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Daniel Stoyanov
Manager, Research and UX Design at Progress
- Information Architecture
- Product Design
- User Experience
- User Research
I have 15 years of experience in the field of creating usable and effective user interface solutions. Over the course of my career, I designed user experiences for a variety of web and desktop-based software products, intranet systems and websites. I am passionate about creating UX concepts and strategies that form the foundation of reliable, usable and effective products. I dedicate my spare time to motorsports—both watching and practicing. I would feel comfortable to mentor on topics like creating initial UX concepts, IA, Hi-Fi prototyping.
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Rifat Najmi
Design Lead at Tech startup
- Accessibility
- Design Leadership
- Visual Design
With over 15 years of design experience, including more than 10 in leadership, I’m the founder of Radikal Studio, an accessibility consulting studio helping teams build inclusive digital products. We provide WCAG compliance audits, accessibility design consultation, and upskilling programs grounded in accessibility and disability fundamentals. I hold a CPACC certification and I’m driven by one mission, Making Accessibility Accessible: helping professionals and organizations embrace global accessibility standards and turn inclusion into practice.
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Bhuvan Saini
Design Manager at Infinix India at Transsion Holdings
- Adobe
- Branding & Identity
- Figma
- Graphic Design
Hi i am Bhuvan saini, A Creative Designer, Brand Identity Developer, and UI/UX Specialist based in New Delhi, India. With over 9 years of experience across leading consumer brands, I bring a unique blend of creativity and technology to design strategies that make businesses stand out. I specialize in brand identity, product design, and user-centric digital experiences-crafting everything from impactful campaigns and packaging to seamless UI/UX systems that improve engagement and conversions. Over the years, I’ve led creative teams, managed product launches, and designed visual stories that connect with audiences and elevate brand visibility.
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Umair Iftikhar
Presales Manager at Octopus Digital
- Design Thinking
- Development
- Product Management
I am an IoT Product expert and specialize in Industrial IoT. Experienced Product Manager and Solution Architect with 15+ years of total experience, including 5 years in the professional IT training and coaching industry. Throughout my career, I have led globally distributed software development teams of up to 25 people, delivering business value for companies ranging from startups to multinational IT companies.
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Tiago Cardoso
Product Design Manager at iFood
- Design Process
- Product Design
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
Hi there! I’m a digital designer based in Brazil. I had the chance to work with products and projects for big brands, building and creating delightful visual interfaces, with an user-centered mindset. I also love photography, especially photo portraits. Currently, I’m working as Design Lead at @ifood – the biggest Food Delivery App in Latin America. I work with design since 2007.
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Gabriela Machado da Silva
Service Designer at Essense
- Design Thinking
- Service Design
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
Hi, I'm Gabi! I work with Human-centered design since 2018, and I have a master's in Customer Experience and Innovation from IE Business School, Madrid. During my working hours, I'm currently a Global Service Designer @ FARFETCH, doing what's never been done for the love of fashion. In my free time: - I study a lot about circular SD - I write about SD (in Portuguese) @ Umani Design - I'm passionate about ceramics! I believe customer-centricity to be the smartest way a business can operate. User research enables assertive decision-making, and service design approaches to challenges with an E2E perspective, leveraging UXR insights to unlock hidden opportunities.
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Priyam Doshi
Founder & Furniture Designer at Name Place Animal Thing - Design Studio
- Branding & Identity
- Furniture Design
- Product Design
I’m a passionate product and furniture designer (read multi-disciplinary) with over 12 years of experience across furniture design, spatial design & e-commerce. As a product, spatial & furniture designer my design motto is to blend creativity, user-centricity and market aspects in order to design products that add value to the customer and increase revenue for businesses. As a brand manager at Pepperfry.com, I was instrumental in creating the brand architecture for premium solid wood brands like Amberville, Mudramark & Bohemiana and developed 1000+ furniture pieces. I was awarded India’s most coveted EDIDA 2018 Award by Elle Decor for a bedroom collection that I designed for FORMA JSW. I am an Alumnus of National Institute of Design, Masters of Design - Lifestyle Accessory Design & D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering - DJSCOE (Mumbai University), Bachelor of Engineering - Production Technology I look forward to work on new design collaborations in diverse spaces and build products/ solutions that are aesthetically refreshing, perfectly meet users’ needs, are intuitive to use and increase business revenue. If you want to connect, talk about design, ideas, concepts, opportunities etc. you can ping me on linkedin or connect with me on +91 9960144136 or email me priyam@nameplaceanimalthing.com
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Eunah Lee
UX Design Manager / Design Lead - AWS Migration Services | MigOpsUX at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Design Thinking
- Product Design
- Sketch
- User Interface
Over the last 15 years my career path has allowed me to absorb many disciplines in the creative industry. Currently, my role in UX involves working on creating world class experiences through user research, prototyping and conducting user testing. I have been involved most of my career in many different industries; as a senior visual designer for government, e-commerce and insurance sites; in addition to user interface design in the enterprise industry. Now, my focus is User Experience with an emphasis in product design. I've worked closely with product designers, product managers, stakeholders, development teams and I enjoy every minute of it. I try to make the overly complex into simple solutions. The best part about being a designer is I can always do things differently and there's no one perfect answer. As a UX Designer at AWS, I solve problems. My thinking is every experience should be as simple and intuitive as possible. I strongly believe that learning never stops and should be the basis of every project. I love solving problems through functional, reliable, usable and pleasurable designs with constant validation through user research and testing. Understanding the context and pain points of the users is key to finding the right solution and ideal experience. Currently, I'm working with an extraordinary group of individuals who have a passion for what we do. Specialties: • Graphic Tools: Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, Experience Design(XD) and InDesign. Microsoft Office Suite. • Prototyping Tools: Figma, Sketch, Axure and Invision • User-Centered Design: Persona Development, Storyboards, Wireframes, Mockups, Prototypes, Usability Testing, Focus Groups, UI & Pixel Specifications • Technical: Familiar with front-end web standards including HTML, Javascript, and CSS
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Debarati Rakshit
Director Product Strategy at icon group
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Marketing Design
- Product Design
- Product Management
I have 5+ years experience in Consulting ranging from New Product Development, Market Research, Business Advisory and Corporate Innovation. I am currently based in Helsinki Area, Finland. I work with Product Companies and Consultancies on New Product Development.
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Arjun S
UX Lead at redBus
- Branding & Identity
- Product Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
Self-taught. 9 Years of experience in digital design. User interface design & Experience Designer, Startup Design Mentor 10 years of experience in digital design. User interface design & User Experience Design.
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Danny Seals
Behaviour, Culture & Experimentation Lead (EX) at Legal & General
- Design Management
- Design Thinking
- Service Design
- Team Building
My experience started off firmly in the learning and development world this created a learning experience digital and in-person. Over time my focus moved from tactical design to strategic thinking and design. My world now falls within transformational economy design Designing better employee experiences, new product innovations, or improving your customer experiences can often take up far too much of your valuable time and resources. That’s why I focus on creating results fast. By being data-informed and running rapid experimentation, I can achieve objectives in record time. I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with a diverse group of organizations from scale-up through to huge global names such as Microsoft, LinkedIn, LEGO, and Novo-Nordisk. My specialty? Stretching your thinking and offering diverse and dynamic ideas for your organization, to achieve meaningful, impactful change through design. I have a non-traditional approach, which ensures innovative solutions to modern challenges. What can I do for you? - Organisational Strategy & Culture Hacking - Learning Development & Culture Capabilities - Rapid Experimentation & Innovation Foresight - Human-Centered Design & Employee Experience Design - Behaviour Change with Experience Design and Design Thinking In fact, one client said: “Working with Danny is like having an extension of your team, you can trust him to get the work done, and push the thinking, but you could also grab a beer with him or ask him to mind your dog”. I don’t advise giving me your dog though, as it’ll probably love me more. Drop me a DM, I would love to have a chat about how we can work together.
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Roshinth Sreekumar
Design Manager at Microsoft
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- Graphic Design
- Information Architecture
Over the past decade, I have played the role of a multi-disciplinary designer building software and customer experience for various industries. The diversity has helped me acquire new skills, adapt to the evolving technologies to build what's next in this ever-changing landscape. Over the past decade, I have played the role of a multi-disciplinary designer building software and customer experience for a variety of industries. The diversity has helped me acquire new skills, adapt to the evolving technologies to build what's next in this ever-changing landscape. Currently, as a lead experience designer, my role is to use design as a business function that creates distinction and value in this highly competitive market. I also manage the Design Labs initiative at the Imaginea to enable innovation and design thinking to bridge multiple business and user-centered gaps. I have been highly assertive in leading diverse cross-function teams and defining strategies for the product and user experience. My hands-on approach to defining product vision, crafting compelling stories and designing seamless, human-centered experiences across complex ecosystems empower me and my team to build a cohesive end to end experience. Most of my work has evolved around ecommerce, Insurance, aviation, and hospitality. I had also been fortunate enough to work for large brands such as Flydubai, Samsung, Agility, Michael Kors, Bestbuy, First bank and Gallagher. My design philosophy is to have enthusiasm, passion, and purpose to create unique experiences. I have always enjoyed building connections and fostering a design-thinking practice for problem-solving. This enthusiasm has led me to conduct workshops and seminars for universities/organizations. I have also enjoyed being a part of the United Nations Volunteers program, where I have collaborated with organizations addressing sustainable development challenges. Biking, long hikes, and sketching are my other favorite things. Specialties: Design Thinking, UX Strategy, User Research, Usability Testing, Personas, User Interviews, Site Maps, Int
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Cris Lindner Kanaan
NX Professor • Facilitar a Criatividade Consciente Humana at Instituto Brasileiro de Neuromarketing e Neuroeconomia
- Design Strategy
- Design Thinking
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
At College, the bachelor degree title was a vision of Second Life, 5 years ahead its creation, latter on Illumna was created, e-learning based on live video/conference, before Hangout and Skype was even created. Innovator, designer orientada a propósitos da Innovati, criadora do Stack Design Thinking, a primeira Designer de Propósitos do livre mercado. Inventora, Designer orientada por propósitos, fundadora da Innovati, criadora do Stack Design Thinking, o raciocínio de alta performance. Facilitadora de inovação dirigida pelo design, foco em neuro-experiência e tecnologias para o desenvolvimento da criatividade consciente. Por meios de uma teoria original epistemológica desenvolvi o Hack do Insight, levando a criatividade ser possível pra todas as mentes que precisam tomar decisões rápidas e ter ideias inovadoras livremente a qualquer momento. Designer bacharelada pelo Mackenzie a 20 anos, 10 anos como Neuro Experience Designer, tendo trabalhado com grandes marcas e projetos de diversos segmentos, como Coca-Cola, Globo, Intel, Bradesco e muitas outras. Designer de Ideias e Designer de Futuro, especializada pela USP em Gestão da Inovação, MIT em Design Thinking e MBA em Branding pela Rio Branco.
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Rahul Bhadoriya
Design Project Manager at Polygon Technology
- Adobe
- Branding & Identity
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
I am a curious, self-taught Visual designer who is energetic in developing Visual language, social good, upholding Designs that work in the real world, encouraging design learning, Creating design products that help create communities.
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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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Joe Cahill
Design Services Manager at Unqork
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- Product Design
- User Experience
For the past 20 years, I have had the pleasure to watch design & user experience evolve from the quick impact we would make in Ads & print to the immersive websites & applications of today. My love for this is deeply engrained in mentoring young designers as well as being an advocate for my craft. I still get excited working hands-on in Sketch, invision along with still enjoying the Adobe Suite.
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Mohamed Ismail
Product Design Lead at du
- User Centered Design
- User Interface
- User Research
- Web Design
Mohamed is a global design leader specializing in building world-class solutions that integrate research and data with human-centered methods to drive a long term vision and near term business impact. Throughout his journey, Ismail has taken on many types of projects, including government, blockchain, fintech, telecommunication, retail, and digital. Being passion-driven and staying tuned to what’s trending led him to learn all about UI and UX, understanding different users journeys and how to make it an enjoyable one for them. He believes combining design thinking with visual principles is the key to delightful user experience.
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Jan Seifert
Lead User Experience Design at UID GmbH
- Design Leadership
- Design Strategy
- Psychology
- User Experience
I am into Experience Design and work at User Interface Design, Germany. As project manager I support teams to create products. As facilitator I guide organisations through the change to create better experiences. Design leadership coach, a believer in the beauty of the invisible, and a Changitor.
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Philip Fierlinger
Co-CEO at Upstock
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
- User Experience
Xero co-founder & former Head of Design. Built Xero into a public company with a multi-billion $ market cap, 500,000+ customers/fans and 1000+ employees worldwide. Now investor and advisor to numerous design led startups. Happy to help with product-market fit, UX design, business strategy.
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Alex Bilstein
Director of UX at Babson Diagnostics
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- User Experience
- User Interface
I'm an experienced UX professional who has been designing, building, and shipping digital solutions for almost twenty years. For the past decade, I've focused on improving the healthcare experience by leading cross functional teams and delivering human-centered solutions at companies ranging from small startups to large enterprises. Now I'm reimagining blood testing with the BetterWay team at Babson Diagnostics and building a community for UX designers working in healthcare at Design with Care.
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Pietro Occiuzzi
Diretor de Produto & Co-Founder at Agenda Edu
- Adobe
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Product Design
O Pietro Occiuzzi é empreendedor do setor da economia criativa, Co-founder e Diretor de design na Startup Agenda Edu, recebendo prêmios como Startup do ano 2019, Latin Design American 2020, Brasil Design Awards 2019, selecionado para a Bienal de design 2019. Formado em Design com MBA em Gestão Estra
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Ravi Jangir
Senior Principal Designer at Cambium Networks
- Industrial Design
- Product Design
- Product Management
- User Centered Design
Ravi has an experience executing design projects from ideation to production in stipulated timelines with emphasis on functional aspects, usability & ergonomics. Passionate about translating emerging technologies into successful products.
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Kirti Ahlawat
Senior Designer at Microsoft
- Design Management
- Interaction Design
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
Hi, I'm Kirti, a Product Designer at Microsoft Customer Voice. I'm interested in the design process, methodologies, and creating accessible solutions. I'm here to volunteer my time to mentor young designers and offer career guidance. The quest to explore my creative side brought me to Design and gave me the freedom to explore new frontiers of thinking and innovation. I find myself at ease while interacting with people and observing my surroundings. Hailing from a Computer Engineering background, the 'how' drives me towards the problem space, whereas design drives my desire to immerse into the 'why'.
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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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Sanjit Bakshi
UX Designer, Chapter Lead at Code for Canada
- Art Direction
- Mobile Development
- Product Design
- Typography
I’ve been blessed to work with amazing collaborators over the years who have always inspired me. Craft and empathy, hard work and integrity are what I try and achieve daily. I help prototype using tools like Invision, Sketch, Framer, and AfterEffects to make conversations possible. Illustrator, Photoshop, and Indesign help breathe life into ideas. HTML, Javascript and CSS help make everything real.
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