Our Mentors

Working designers volunteering their time. Filter by what you need help with, where you are, or how you like to meet.

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    Vladimir Stegantsov

    Lead Product Designer at ARRIVAL

    • Graphic Design
    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Research

    Product Designer at Revolut. Previously Yandex (Russian Google). Passionate about creative tools, innovative interfaces, information representation, sound design & XR

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    Simina Megyes

    Sr. UX Designer & UX Researcher at Bitdefender

    • Career Advice
    • Design Critique
    • Product Design
    • User Research

    I'm focused on creating seamless experiences that satisfy user needs and exceed business goals through design. I design informed by research. Accustomed to traversing design challenges from value proposition to pixel-perfect details.

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    Johan Steneros

    Angel Squad Member at Hustle Fund

    • Branding & Identity
    • Design Systems
    • Design Thinking
    • Marketing Design

    I’m Johan Steneros and I’m and entrepreneur with a background in design. I have been working in digital design for over 20 years where my main focus is product design and brand identity design. Apart from working as a designer I have been involved with various startups as a founder where I have also worked in the fields of project management, business development, marketing and recruitment and what not. Some of the areas I have experience working with include SaaS, B2B, B2C, e-commerce, marketplaces, crypto, food & beverage and hospitality.

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    Eswar Varma

    Ast Lead UX Designer at Tech Mahindra XDS

    • Accessibility
    • Design Process
    • Inclusive Design
    • Product Design

    Hello Folks! My name is Eswar, a Product Designer based in Hyderabad. I have been designing digital products for over 5 years across various domains like Telecommunication, Sports, SaaS, and Surveillance. I have worked on a wide range of products from B2B to B2C, web-based to native mobile apps, concept designs scaled-up products, and with startups and multinational organizations. I have worn multiple hats during this journey from being an interaction designer focusing on modules of an application to a product designer focusing on the design, strategy & vision of the entire product. Currently, I'm working as an Ast Lead UX Designer in one of India's largest digital studios (Tech Mahindra XDS). Earlier I was a part of Microsoft's Commerce studio and worked with companies like Verizon, MTN, Crayola, and Rajasthan Royals.

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    Pei Lin

    Sr. Product Design Consultant I at Neudesic

    • Design Systems
    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design
    • User Research

    Hey, I am Pei! I have 4+ years of experience from service design to UX design. I specialize in user research, interaction design, and collaboration strategy. If you are curious about any of the topics above, let's have a coffee through the zoom.

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    Sergio Hernández

    diseño y comunicación at sergiohp

    • Art Direction
    • Graphic Design
    • Growth Marketing
    • Typography

    Diseño y maquetación de libros, revistas, exposiciones...; corrección ortográfica y ortotipográfica de español

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    Alessandra Bosi

    Graphic Designer at Studio La Plage (SLP)

    • Art Direction
    • Branding & Identity
    • Graphic Design
    • Illustration

    I am a graphic designer with 9 years of experience mainly in branding design- both agency and in-house. Experienced Freelance Graphic Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the graphic design industry. Skilled in Corporate Identity, Visual Communication, Graphics, Illustration, and Typography. Strong design professional with a Postgraduate Diploma Design for Visual Communication focused in Graphic Design from University of the Arts London- London College of Communication.

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    Ghulam Mustafa

    Growth Product Designer at Toptal

    • Design Critique
    • Design Leadership
    • Design Management
    • Design Strategy

    Design is an obsessive passion for Mustafa. Providing a rich, engaging, and delightful experience to the user is his prime focus. In the last seven years of living and breathing designing, he has had the opportunity to work with some of the smartest minds in the industry, and those experiences have only helped him get better at what he does. Note: Mustafa is here to help mostly Junior and Mid-Level designers to scale their design career, and how to improve your design process, and how to plan for your career. He can also help you to give some pro-tips for the design interviews as well.

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    Kaushik Dave

    Senior Manager, User Experience at 7-Eleven

    • Career Advice
    • Design Thinking
    • Interaction Design
    • User Centered Design

    I’m a seasoned UX leader & practitioner with experience in applying UCD process and practices to build products customers fall in love with. With my horizontal expertise in different disciplines, methods processes will help younger and new design practitioners to be ready for their next design job. Experienced Design Leader and Strategist with over 15 years of experience as a User Experience/Interaction Designer & Strategist with consulting background in Insurance, Automotive, Travel & Retail industries. I have great passion for human centered design and consistently thrive to create innovative, empathetic and compelling digital products and services. I have proven record of building both strategic and tactical partnership with business and IT partners to plan and deliver optimal user experience. I am able to work independently and collaboratively in fast paced and cross-functional, results-oriented environment. Specialties: - UX Strategy and Design Research Planning - Expertise in UX Researching techniques including Interviewing, Contextual Inquiry, Stakeholder interviews, Usability testing, Personas and Scenario generation, Competitive analysis and Heuristic reviews - Expertise in low and hi-fidelity Wireframing, Prototyping for websites, desktop/web applications and mobile interaction design - Managing Lean UX practices within Agile development teams - Building scalable UX design processes and practices for design organizations - Facilitating Design thinking, Design Sprints & Service Design Blueprinting workshops

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    Carolina Tod

    Associate Design Manager at Luizalabs @ Magazine Luiza

    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Research

    I’m one of those designers living in the edge between product management and user experience - for more than 12 years now. In this “gray area” I had specialized in product discovery, service design, and UX strategy for product development and digital transformation initiatives.

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    Neil Krishnan

    Product Designer at Interviewing.io

    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • Web Design

    UI/UX, Prototyping

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    Shveta Aneja

    UX Lead at Google

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

    My work combines problem definition, understanding business impact, user research & advocacy, creativity, going deep into the craft of design, cross-functional collaboration, and UX product management. I have worked in companies and teams of all shapes and sizes, and both consumer and enterprise domains. I thrive best when working together with passionate people trying to solve complex problems. I also love mentoring other designers and helping them grow.

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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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    Amit Mojumder

    Product Designer at Optimizely

    • Human Computer Interaction
    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design
    • Visual Design

    I am a Product(UX) & Interaction Designer with more than 12 years of industry experience, starting with graphic and UI design and later specializing in UX design. I live and breathe in crafting simple and user-centered digital experiences that significantly impact company business goals. User psychology, design thinking, and how people use digital products fascinate me most. Creating simple user experiences(UX) that also directly impact business is my primary goal.

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    Gunjan Thapa

    Creative Head at Christian Medical Association of India

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Strategy
    • Interaction Design
    • Mobile Design

    creative director at wesence and design advisor to multiple mid-scaled startups. previously co-founded and worked as a chief design officer to a danish hospitality tech startup. expertise in application product design and ui ux design for cross-industry platforms including healthcare, fintech, hospitality, fashion, education, and others.

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    Jyoti Thakur

    Associate Design Director - Product & Service Design at IBM

    • Information Architecture
    • Interaction Design
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience

    12+ years of experience in the field of designing an application with a core understanding of the user-centric approach. I love to bring solution to the problem and that's what design is for me. 13+ year’s experience in the IT industry & a Certified Usability Analyst from HFI (Human Factors International, USA). An experienced Usability Analyst with a deep understanding of user experience while designing applications for huge companies in different domains of E-Commerce, Chemicals & Petroleum, Healthcare, Digital Banking, Technology & Travel, Digital Reinvention, Specialties: Experience in creating Information Architecture of the system by including Stakeholder Interviews, CX Journey Mapping, Contextual Inquiry, Card Sorting, Competitive Analysis, Heuristic Evaluations, formal Usability Testing, A/B Testing, Ethnography Research. Expertise in problem-solving through a good understanding of user-centered design principles, qualitative experience in all aspects of creative design including conceptualization, designing, & execution. Facilitating Design Thinking from cross-functional product teams for successful product Innovation & UX Design. Set up an in-house usability lab, building a niche research team through mentoring & training them with the industry matching standards. Produce deep study reports of consumer insights based on observation & insights through different methodologies adopted during the process. Help the organization by building a world-class customer experience by delivering valuable insights through qualitative & quantitative research.

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    Nihar Soni

    Founder and Design Head at Studio CONTENT.

    • Furniture Design
    • Product Design

    Hi I am Nihar Soni from India! I am practicing interior and furniture design since 2015. I have done masters in both from Florence, Italy. I have been visiting faculty at Navrachna University in Vadodara city in the state of Gujarat in India. I would love to mentor students or professionals for Furniture design and product design.

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    Daniel Schwartz

    Member at Design Leadership Forum

    • Creative Direction
    • Design Management
    • eCommerce
    • User Centered Design

    Senior design leader with a passion for building high-performing user experience design and research teams that drive loyalty to brands and help businesses thrive. Using strategic design practices, my teams at Bank of America, McGraw-Hill Education and Salesforce have changed the way people shopped for financial products, how people bank online, how online education is taught and how the world’s largest consumer brands sell products online. My approach focuses on being a value-focused and authentic leader that invests heavily in establishing strong and respected relationships in order for teams to do their best work and collaboratively build amazing products.

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    Somnath Nabajja

    Senior Product Designer at OkCredit

    • Mobile Design
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience

    I'm an engineer by degree and a designer by choice. It's been 10 yrs as a designer and has been UXcifying web or mobile products for 8+ years. Having diverse experience designing for the Next Billion Users in emerging markets like India, Mexico, Kenya, Philippines. Formerly, designed products for EdTech & Customer Engagement space too. When at leisure, I like to click, cook, read, write and mentor on design.

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    Anandu Nair

    Senior Product Designer at Siemba

    • Figma
    • Information Architecture
    • Product Design
    • User Interface

    I'm an innovative & Solution Focused UX/Product Designer with a proven history of enhancing user experience and engagement for key industry players from all over the world, across a wide range of domains. My area of expertise include: - Design Strategy - Design Management - User Experience Design (UX) - User Interface Design (UI) - Product Design - Interaction Design - User Research - Ability to solve complex problems - Product Innovation - Talk, sell & Deliver designs. If you'd like to meet for coffee or a quick chat, Please send an email my way. Email: connectwithanandu@gmail.com

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    Ranil Perera

    UX/UI Manager at Camms

    • Design Thinking
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience
    • User Research

    With 15+ years of experience in UX and product design, including 6+ years leading UX teams as a Senior UX Manager, I help designers bridge the gap between beautiful interfaces and real business problems. My career has focused on enterprise SaaS products used by thousands of professionals across governance, risk, compliance, and operational management. I've led end-to-end UX initiatives, established UX processes, built and scaled design systems, introduced accessibility standards (WCAG), and partnered closely with product managers, engineers, executives, and customers to deliver measurable product improvements. I believe great UX starts with understanding people, not pixels. My mentoring style is practical, honest, and focused on helping designers develop the thinking skills required to become valuable product designers. Together, we'll work through real-world challenges rather than theoretical exercises. Whether you're just starting your career or preparing for your next leadership opportunity, my goal is to help you think strategically, design with confidence, and create products that deliver measurable value for both users and businesses. I believe the best designers never stop learning, and I'd be excited to be part of your journey.

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    Ashwini Solanki

    Associate General Manager at HCL Technologies

    • Interaction Design
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Ashwini Solanki is a passionate User Experience Design professional working at the intersection of people, business & technology. He is Solving strategic and complex business problems with a lens of design thinking. Ashwini has more than a decade of experience in leading and managing digital product/project user experiences for domains like Manufacturing, IT, Travel, Telecom, Banking -Finance for their B2B, B2B2C & B2C consumers. He brings versatile design experience spanning across design strategy, UX Management, User Psychology, contextual research & interaction design. In his last organization, he has fostered research-driven, design-led development culture and led the design for digital transformation. He set-up the design studio in his last organization which is functioning as a “Synergia Studio”. He nurtured a scalable design system for the product in his last organization that helps reduce development and design time and increased consistency across all platforms. His focus areas are to establish empathy for user archetypes & stakeholders in the organization by devising coordinated research activities to envision & conceptualize digital experiences.

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    Phathu Nenzhelele

    Product Design Lead at MTN

    • Design Critique
    • Design Leadership
    • Design Management
    • Design Systems

    With over 12 years of experience in design, I've been fortunate enough to learn and understand strategic thinking, creativity, and leadership skills. I guide teams of product designers (UI/UX) to deliver exceptional designs that resonate with users and drive business success. My journey in design has been marked by a commitment to pushing boundaries, embracing challenges, and fostering collaboration across disciplines. I want to share my experiences with other designers looking to get into the product design field or leadership roles. Through this mentorship, I will help you avoid the same mistakes I made.

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    Niels Koelmeyer

    Freelance Senior Product Designer at Qonto

    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • User Research

    Hi! I have experience designing products in a wide-ranging field: From Enterprise-grade B2B software to fast-paced start-up environments. I can help you design the ideal design process to solve your challenge, how to do effective research, or give tips and tricks on how to build to learn, fast.

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    Pranjal Bhown

    Designer II at Microsoft

    • Design Thinking
    • Illustration
    • Mobile Development
    • User Centered Design

    An engineer turned designer, I have worked with startups and MNCs, currently working with Microsoft as a UX Designer, after completing Masters in Design from NID Bangalore, India. I like to work at the intersection of art, aesthetics, technology, and psychology. The interaction of humans with objects, spaces, and among each other fascinates me. Currently designing experiences for Microsoft Loop, rethinking the future of collaborative working. Looking forward to connect with professionals across industries, domains and skillsets to learn from everyone and give back in the process. Check out my portfolio at www.pranjalbhown.com . I would be glad to connect with you!