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    Muhammad Umair

    Product Designer at Innowi Inc.

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

    UX/UI designer with solid problem-solving skills. Seeking to lower the workload. through proven strengths in creativity, collaboration, and taking criticism, it also excels at several tech tools, including Adobe XD, Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Sketch, responsible for daily web/mobile UI design content for a design community.

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    Pat Arnold

    Designer / Principal at Relativity Studio

    • Art Direction
    • Branding & Identity
    • Creative Direction
    • Design Leadership

    Living at the intersection of the rebellious creative mindset and the control-freak tendencies of brand, I bring a unique perspective on how to build and manage vibrant systems that thrive in the now. Over an 18+ year career I've gone from a small Midwestern agency you’ve never heard of, learning how to be an art director on an account you likely have forgotten, on to working with some of the more impressive brand names one could casually drop in conversation. During my agency time I've worked in advertising, digital, and experience marketing shops such as Digitas, George P. Johnson, Gupta Media, Jack Morton and Toth+co. Clients have included On the client side I've applied that expertise at software brands Taleo, CA Technologies, and most recently Zipcar. Along the way I've taught at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Northeastern University, lectured, facilitated brand workshops, and bring a passion for great brand experiences to every project I lead or touch – still preferring to roll up my sleeves and ‘doing’ as much as I guide and mentor.

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    Jefferson Silva

    Product Designer at Proz Educação

    • Design Thinking
    • User Centered Design
    • User Interface
    • User Research

    I am a product designer, working since 2010 as a freelancer and remote mode. I worked on more than 50 projects, between the websites, systems, mobile applications, and training. I like and practice Design Thinking, Design Sprint, and Agile Methods. I love to work at research behavior people projects and design better experiences to define and solve problems.

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    Peter Dennis

    Investing at 1kx

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

    A designer focused on scaling startups, growing businesses and helping teams succeed through design.

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    Kaleb Loosbrock

    Sr Researcher at Instacart

    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience

    A Sr User Researcher at Instacart working on the Shopper Experience team. Previously a Design, Research, and Product Strategy consultant with 14+ years of designing, researching, and managing products. Prior to moving into Product Design, Research, & Strategy, I was a Product Manager for 8+ years. If you'd like to connect with me on LinkedIn and we don't yet know each other, please add to a note to introduce yourself and your interests. Senior User Researcher and Product Design Strategist with 13+ years in user research, experience design, and product management. Adept at conducting mixed-methods research, turning data into insights, and translating insights into successful design strategies, concepts, and experiences. I’m looking to partner with collaborative design teams and companies who want to connect with their colleagues and customers to inspire oohs, ahhs, and a-has. Experience Include: - Initiated, designed and analyzed a customer experience & product satisfaction survey to proactively inform and shape the product roadmap, resulting in a 10% YOY increase in customer satisfaction - Implemented UX researh roadmap that integrated UX research into the product roadmap and lead to drastic improvements to the overall customer experience. - Building the user research program at Kenshoo from scratch eventually conducting over 150 user research studies ranging from discovery to evaluative, qualitative to quantitative. - Led the product design strategy for Mediabrands Audience Platform intranet that connected 1200 teammates across 15 different countries. Skills: • Tools: Sketch, UXPin, Invision, Keynote, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign), Omnigraffle, Figma (learning), Excel, Google Suite • Research Expertise: Observational Field Studies, Contextual Inquiry, User Interviews, Cognitive Walkthroughs, Survey Design, Card sorting, Moderated Remote Testing, Task Flow Analysis, Heuristic evaluations, Intercept surveys, Usability Testing, System Usability Scale, UMUX-Lite, Net Promoter Score, Web Analytics, Usability Testing, Click stream analysis, Statistical Analysis, Presentation • Design Expertise: Design Strategy, User Experience Design (UED), UX Design, Interaction Design, Conceptual Design, Prototyping, Storyboarding, Design Sprint Facilitation, Data Visualization Design, Personas, Journey Mapping. Industry: B2B, B2C, Software as a Solution (SaaS), Agency, Hospitality, Travel, Retail, Transportation, Technology Leadership & Accolades: CCA Leading by Design Fellow, Mediabrand's Smashing Boundaries Award Winner, Reversim 2016 Speaker & Presenter, Workshops & Education series, Google Ventures Design Sprint Facilitator

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    Sarah Davies

    Creative Director at Studio 81

    • Art Direction
    • eCommerce
    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design

    12+ years as a creative, 6 as a mentor to other designers in the UI/UX field. Always looking to help and learn with others! My experience in psychology, marketing, human factors, and consumer behavior provides me with a unique approach and understanding of user behaviors and motivations, using evidence-driven design approaches balancing qualitative and quantitative techniques and storytelling methods to design sustainable solutions to solve complex problems. For me, the design process is a tool to bridge knowledge gaps, strengthen relationships, and increase cohesion. I’m passionate about creating clean, contemporary designs and interfaces with a pop of personality that put user experiences and brand identity first to help clients meet their goals and achieve their creative visions.

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    Vikas Thakur

    Software Engineer at BOLD

    • Adobe
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • User Research

    I am self taught designer. have been worked with different industries which are, eLearning, Tourism and Recruitment. I strongly advocate the user centered design and love to solve complex design problems using design thinking methodology. My area of interest are human psychology, HCI.

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    Tarzine Jackson

    UX/UI Design Manager at Acuant

    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • Wireframing

    My name is Tarzine Jackson, I'm the CEO and Founder of Koalesce Designs. We are a UX creative design agency with a purpose. Our focus is on design and strategy planning to build production-ready solutions - not promises.

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    Alessandro Curci

    UX Designer at ConTe.it

    • Figma
    • Graphic Design
    • Illustration

    I'm a UX designer passionate about photography. Work & Collaboration . Senior UX Designer @ConTe.it . Senior UX Designer @Conflux . UX/UI Designer @Baasbox . UI/UX Designer & CDO at Pickee - Easy group organizing (startup / personal project) . Contributor @TheNounProject

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    Zaid Rasid

    Sr. Design Consultant at SAP

    • Figma
    • User Experience

    I have a strong propensity towards innovation and creating digital products that inspire a sense of wonder. My approach is to always keep the end-user in mind with a focus on creating joy over frustration. My marketing skills ensure that customer goals and business goals are aligned. The deep insights I’ve developed from my marketing background, combined with my passion for design, led me to a career as a User Experience Designer. I completed a full-time intensive bootcamp at Bitmaker Labs (General Assembly) where I studied User Experience Design. In the course I learned the fundamentals of the entire design process including user-centered design, design thinking, user research, wire-framing, visual design, prototyping and much more. I’m looking to be a part of a dynamic team that encourages creativity and has a passion for good design. I’m looking to join an organization that understands the importance of creating a user experience that customers love. I strongly believe in continuous improvement and a culture of becoming better. If you’re looking to build something amazing, I would love to work with you.

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    Alina Balean

    Producr Design-Manager at Capital One

    • Design Leadership
    • Graphic Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I’m Alina, a strategic design lead, design thinking facilitator (ask me about business origami) and maker. I started my career as a graphic designer, navigating my way through print, exploring web and landing in UX.

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    Claudia Solé

    Product Designer at marcelwanders.com

    • Design Thinking
    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design
    • User Research

    Passionate about innovation and multidisciplinary projects. I've been involved in Design Thinking projects in CERN (Geneva) and Barcelona (Caixabank) Now I am based in Amsterdam and create high-end products for Marcel Wanders studio. Challenges always accepted

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    Swarnima Deshmukh

    Sr Experience Designer - Acrobat Sign at Adobe

    • Adobe
    • Information Architecture
    • Interaction Design
    • Sketch

    As part of the Adobe Sign design team, I'm the lead designer for all core Sign workflows in Acrobat (create various types of agreements, manage agreements, signer experience). Prior to this, I led the end to end experience (discover, try, buy) for a 30-day Adobe Sign trial (without payment). As the lead, I was responsible for orchestrating a seamless experience across Adobe.com, Adobe Sign, Commerce, and Admin Console. I also designed an onboarding / first-time experience for new users in Adobe Sign to ensure success in the 30 day trial.

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    Kumaresh Chinnaswamy

    User Experience Consultant at Design

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

    Passionate about people, data, design, technology, and strategy, a consultant helping organizations with digital solutions and experience. Our business today needs the ability to look at problems holistically and my stints across different industries, domains, and avatars help enable me to solve problems holistically. An active volunteer contributing to social causes to make the world a better place.

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    Jannik Schulz

    Head of Experience Design at Schüttflix

    • Design Strategy
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience

    Head of Experience Design @ Schüttflix

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    Kagiso Motidi

    Design Lead: Strategy & Purpose-led Sustainable Innovation, Experience Design at Nedbank

    • Product Design
    • Typography
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience

    I've always identified myself as a Business Designer. I believe every business has a design problem that I have the expertise to solve. When I'm not solving complex design issues in the finance industry, I'm watching interior decor videos on Youtube. Corporate Innovation | Experience Design | Sustainability | Social Impact A well-rounded enterprise design practitioner who’s passionate about strategic user experience and corporate innovation management. I focus mainly on the application of future-oriented design principles that help to increase an organization’s innovative and competitive qualities through prioritized purpose-led initiatives.

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    Munwar Khan

    Head of Design, OPPO India at OPPO

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Process
    • Design Sprint
    • Design Strategy

    Munwar Khan is the India Design Head, OPPO Mobiles. A design post graduate from IIT Bombay with more than 12 years of working experience in UX domain. Previously he worked with Samsung Mobiles, Huawei Mobiles, Honeywell innovation lab & ADP. His areas of interest are design thinking, design sprint and creative confidence. He got the opportunity to work with Noble prize winner Dr. Eric Allin Cornell. Munwar Khan also holds 12 design patents in India, South Korea & USA. Areas of Intrest: UX Design, Design Sprint, Design Process , Design Thinking

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    David Anthony

    Head Of Design and Design Systems at Endpoint

    • Branding & Identity
    • Creative Direction
    • Graphic Design
    • User Experience

    I’m a multidisciplinary creative designing and building software applications, brand identities, immersive art installations, and many other things involving focused creativity. Passionate about all things design. My daily work focuses on design operations, UX design and strategy, design systems, and most importantly team health. I help companies ideate, validate, test, build and launch the highest quality digital products. Whether through creativity, teaching, or mentoring, I believe one of the highest human acts is to inspire others. https://read.cv/dba

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    Shaun Byrne

    Head of Product Design at Zipline App

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

    Design leader suited for growing distributed teams that believe in the science of design and innovative product development. Believer in using quantitative and qualitative data to validate, inform and measure success. With 10+ years working in global product teams, I have a proven track record in end to end product design, development and delivery. I continually strive to understand the user to continually deliver beautiful and scalable solutions that meet user and business needs. I deliver my best value when working with autonomous product teams and developing the practice of design within an organisation. Specialties: → Product & design strategy → Team building → Workshop facilitation → Multi Fidelity prototyping → Research, interaction & visual design. → Agile and product methodologies → Design systems → MVT & A/B testing

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    Ifunanya Onwughalu

    Lead Product Designer at Flinke.io

    • Design Thinking
    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience

    I'm Ifunanya Onwughalu, a seasoned product designer on a quest to sprinkle magic and delight into every user's journey. With a playful imagination and a fusion of design prowess and frontend wizardry, I work with early-stage startups to build their ideas into meaningful MLPs and user-centric experiences that delight their users and drive business results.

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    Ahmad Shadeed

    Founder, Lead Designer at Uxable

    • Graphic Design
    • Illustration
    • Mobile Development
    • User Interface

    I'm willing to help in UX, UI Design and Front-End Development. I enjoy working problem solving for web and mobile projects. Lifelong learner. A multidisciplinary designer with an eye for details. I’m Ahmad, Digital Product Designer and Front-End Developer from Palestine. My work has been recognised and featured by well-known websites and newsletters like Smashing Magazine, Laravel, CSS-Tricks, Codrops, HTML5 Weekly, CSS Weekly, SidebarIO and many more. Get in touch: shadeed9@gmail.com

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    Flavio Santana

    Product Designer at Volkswagen Digital Solutions

    • Figma
    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    Senior UX/UI Designer focused on how software products “function” and how users move through the experience to accomplish their goals. Deep experience partnering with other team members to develop the strategy and design for all required product features. International and domestic experience in countries, including Brazil, France, Canada, Argentina, Malaysia, Montenegro, and Peru. Clients include Renault (France), LG (Brazil), Brasil Pré-Pagos (Brazil), SESC (Brazil), Guaraná (Canada), and Matera (Brazil). My role is focused on skills like: * Information Architecture; * Product Development; * Interface Design; * Interaction Design; * Front-end development (HTML & CSS); * Usability tests; * Data Analysis; My job is available on www.flaviosantana.work Articles and thoughts about UX Design in www.coletivoux.com (only Portuguese)

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    Meghan Kelley

    Senior Digital Designer, Design Systems at Zendesk

    • Design Systems
    • Information Architecture
    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design

    I’m a product designer, end-end based in San Francisco. I specialize in UI design and building design systems. With over 7 years of design experience, I’ve worked in museum design, B2B and AI for early stage startups and science education non profits helping them innovate and thrive. I have a passion for creating, evolving and maintaining design systems. I’m currently evolving Greenhouse, Zendesk’s design system for their Brand and Marketing teams. Greenhouse has gained tremendous adoption since my arrival at Zendesk, so lookout for hiring opportunities as we continue to grow our design systems team. At Kelvin (A.I. Series C machine data management startup for oil and gas) I lead the creation of a design system from the ground up. I designed and defined interaction patterns for responsive data tables, menus, style guides, toolkits and components. I created documentation and evangelized UI consistency with product and engineering teams to help expand system level thinking. I also did feature product improvements end to end as a key contributor product designer. At Granular (SaaS startup in agriculture management and operations), my focus was product design for the CFO and CEO allowing them to analyze and improve their crop and business decisions with financial data. I also worked on creating their design system. At the California Academy of Sciences (non profit science museum) I created award winning science based interactive experiences for exhibits and websites. Won a Webby Honoree Award. I'm classically trained in Industrial Design from RISD with over 7 years experience. I seek to understand the human experience that helps organizations thrive. Analytical thinking and empathetic problem solving I believe drives meaningful design that solves real world problems. When I'm not designing, you'll find me wood carving or woodworking, creating Pre-K activities, and jogging on the beach with my husband and daughter. Specialties: Design Systems Product Design Project Management Product UI User Experience Design User Interface Design User Research Interaction Design Information Architecture Prototyping

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    Craig Cailler

    Product Design Manager at Privafy · Full-time

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Management
    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design

    A passionate user experience design leader with over twenty years of experience, providing strategic direction across a broad range of products and industries while mentoring and empowering teams to deliver thoughtful, innovative and engaging user-centered design solutions to complex problems.

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    Karlie Chung

    Product & Brand Designer at Freelance

    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I am a diverse passionate product designer for over 6 years. My first very designer job was in a digital agency. This is how I started my product design journey. Since then, I just can't leave it, go beyond design and build something from scratch. I also do brand and advertising designs which expand my capabilities and think a bigger picture. I love meeting and connecting people. I am lucky enough to have great mentors in my career journey. I have been freelancing and working remotely for the last couples of years. The journey isn't easy. I am still learning everyday. I'd love to share my experiences and answering your questions. Also, I have been living aboard, if you are in the same shoes, I am here with you.