in Psychology, English and Journalism. His forte lies in User Experience achieved through a clear understanding of research-based principles of designing. He strongly advocates that design has the responsibility to create products that not only provide meaningful experiences but also aid in making earth-friendly choices. As a design veteran, Rohan believes in learning from fellow designers and contributing to the designers' community to help nurture upcoming designers (trained or untrained).

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    Ellen Connor

    Head of User Research at Workiva

    • Design Leadership
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I currently lead the Product Design & Experience organization at Buildium, a platform that helps property managers streamline core aspects of their business, from leasing to maintenance, and build stronger relationships with property owners, vendors, and residents. I have over 12 years experience building multidisciplinary User Experience teams and institutionalizing UX practice and processes in growing organizations. As a leader, my proudest accomplishments have been advancing business priorities through building happy, empowered, high-performing teams. Professional Profile: • Creator of compelling and functional experiences that balance customer and business needs • Builder and leader of customer-focused, results-oriented UX processes and teams • Experienced, skillful, creative facilitator, communicator, problem-solver, and collaborator • Expert understanding of user-centered design methods and application of user-centered philosophies and interaction design best practices

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    Deepshika Sakthivel

    Sr. Product Designer at Credo Health Services Pvt. Ltd.

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Sprint
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I am heading the design team at a Healthcare startup and have been in this industry for 5 years. I am a design mentor & consultant, apart from my full-time. I am usually involved in end-to-end product design, research, app & web UIs, spatial design, etc.

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    Galeel Bhasha Satthar

    Lead Consultant - UI Developer at Thoughtworks

    • Accessibility
    • Development
    • User Interface
    • Visual Design

    I am working as a lead front end engineer at ThoughtWorks. I have 15+ years of experience in front-end development with expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJs, ReactNative, jQuery, and DOM scripting. I am providing UI solution which is accessible, usable, standards-compliant and works across browsers by following the industry best practices. I have hands-on experience in building responsive web applications(RWD) using semantic coding, w3c standards, and accessibility support. I have 17+ years of experience in front-end development with expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJs, ReactNative, jQuery, and DOM scripting. I am providing UI solution which is accessible, usable, standards-compliant and works across browsers by following the industry best practices. I have hands-on experience in building responsive web applications(RWD) using semantic coding, w3c standards, and accessibility support. I am very much passionate about creating web design solutions that are both usable and assessable without compromising aesthetics. My general strengths include a positive attitude, professionalism, dedication and work ethic. I always believe in working as a team. Specialties: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Redux, ReactNative, Webpack, Angular, Jquery, Accessibility, Usability, TDD, W3C standards, Photoshop, Illustrator, Responsive Web Design

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    Mariah Muscato

    Director of Product at HubSpot

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Strategy
    • Illustration
    • Product Design

    Product and design leader with eight years experience working on product-led growth and freemium monetization. I specialize in crafting scalable buying experiences that have drove measurable business results for B2C and B2B companies. My strengths include product and design strategy, quantitative analysis, system design, org design, and experimentation design/practice.

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    Ankit Chauhan

    Product Designer at Bharti Airtel Limited

    • Design Leadership
    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I'm Ankit, a self-trained UI/UX designer from Gaziabad who cares about consumers and create immersive digital product experience. My primary responsibility is achieving the satisfaction and comfort of users by understanding users' perception and bringing it to reality. While planning, I use Design Thinking Process to conceptualize and create user-friendly UIs

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    Parham Yazdani

    Senior User Experience Designer at Tata Consultancy Services

    • Graphic Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • User Research

    Innovative UX/UI Designer with a history of facilitating end-to-end design that increases conversions and customer trust. Proven success applying empathy, customer research, usability testing, and user-focused design principles to complex problems. Self-motivated leader and mentor with a passion for creative solutions. Swift attention to detail and adaptable team player.

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    Ann Criqui

    Design Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    • Design Management
    • DesignOps
    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design

    Experienced, user-centric creative leader and Fortune 500 product designer with a demonstrated history of creative problem solving in various industries, including advertising, finance, and aerospace and defense

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    Junaid Ahmed

    Product Marketing at LambdaTest

    • Growth Marketing
    • Marketing Design
    • Product Management

    My professional experience of over 8 years has been quite exciting & dynamic, I have got the opportunity to run the marketing activities of an India Based MNC & than managing the marketing & communication team of one of India’s most prestigious business group. Currently, I am working as a Marketing Communication specialist at one of the leading startup in cross browser testing space. An enthusiastic & result oriented professional with hands on experience of all marketing & communication wing. At LambdaTest I am handling all day to day marketing communication activities including customer communication, public relation activities, managing affiliate program, strategic partnerships, finding new business development avenues etc. With Shriram Automall I was working as Deputy Manager Marketing I am responsible for the overall communication of the company & manage a team of young & motivated professionals. Coming up with new & innovative communication ideas & implementing them successfully is one of the key accomplishments. As Sr. Exec Marketing with Stellar Information Technology Pvt. Ltd. I was responsible for carrying out the day to day marketing activities of the company smoothly that included the ATL, BTL & online marketing. As a member of a small team, the learning & implementation of new & innovative ideas attracted instant recognition. I am a Master’s Degree holder in Mass communication from Kurukshetra University. Skills – Marketing Communications, Corporate Communications, Content creating & Editing, Affiliate Marketing, Online Marketing, Public Relations, Strategic Partnerships, Brand Management, Events, Campaign Management, Advertising, Marketing Strategy, Media Planning, Social Media Marketing, Video Production, Content Marketing & Blogging.