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Adrian Carpintero
UX Designer at Amazon
- Art Direction
- Motion Design
- Portfolio Review
- User Experience
Hi there! I’m Adrian. I was born and raised in Argentina, lived in Spain, moved to Chicago, and now happily call Austin home. I am a UX Designer with a passion for developing creative and compelling end-to-end user experiences. I started my career in art direction at ad agencies back in Argentina before moving to the States, where I’ve had the pleasure of helping launch several startups and working on campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. In addition to UI/UX design, I enjoy creating motion graphic animations, seamless user experiences, service blueprints, user journeys, infographics, illustrations—the list goes on. When I’m not in front of my computer, you can find me playing volleyball, learning to play the piano, or my favorite—the ukulele. Oh, and I also make a mean empanada. Specialties: Visual Design, UI/UX, Web Design, Motion Graphic Design, Design and Art Direction, Human Centered Design, Usability Testing, Research, Brand Development.
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Raunaq Singh
Head of Creative at Pristyn Care
- Art Direction
- Branding & Identity
- Creative Direction
- Design Thinking
Multidisciplinary Creative Director, passionate about strategic ideas that transform the way brands interact with audiences. With a decade of experience in brand and agencies, have been creating impactful, strong visual communication for start-ups and global brands. From designing visuals for over 20 international feature films to heading design associations with brands like Disney, Uber, Sony Pix, Facebook, Government of India, Dailyobjects, Oxfordcaps, I bring an impactful visual communication led perspective to crafting campaigns, branding, motion videos, handling teams and more. My brand creatives have been featured in Facebook and recently in Adobe. Hands-on with Art direction, Visual Communication, Designing Campaigns, Photography, Motion Videos, User Interfaces & Mentoring teams. ★ Headed design for Govt. of India, UBER, Sony PIX, Facebook, DailyObjects, Oxfordcaps & more. ★ Work credited in feature films - X-Men: First Class, Scream 4, Transformers, Final Destination 5, Guzaarish, Disney Planes & more.
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Sagar Ghoting
Director, Design & Innovation at SRMG Labs
- DesignOps
- Design Strategy
- Product Design
- Service Design
I have a long experience working in agencies & consultancies [across continents] as a Design Leader on multi-million dollar digital products & service platforms, brands and campaigns, with proven expertise within each domain across the experience delivery cycle – from Branding & Advertising to Innovation & Product Design to Service & Experience Design. I support AstroLabs in Dubai, VIISA in Vietnam, and now Designed.org. I currently operate as an advisor, consultant & practitioner, offering strategy & design services for any Product/Service, in a manner that helps businesses drive brand affinity, speed up time-to-market and reduce costs, whilst stitching overall customer experience consistency. I help startups and SMEs overcome commonly faced issues & challenges. Some problems I repeatedly hear are: – “We did focus groups and built our feature sets based on customer feedback. Our backlog was clearly focussed on solving a market need but still faced challenges with adoption.” – “We thought our product is more important than aesthetics and feel.” – “Our increase in adoption is quite sudden and we don’t know what to do.” – “We have a great product but people don’t think it’s ‘cool’.” – “We have invested time and again in Digital Advertising but it’s not getting any results.” – “The problem is not our product it’s the support that’s having issues.”
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Viral Patel
Senior Manager UX Designs at In-Solutions Global Ltd
- Augmented Reality
- Career Advice
- Figma
- Graphic Design
After having a decade of experience in the creative industry & working with talented creatives in different backgrounds is an endless source of inspiration for me. I studied a BCA - Bachelor of Computer Applications (2012) Always passionate about designing, solving problems & working with like-minded people. I love creating high-impact design solutions that make people happy & I've always admired how thoughtful design has the power to change the world.
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Kumar Jayaraman
Principal Product Designer at Dell Technologies
- Interaction Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
- User Research
User experience design lead with 15+ years of experience in designing complex transactional desktop products, web and mobile applications. Creativity, innovation and simplicity are the key driving factors of my vision to create superior design solutions through User-Centered design process. User experience professional with over 18 years of experience in designing complex desktop products, web/mobile applications and services for e-commerce, education institutions, online payments, financial services, capital markets and hedge funds. Creativity, innovation and simplicity are the key driving factors of my vision to create superior designs. I’ve invested ample time researching & analyzing users’ mindset & behavior which would help clients identify & understand their audience aptly and navigate their focus to achieve business goals by building a compelling design solution through user-centered design process. My association with some of the blue chip companies as Principal UX Designer, UX Program and Project Manager, UX Mentor, UX Manager, UX/UI Designer, Information Architect, Interaction Designer, Web Designer, Graphic Designer and Animator has further added to my learning & experience in User experience design over the years. Specialization: UX Program & Project Management, User Experience, User Interaction, User Interface, Information Architecture, Web & Mobile Application Design, Requirement Gathering, Conceptualization, Design Documentation, Prototyping, Usability / User Testing, Graphic Design, Video Editing, Animation, Lean UX, Agile, CDI, Cross Functional Team Collaboration, Team Building and Mentoring.
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Marzie Nadali
Product Design Manager at Amenitiz
- Career Advice
- Design Leadership
- Portfolio Review
- User Research
👋🏼 Product design manager passionate about inspiring and leading diverse teams into building meaningful products. ❣️Building design communities for junior & mid-level designers via @MarziUXD (over 10k members) 💡+100 hours of mentoring helping designers with career advice, CV and portfolio reviews, product research, workshops and soft skills.
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Manoj Prid
Creative Director and Head of Sustainability at Kaelis
- Art Direction
- Branding & Identity
- Creative Direction
- Graphic Design
Design is the medium that allows me to visualise the world through the lens of creativity. I feel lucky to be doing what I am passionate about: Bringing ideas to existence, translating a concept into reality in the medium that best suits it be it Print, Web, Video, Product or the whole digital arena. I enjoy the process of taking a dream to a concept, developing it into an idea and bringing it to life, using Nature, Fashion and Architecture as my inspiration. I love what I do, and continue to do, continue to grow and continue to create. Design is the medium that allows me to visualise the world through the lens of creativity. I feel lucky to be doing what I am passionate about: Bringing ideas to existence, translating a concept into reality in the medium that best suits it be it Print, Web, Video, Product or the whole digital arena. I enjoy the process of taking a dream to a concept, developing it into an idea and bringing it to life, using Nature, Fashion and Architecture as my inspiration. I love what I do, and continue to do, continue to grow and continue to create.
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Ben Spear
Interim Director of Design at Geode Capital Management
- Branding & Identity
- Career Advice
- Design Leadership
- Team Building
Transformative design leader with 20 years of experience in team building and development, scaling design, brand strategy, design education, user research, UX/UI, and production. Servant leader and true believer in the power of design to improve the world and ourselves.
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Aseem Saini
Design Research & Strategy Advisor at Early Stage Startups
- Design Management
- DesignOps
- Ethnography
- User Research
I’m currently working as a Product & UX Researcher at BetterPlace where I drive all research activities in B2C across 3 pods (Jobs Marketplace, Social Community, Consumer Skilling) alongside building and systemizing design+research operations. I enjoy working at the intersection of Design, Data, Business & Technology and have deep interest in solving complex socio-technical problems. I believe good knowledge should be democratized and I feel immense joy when I'm able to help someone realise their full potential; this re-energises me and makes my life more meaningful and makes me more optimistic towards life-in-general. Like Mr. Jung used to say, "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed"
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Ramzi AlArabi
Communications & Creative Director at MONACO GROUP
- Branding & Identity
- Creative Direction
- Design Critique
- Design Thinking
With over 20 years of creative expertise spanning digital, performance marketing, large-scale events and traditional advertising, I excel at building and developing creative teams to produce exceptional work. Moreover, I have long experience in communication and program/event coordination with strong emphasis on client experience, customer retention, and presentation of brand. During my journey, I’ve managed and motivated interdisciplinary teams and built brands from the ground up, worn every hat on the rack, and leapt tall buildings in a single bound. I hold a bachelor degree in Visual Arts and a master degree in Communication, and currently pursuing my PhD degree in Mass Communication at Universiti Putra Malaysia.
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Geremy Mumenthaler
Lead UX Designer at Williams-Sonoma, Inc
- Design Systems
- Design Thinking
- Graphic Design
- Product Design
Geremy is a designer, creative product strategist, and illustrator with more than 15 years of design experience. Previously design director of The Noun Project where he launched and supported a multi-sided marketplace of millions of creatives. He currently consults with large corporations like Williams Sonoma and Facebook to create digital products needed and accessible to a global audience. After stepping away from technology at the end of the day, he illustrates people, products, and architecture with ink and watercolor.
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Amy Demas
Founder & Executive Creative Director at AD & Co. (self Employed)
- Art Direction
- Creative Direction
- Design Leadership
- Graphic Design
Fueled by her talent for assembling and leading valuable creative teams, Amy Demas founded her Los Angeles-based agency, AD&Co. in 2016 to offer clients a more specialized and agile approach to solving their need for innovative brand creative solutions with seamless production and execution. Amy has conceptualized and led the creative vision and marketing communications across every media platform for both recognizable and emerging brands including Target, Victoria’s Secret, Revlon, CVS/pharmacy, EVEREVE, Neocell, Natural Vitality, White House Black Market and Conde Nast. Her creative career has spanned from art directing award-winning JANE Magazine to co-founding and leading a multi-million dollar creative agency that serviced brands CVS/pharmacy, Minute Clinic, West Elm and DC Shoes to spearheading the re-branding of retailer, White House Black Market.
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Namrata Sinha
UX Lead at IBM
- Design Thinking
- Product Design
- User Centered Design
- User Research
Hi there ! I am Namrata Sinha, UX Designer & Researcher based out of India. As an experienced UI UX Design professional, I bring a wealth of knowledge gained from 6 years working full-time at IBM, LTIMindtree and Accenture along with years of freelancing and internships at design and Advertising agencies. I specialize in creating intuitive and visually appealing digital experiences that prioritize user needs. I would love to connect with similar interests peeps!
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Sachindra Puthran
Video Story teller at Miami Ad School India
- Animation
- Art Direction
- Creative Direction
- Design Thinking
Technology and Art Jedi with the insights of a microbiologist. A mentor, digital and traditional artist, thinker, innovator, technologist, nature lover, traveler and brand raconteur. Thatzit Private Limited is where you will find intelligent media solutions to your specific communication problems. With our exclusive approach and through innovative measures, we lend our clients a cutting edge. Our multi-disciplinary approach enables us to see various media of communication as separate or unique, but as an essential part of the total image. Our team comprises talents from the fields of film, animation design and technology. Together, we deliver unique solutions to the critical problems of our clients. To create impeccably integrated work that surprises and attracts them. To give them more than what they expect each time. Specialties: Film - Animation - Design - Technology
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Shriram Venkatraman
Group Manager at Mphasis Corporation
- Design Systems
- Interaction Design
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
With over a decade at Mphasis, my tenure as Head of Design has been marked by a relentless pursuit of innovative user experience strategies. Our team's commitment to usability design and web applications has elevated Mphasis's offerings, matching the company's mission of delivering cutting-edge solutions. A certified usability analyst, I bring a unique blend of skills acquired through roles at Polaris Software Lab and Mahindra Satyam, underpinning my expertise in user research. At Mphasis, we're not just creating interfaces; we're crafting experiences that resonate with users globally, thanks to a deep understanding of cultural nuances and ever-evolving user demands.
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Dumebi Iwuchukwu
Designer at Braintrust
- Art Direction
- Branding & Identity
- Design Leadership
- Portfolio Review
Dumebi (Du-may-be) Nnadirinwa Iwuchukwu is the Head of Design at Big Cabal Media where he leads a team of Brand and Product designers. Previously, He was an Art Director at Webcoupers and before that, at Isobar. He also taught Art direction at 02 Academy Lagos. He has been working in design for about 10 years now with experience in Brand, Product and Marketing Design. During his design journey, he's had the privilege of creating enabling experiences for people with brands like Google, Budweiser, Nivea, Sprite, Schweppes, Sterling Bank, Globacom and more. Teaching and mentorship has always been a huge part of his career as a designer and He mentors designers on; Resume and portfolio review, Acing technical interview questions, Breaking into tech, Negotiating a job offer, Design career path, Building an effective team, Fostering a good team culture, Keeping team members motivated, Managing a remote team, Managing people, Dealing with imposter syndrome, Managing burnout, Working remotely, Working with designers, Improving design skills, Launching new products or features, Leveraging Product Analytics, Choosing metrics and team goals, Identifying problems vs solutions, Conducting good user research, Working cross-functionally, Running effective meetings, Building a design process, Working with product and engineering, Prototyping methods and tips, Presenting your work with impact, Onboarding new users, Creating a product vision.
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Tanya Wlodarczyk
Senior Product Designer at Undivided
- Branding & Identity
- Career Advice
- Design Critique
- Entrepreneurship
Tanya is the senior product designer at Undivided, a startup focused on helping families raise kids with disabilities. She's worked with various YC companies and founded (and sold) a boutique design agency. She loves scuba, being by the water, and is looking to get back into ceramics.
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Sebastian Mantel
Lead Product Designer at Google
- Art Direction
- Graphic Design
- Product Design
- User Experience
I am a creative, dedicated and multidisciplinary Product Designer based in Tel Aviv, specialized in Product Design. I like to keep things fresh, clean and minimal, balancing aesthetics and usability to create intuitive experiences. I enjoy creating structured wireframes, planning and problem solving, as well as having a strong interest in Data analysis, and Information architecture. I have more than 8 years of experience in design and worked with different clients from Uruguay, Argentina, USA and Israel.
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Yael Lola Liver
Product Manager - UX/UI Specialist at Questionmark
- Graphic Design
- Product Design
- Typography
- User Experience
I am a UX & UI Product Designer, Product Manager, and Researcher. Bachelor's degree excellence graduate in Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, and Award scholarship from Google. Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative research methods, Graphic design, Android Basic Development, proficiency in Start-up operations management, and technology-oriented in cybersecurity and cryptocurrency. Open for relocation - Europe and the area. Main fields of research: Entrepreprenurs, Startups, Social media platforms, Psychology, Cyber, Sociology, Mental health, Cultural differences, Woman managers, and more.
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Vikas Bhutani
Senior Service Designer at Atlassian
- Design Leadership
- Product Design
- Service Design
- User Centered Design
I am an Experience design consultant with a track record of driving business value through innovation, customer strategy and end to end experience design. With more than 14 years of experience in product/service design and digital strategy for enterprise customers.
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Prajwal Shrestha
UX/UI Design and Visual Design Specialist at ATX Group of Malaysia
- Figma
- Illustration
Hello, I’m a interactive product designer based in Kathmandu Nepal and well qualified in modern web based technologies, currently working @yetistudio.co
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Fabrice Luit
Co-fondateur at Archipel Kyosei
- Design Leadership
- Information Architecture
- Product Design
- Product Management
I'm UX designer, Sketch app expert. I can help with minimum lovable prototyping, Design System... i am expert in design thinking and design sprint.
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Vasilis Baimas
UX Designer at Netmechanics S.A.
- Service Design
- User Experience
- Web Design
👋 Hi, it's nice to meet you. I am Vasilis. I'm an in-house UX designer, with a background in visual and product design. I have been working with agencies and business companies which has enriched me because I have been able to focus on creative collaboration while expanding my skill set.
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Sunil Kumar
Chief Manager (Design) at Reliance
- Design Thinking
- Fashion Design
A dedicated and proactive fashion and design professional with 8 years of experience in the value retail segment as well as luxury retail sector. A Fashion design professional with 8 years of design and managerial experience in the Apparel retail sector, with proficiency in design and thinking.
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Brian Tanner
Service Design Director at Pegasystems
- Design Thinking
- Graphic Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
I enjoy leading the exploration of new ideas by conducting research to gain knowledge and solve problems. I have a specific passion for empathizing with each and every touchpoint along the user/customer journey in order to orchestrate strategies that align business operations & goals with user behaviors. I love to teach what I know, share my experiences, and most of all –collaborate with others who have various perspectives on how to solve problems Specialties: Service Design, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Numerical Reasoning, Idea Generation, Visual Comparison Ninja, Systems Thinker, cool dude 😎
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