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Neha Paranjpe
Design Strategist at Self Employed
- Branding & Identity
- Design Management
- Product Design
I am a 24-year-old designer from India, curious about finding answers to all the hows, whats and whys around me. I completed my graduation as a product designer from MIT Institute of Design in 2021 with a first class with distinction. Always fascinated by lifestyle products and interiors, post-graduation I worked at a luxury lighting firm named 'Arjun Rathi Design' in Mumbai. My work involved not only design but also led production and installation and assisted in studio management. Apart from this I also trained new joiners and that's where my spark for mentoring started. Today I often cater to calls like - 'I finished my graduation and I'm unable to land my first job' or 'I'm not seeing growth in this job. Should I quit?' I've dealt with these questions myself and I know it's not an easy journey. So I'm here to help you unlock your potential by sharing my experiences of how I cracked the code and got for 7 job positions after applying to over 50. (This list of 7 even includes my dream company 'Ikea'.) Currently working as a freelancer, I can mentor you to figure out the next design thing apt for your profile - be it an undergrad/master or a job switch or elevating your design profile.
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Pranava Tandra
Product Designer at Intercom
- Design Thinking
- Graphic Design
- User Centered Design
- User Interface
My name is Pranava (pra-na-va). I am a product designer working on omnichannel experiences for Intercom. Previously I was in the Microsoft Teams search team designing autosuggestions and SERP experiences. I like to design and build experiences that are intuitive, accessible, elegant, and fun. As an individual, I love telling stories and travelling. I also write stuff about design, read comics, and practice yoga when I'm not doodling. As a designer, I am deeply interested in processes that support scalable solutions. More than anything I love people and, I thrive in inclusive teams & collaborative environments. As a designer with ~5 years of experience, I've been fortunate enough to design for several products such as Intercom, Teams, Kaizala, Workplace Analytics, Viva, Excel, and Acrobat. I also like speaking and I also organize workshops as a Figma Advocate for FoF Hyderabad, doing my small part in helping the design community grow.
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Neha Parekh
Sr Manager, Experience Lead at Accenture Studio for Experience Design at Accenture AI
- Creative Direction
- Design Leadership
- User Experience
My work lies at the intersection of design and technology such that I leverage human-centered thinking mindset, my expertise in behaviour research & problem solving and collaborating with technologists to build scalable, economical & humanistic solutions. These could be services, products, experiences, innovation strategies & tools among others. Specialities: Behavioural Research Problem Articulation & Insights Generation Rapid Experimentation Experience Design Behavioural Design Design Strategy Service Design Strategic and Big Picture Thinking Integrated Experiences Client Interfacing Leadership
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Roy Vergara
Principal Product Designer at Dell Technologies
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
- Web Design
Exemplifies design leadership that increases the value of design in organizations with methodologies & principles to define problems & shape business outcomes. Would love to chat about UX Design, process, leadership, culture! Specialties: Design Leadership, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Strategic Innovation, Mobile/Web Design
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Alfa Zihal
Product Designer at POLYMARQ
- Accessibility
- User Experience
- User Interface
UX and UI Designer with experience in shipping products, working with engineers, and designing systems for interactive web and mobile experiences. With a love for accessibility and inclusivity in design, I’m passionate about the process of turning creative and innovative ideas into products for people, looking always for the simple and most outstanding solution
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Ali Hussain
SVP, User Experience & Product Design at American Specialty Health
- Career Advice
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- Design Thinking
A digital intrapreneur and design thinking evangelist with 20+ years of executive leadership experience at global enterprises like Citibank, Monster, and AOL. Ali is passionate about creating and maintaining a culture of trust, optimism, and progress. He has worked and built strategic partnerships with brands like Apple, IBM, Salesforce, Samsung, Facebook, and Microsoft to accelerate innovation. Ali is a recognized speaker at Fintech and Design industry events while serving as a Board member to advance human-centered innovation in San Diego. Specialties: Design Thinking, Culture & Org Design, Digital Transformation, Corporate Strategy, Design Leadership, UX Management, Product Management, Agile & SCRUM Methodology, Usability Testing, Iterative Design Strategy, Mobile & Wearable UX, NPS & VOC Measurement, Prototyping, Gestural & Voice Interfaces.
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Vikram DJ
Senior UX Design Architect at HCL Software
- Animation
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- User Experience
As a multi-disciplinary design leader with a proven experience in using human centric design, empathy and research to lead, fix and solve solutions. I am a constant learner to understand what is best for the user, the organization and the business.
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Aref Ahmadi Araghi
Product Designer at Happeo
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Instructional Design
- Product Design
Aref Araghi is a product designer & experience engineer I have 5 years of experience designing digital products. I have helped companies of all sizes create digital products and define their product strategies.
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Ben Patriquin
Senior VP, Creative Director at Canale Communications
- Branding & Identity
- Creative Direction
- Graphic Design
- Web Design
I oversee the growing creative department at CanaleComm, providing strategic and tactical direction to visual communications projects of all shapes and sizes.
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Varun Acharya
Senior Product Designer at Mobile Premier league (MPL)
- Design Critique
- Interaction Design
- Portfolio Review
- Wireframing
Hi, I am Varun Acharya, a product designer with more than three years of professional experience. I have worked for companies such as MPL, Blackbuck and Vahak. I would like to teach newcomers the realistic approach of designing a product, as I myself have seen students confused about taking a boot camp course or not, which is quite expensive and not valuable.
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Alex Smith
Product Designer at HubSpot
- Graphic Design
- Sketch
- Typography
- User Research
Born and raised in New England. Fan of everything snow-related. Love dogs, especially my german shepherd, Maverick! Transitioned from a more traditional visual design background into UX design and research. Love to help people grow however I can!
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Nuwan Withanage
Senior UX Designer at Spryker
- Career Advice
- Design Leadership
- Diversity & Inclusion
- User Research
I'm a self-starter who likes to take on complex challenges. I focus on the holistic view of product design. I'm passionate about working with tech, financial and lifestyle products. I love to share my experience and what to expect from early-stage & scaling startups to enterprise companies. I can give UX career advice, job search tips and portfolio reviews.
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Santhosh A
UX Designer at Intellemo AdTech Pvt Ltd
- Adobe
- Career Advice
- Figma
- User Experience
Experienced UX Designer with a track record of delivering exceptional designs, I blend a passion for excellence with over 3 years of professional expertise. Alongside my role, I've spent 1.5 years mentoring and inspiring 25+ students, showcasing my commitment to community growth. Adept at leading design teams and collaborating with clients, my natural leadership fosters motivation and optimal team performance. Technically skilled in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, I bring a holistic approach to UX design. As a mentor, I'm dedicated to teaching with excellence, integrating the latest trends like AI into real-world problem-solving. Ready to contribute my skills and mentorship experience to the next-gen creator. Join me and let's have a fun ride together!
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Katarina Loughlin
Strategic Advisor to the Head of International at Audible
- Career Advice
- Interaction Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
Hi, I'm Katarina and I'm a ux designer with 10 years worth of experience with a MBA. I've spent time at agencies, where I learned the importance of storytelling, but most of my experience has been in big corp. I'm currently a designer at Audible (Amazon) where I've been for the past 5 years. Hi. I’m a BFA (Rochester Institute of Technology) turned MBA (Boston College). I believe creating a real impact for people requires a deep understanding of the problems, intentional solutions rooted in research, and a vision for the greater good.
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Jonathan Weber
Product Design Manager, Product Experiences at CircleCI
- Design Leadership
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- User Experience
I have been a digital designer for the last 20 years with a focus on products for the last decade. I love leading teams by running workshops and making data-driven design decision. I believe the best designs come from a deep understanding of the user and sharing this with teams.
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Joe Davidchik
Director of Product Design at Workrise
- Mobile Development
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
Experienced design leader with over 20 years driving innovation in user experience (UX), product design, and design operations across global fintech and SaaS organizations. Currently serving as Executive Director of Design at JPMorgan Chase, leading UX strategy for merchant payments and embedded commerce platforms serving mid-market and enterprise customers.
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Olivier Cottin
Strategy & Service Design at Shell
- eCommerce
- Information Architecture
- Product Design
- Service Design
12 years of commercial experience for Consumer and Enterprise facing products/services. - Responsive/Adaptive Web Services, Native Mobile Apps - E-commerce, Utilities, and B2B SaaS platforms I have the ability and skills to envision the bigger picture, imagine the bigger potential of what we call "small ideas/projects" and accelerate their development to bring them to life. Understanding Business first, simplifying its complexities through Design to articulate the desired intent and draw a clear path and directions to explore solutions that solve real human problems. I design products/services by putting user needs first at the core of what we do and to inform, and shape business strategy supported by insights and customer feedback. I manage experiences around the Customer lifecycle through cross-functional collaboration around the customer life stages and its lifetime with a brand. --- I offer the following: Design Leadership and Management, Strategic Design, Organisational Design Co-creation Workshop Facilitation Human / User-Centered Design User Experience Design, Customer Experience Management, Service Design, Product Design, User Research & Insights (Qualitative / Quantitative), and Testing Information Architecture and Content Strategy Design Systems Agile incremental, Lean UX, Design Sprint
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Tim Knight
Vice President of Product Design at Mad Mobile
- Design Systems
- Product Design
- User Research
I’m the Vice President of Product Design at Responsive, an enterprise B2B SaaS company focused on strategic response management. I lead a global design and user‑research team. Previously, I served as VP of Product Design for Mad Mobile / Cake POS, where I drove a design transformation of their product suite through design operations, design systems, and platform redesign. I am a product designer, front‑end engineer, and design leader who uses design to collaborate on solving real problems.
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Swarnima Shukla
Product Designer at Meesho
- Product Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
I am a self-taught designer with formal education in Computer Science and Engineering. I have 2+ years of experience in the design domain, from a design agency to an ed-tech startup to finally working at Meesho as a product designer. I have mentored around 150+ students since my college, by conducting 1-1 sessions, webinars and seminar at colleges, I like to connect with budding designers and have mentored over 10+ students and professionals to start their design journey. I would like to mentor for Product Design and its verticals along with design portfolio creation, starting design journey, career paths in this domain and interview preparation at various companies and startups.
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Leslie Lyons
Design Lead at Lollypop Design Studio
- Creative Direction
- User Interface
- Web Design
Digital designer and creative director who has been working in the digital space since 2006. Over the years, I've been part of different agencies producing digital solutions for clients including Citi, JLL, Optus, NTUC, Byjus, Epiance, Arka Energy, Delhivery, Navikenz, Comviva, Sundaram Finance, Indiaa Awards and Weddings & Marigold among others. Use below credential to access the website Username : admin Password : Admin@2020
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Harish Kumar
Group Head-Graphic Design at Lyxel&Flamingo
- Design Leadership
- Design Process
- eCommerce
- Graphic Design
Hi There, I am a graphic designer born & raised in Rajasthan and currently living in Gurgaon. I've been in love with design since my first MS Paint drawing. No, seriously! It's been a great path growing up & now being a creative lead at Camp K12, an ed-tech startup. Before CampK12, I worked with AdGlobal360 an award-winning advertising agency, and Adda52 an online poker gaming platform. An interesting highlight of my experience is that I ran "Social Cutlet" for about 3.5 years and we started our journey from a humble PG room to a productive office with a small team. We learned a lot about entrepreneurship, design, marketing, user journeys, and team building. We started out as a general digital company and evolved into a company focusing on lead generation and business growth through online advertising and content marketing. We worked with over 60+ clients from 6 countries. Where I have had the privilege of working with a variety of brands in industries like Advertising, e-Commerce, Online Gaming, Real Estate, Finance, FMCG, FMCD, Education, Healthcare, and more.
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Alex Perekatov
Head of Research and Analysis. Principal UX at KPMG
- Interaction Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
As an Experience Strategy lead I identify business opportunities, help teams to create sustainable vision for new products and services, provide strategic direction and ensure delivery excellence on large government and enterprise programs of work. Champion adoption of machine learning, develop design team, operational rhythms and drive cross-functional collaboration.
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Amil Asokan
Lead Product Design at nudgem
- Design Thinking
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
Hi! I’m Amil Asokan, a Product designer based in Tbilisi. I create user-friendly interfaces for fast-growing startups.
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Simon O'Shea
Design Systems‌‌ Manager at Nextdoor
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- User Experience
- User Interface
Experienced design leader, specializing in design systems and user experience design for mobile, web, and device applications. Accomplished in designing ground-breaking apps, interactive displays, and websites for WeWork, Facebook, Pandora, BBC Worldwide, Lonely Planet, the Melbourne Museum, and Madman Entertainment.
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Vineet Kanodia
Campaign Coordinator at MyyTake Group
- Design Leadership
- Design Thinking
- Product Management
A design thinking and social impact professional with over 4 years of experience, Vineet has worked on a diversified portfolio of TV/digital/print campaigns for leading social impact organizations in India. Vineet has also worked at the grassroots level as a year-long journey in the non-profit sector. He is well versed in curating content, producing graphics, conceptualizing and executing campaigns. He is a communication and design alumni from National Institute of Fashion Technology.
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