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Joel Barr
UX Researcher at VMware
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
- User Research
Built the qualitative capability for United Healthcare. Led teams of junior researchers. Led research on supply chain and merchandising for Lowe's Home Improvement.
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Beatriz Varella
Head of Product at MaaS Global Ltd
- Design Leadership
- Design Thinking
- Product Management
- User Experience
I'm Bia Varella, a Product Leader with a heart for connecting and becoming inspired by people. Currently working as Head of Product & UX at MaaS Global, focused on transforming urban mobility. For the past 15 years, I had the opportunity to collaborate with many talented people, from leading global organizations to entrepreneurs aiming to build and launch their ventures. My expertise includes Product Management, Business Innovation, and Strategic Design. By understanding, envisioning, and leading design, product, and tech teams, I work to deliver solutions from concept to execution in a fast-paced, agile environment.
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Phil Golub
Vice President, Head of User Experience at Symphony Talent
- eCommerce
- Product Design
- Product Management
- Service Design
I am a seasoned UX leader who thrives at the intersection of empathy, capability, and delivery, where customer relationships are positively transformed and value is unlocked at speed and scale, and with precision. A designer at heart, I partner closely with researchers, engineers, and product managers to create systems at scale, with human-centered thinking at the core. I believe in the combined power of experience, strategy, and technology to conceive and construct experiences, services, and content that create measurable value for brands, transform how companies interact with their customers, and improve people’s lives.
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Ugo Okafor
Senior Product Designer at eConsult Health
- Design Process
- Design Systems
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
Ugo is a digital product designer with over 7 years of experience designing solutions across the fintech, e-commerce, banking, Med-tech, utilities, and charity industries. He is focused on visual identity development, interaction design, cross-platform deployment, low/no code design, and community development. A proven team player, design mentor, team manager, and design thinking advocate who enjoys breaking down complex problems and training the next generation of designers. Ugo has also co-founded a few businesses helping over 30,000 customers monthly easily pay their utility bills as well as accept payments easily in Nigeria. As far as work goes, he has helped companies like eConsult Health (UK), Senior Internet (UK), Deep Consulting Solutions (USA), FirstBank (Nigeria), and MTN (Congo) build better interactions with their users. He holds a Master's degree in Interaction Design from Sheffield Hallam University as well as a Bachelors degree in Economics which he claims helps him understand business’ commercial needs. As a self-taught designer, he has a passion for continuous learning and facilitating design education in diverse communities - born from the frustrations of learning without having access to mentors. He aims to do democratise design learning, whether it's speaking on design, teaching budding designers, or collaborating with others toward their goals outside of my day job.
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Emmanuel Ekpenyong
User Experience Designer at Kulprice
- Figma
- Mobile Development
- Product Design
- Product Development Process
Am Emmanuel I have been designing for 2 years now the path has not been easy but it’s interesting. As a designer my main focus is on the usability of my product, User-centric design
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Danny Shin
QA at XL8.ai
- Illustration
- Interaction Design
- Mobile Development
- Product Design
As a product manager & designer, I believe that success is found in meeting people at their greatest point of need through intuitive, smart, and visually beautiful products. I’m passionate about creating, building, and envisioning products that genuinely connect with and empower people.
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David Keiser
Senior UI/UX Designer at KeiserMedia
- Creative Direction
- Interaction Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
UI/UX Designer and founder of KeiserMedia located in Recklinghausen, Germany. I've been designing digital products, and web and mobile interfaces for about 8+ years. I believe in people over profit working with the right individuals and investing in personal growth is essential.
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David Hoogland
Brand Strategist and Designer at Two-Spirits
- User Experience
- User Interface
- Visual Design
David is a brand, ux, and visual designer. Over the last 12 years he teamed-up with 100+ startups and scale-ups and led (digital) design teams within corporates such as Nike, Rabobank, KPN, Relx (Reed Elsevier), Erasmus, Tony's Chocolonely, Dierenbescherming, NOS, ID&T. Running a startup / creative studio for over 6 years working with a very diverse set of clients David has aquired a rather unique set of skills. This allows him to easily identify strategic opportunities and quickly turn them into tangible design deliverables. His experience running a business, working freelance, working with and within agencies, and leading corporate projects as a brand, ux, and visual designer and being an experienced startup coach is a valuable asset to any design team.
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Aditya Kolhatkar
User Experience Design Expert at Dassault Systèmes
- Portfolio Review
- User Experience
- User Interface
Hi there, I'm Aditya Kolhatkar! Currently, I work as a User Experience Designer at Dassault Systèmes. I'm focused on creating thoughtful user experiences with a combination of design, business, and technology. For over six years, I have helped ambitious clients around the world to craft rich digital experiences using my expertise in research, strategy, information architecture, and business design. I am deeply passionate about human psychology, analysing complex systems and the role of design in emerging technology. I can share my perspective on getting started as a UX/UI designer, transitioning into UX from another role, potential career paths as a UX designer, portfolio creation + review, product strategy and literally anything along these lines! Apart from design, I enjoy discussing art & illustrations, books, personal finance, investing, Web 3.0 blockchain, fitness & nutrition, sports and music.
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Harekrushna Panda
Senior Consultant at Capgemini
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
- User Research
Over 11+ years of experience in User-Centered Design, UX, Information Architect, and Usability research. I have worked in multiple domains across Information Technology, Healthcare (EMR), Media, Supply chain management (SCM), and Industrial Development. I have taken HFI, Design incubator training.
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Prasad Neurgaonkar
User Experience Architect (Staff 2 Designer) at Broadcom
- Career Advice
- Design Leadership
- Design Strategy
- Product Design
With over 20+ yrs of experience in the IT design industry, currently working as a User Experience Architect for SMO (Service Management and Orchestration) - TELCO Cloud @ Broadcom
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Moneim Saad
UX Designer at Luxoft
- Product Design
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
UX Session Lead @Udacity, Nanodegree UX designer, UX Writer. I love conducting sprints & user research. I use human psychology science to help my clients reach more people.
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Dallan Isom
Product Designer at MTN OPS
- Art Direction
- Creative Direction
- Graphic Design
- Industrial Design
I am a creative professional with a deep understanding of human values and design processes. I specialize in building multi-sensory experiences that connect people to brands, inspire action, and drive solutions to market. I balance my creative abilities with strategic business plans to reach exceptional levels of excellence and enjoy working collaboratively with others to bring bold ideas to life.
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Allan Melo
Senior Software Engineer at EPAM Anywhere
- Design Thinking
- User Experience
It could be a star. A house in the middle of nowhere. A distress signal. The start of a forest fire. That little speck of light can change everything, I know that. And that's what I've been talking about all this time... about how a single LED blinking in your screen, at the right time, can change a story and unfold a whole new experience. My name is Allan, and for 16 years I have been using technologies with this vision. Part of my journey was discovering how we can use it in creative ways, and telling these stories to others. Translating "tech" to humans. Teaching how to use. Explaining that a moving light, or a cell phone, only becomes magical if it is used by us; that there is no purpose in it without us. So I also explored the use of these technologies to create new things. Projectors, buttons, screens, sensors, data, interacting behind the scenes to enhance people and places, and as a medium to beautify, enchant, or create new experiences. I love to code, especially because of how easy is to use this 'ability' to create new things. So, yes, I'm a developer. Also a designer. And also a maker. I have been exploring the field of automation and interactions with sensors and chatbots for a long time, programming with TypeScript, C, C# and Python, and using technologies and libraries such as Node.js, React, Unity, Arduino, Google Assistant, Alexa, Dialogflow, IBM Watson and Processing. And recently I have also discovered how amazing is the DevOps 'world', working hard with Docker, Terraform, Vagrant & other tools to keep things easier to maintain.
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Lovish Bandwal
Product Designer at Betterplace
- Product Design
- User Experience
- User Research
I am a serial problem solver with experience in designing products in the HRMS, Fintech, Healthcare, Music. As a designer, I bring together user's needs and business goals to create holistic solutions. I have mentored 30+ mentees to help them in portfolio, Job findings, UX research and UX design.
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Tafadzwa Martin Gutsa
Independent Design Professional at Freelance
- Graphic Design
- Industrial Design
- Product Design
- User Experience
A passionate and ambitious independent designer, my work spans multiple disciplines that include Graphic Design, Product Design, Brand Development, and UX Design. I am a strong proponent of Design Thinking and Lean product development methodologies, with over 10 years of experience.
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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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Anneliene Hay
Digital Designer at MO Agency
- Graphic Design
- Product Design
- User Experience
- Visual Design
My name is Anneliene Hay, but most people just call me Anne. I graduated from the Tshwane University of Technology in 2015 and hold a BTech degree in graphic design. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a creative. I’m at my happiest with a pencil, camera or stylus in my hand. Since 2015, I’ve worked as a graphic designer for a couple of agencies around Pretoria and Johannesburg. My responsibilities in these roles included designing for both screen and print. I’ve designed product packaging, websites and everything in between. Lately, however, I’ve been itching to expand my horizons a bit and I’ve got my sights set on UX design! I’m excited at the prospect of exploring skills surrounding user research, testing and design iteration that I can glean from a career in UX design. With any luck, this should also aid greatly in making myself a better UI designer in the process! Check out my portfolio on https://www.anneforshort.xyz/Hi! My name is Anneliene Hay, but most people just call me Anne. I graduated from the Tshwane University of Technology in 2015 and hold a BTech degree in graphic design. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a creative. I’m at my happiest with a pencil, camera or stylus in my hand. Since 2015, I’ve worked as a graphic designer for a couple of agencies around Pretoria and Johannesburg. My responsibilities in these roles included designing for both screen and print. I’ve designed product packaging, websites and everything in between. Lately, however, I’ve been itching to expand my horizons a bit and I’ve got my sights set on UX design! I’m excited at the prospect of exploring skills surrounding user research, testing and design iteration that I can glean from a career in UX design. With any luck, this should also aid greatly in making myself a better UI designer in the process! Check out my portfolio on https://www.anneforshort.xyz/
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Lisa Maione
Assistant Professor at Kansas City Art Institute
- Data Visualization
- Graphic Design
- Typography
- Visual Design
Enthusiastic to support creative practices of all kinds. Experience as a designer in small and medium-sized studios, as an art director in magazines and editorial, as a collaborator with architects and scientists, and as a design educator since 2008. Research in graphic design history & typography. With over 18 years of design industry experience, clients have ranged from architects to artists, community organizations to academics, filmmakers, photographers, publishers, museums, entrepreneurs, writers and scholars. I am an Associate Professor of Graphic Kansas City Art Institute where I combine my professional design experience with research collaborations. TEACHING: Since 2008, I have taught design courses at schools including Parsons School of Design at The New School, CUNY Queens College (NYC), Oklahoma State University and Kansas City Art Institute. Focus on typography, design history, and user experience. STUDIO: For Instance is my design practice. Independently and collaboratively with other designers, For Instance designs and builds visuals, spaces, tools, presentations and interactions to engage audiences at all scales of communication and distribution. For Instance is engaged with design projects, proposals and speculations in the arts, architecture, media, sciences, education and humanities. http://work.forinstance.org/
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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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Jef Davis
UX Group Director: Design + Research at Kydon Group
- Creative Direction
- Human Computer Interaction
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
I Explore and Create the Conditions of Possibility... Competitive international user experience researcher, strategist, and pivotal design thinker. Inventive talent for the innovation and re-imagination of our cultural and digital artifacts, signifiers, and services. Curating them with a purposeful approachability and function that cultivates communal relevance imbued with personal meaning. Having shipped products and led innovation projects for many companies big and small, my body of work spans multiple domains, business goals, user types, screen sizes, and other deliverable types.
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Joe Letchford
Freelance Graphic Designer at Joe Letchford Design
- Branding & Identity
- Career Advice
- Graphic Design
- Print Design
Hello! I’m a freelance Visual Designer based in Richmond, Virginia. I specialize in visual and interactive projects for all types of clients across art, tech, education, & advertising. At this time I am working as the Lead Designer for Dispatches Magazine currently on its 3rd issue. Previously, I worked in-house at Robinhood, Dropbox, & Google Brand Studio focusing on various identity and interactive projects. If you’re interested in discussing a potential project, please reach out here or via email.
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Mohammed Salahuddin
Marketing Lead at Red Bangle
- Adobe
- Art Direction
- Creative Direction
- Graphic Design
For the better part of the last decade, I have built my career by mentoring teams of writers, designers and marketeers - playing the Creative Director role. You can talk to me about Brand Storytelling, Marketing, Conversion Copywriting, Design disciplines, Music, Horology, Sneaker Culture & Biryani. Impassioned Writer, Design Geek and Creative Debugger.
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Hilde Cronjé
Senior Manager: Group Design Systems at Standard Bank Group
- Design Systems
- Product Design
- Visual Design
I help build design systems with my team in the financial services industry. Based in South Africa
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Danny Keane
Director of Design at Titan
- Design Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Team Building
For over a decade, I have helped establish, scale and maintain high-performing teams that harmoniously combine business and user needs to deliver best-in-class experiences. I have a proven track record for going above and beyond to create environments that foster trust and psychological safety. I strive hard to provide high-performing teams with the support and autonomy to produce their best work. As an active advisor, I offer guidance to teams and individuals on building world-class teams and experiences. I possess an x-shaped skillset meticulously crafted through years of professional exploration operating as an individual contributor and as a leader at various scales. I also have a fruitful portfolio of first-hand experience partnering with executives to help scale companies from zero to one.
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