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Hamed Yahyaei
Service Designer and Design Lead at Scania Group
- Design Leadership
- Design Thinking
- Service Design
- User Centered Design
I am a self-motivated cognitive designer and also a lifelong learner, focusing on Business Transformation via Customer Experience, Innovation, Digitalisation, & Sustainability. Design Thinking is my cup of tea. (IxDA Local Leader+ IDF Europe Manager+ Service Designer & Design Lead at Scania, Sweden) I am a self-motivated designer who loves innovation and sustainability. My passion is gluing design thinking to (Lean & Agile) UX and CX; thus bridging the gap between people and technology, humanization and digitalization, customers and brands, end-users and products or services by applying Human-Centered Design plus Planet-Centered Design via Systems & Design Thinking/Doing methods to improve the experiences! So, I focus on UCD and Sustainability by Design to align business strategies, and goals with customers' and end users' needs to (co-)create a win-win situation.
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Ritesh Malik
Head of Design, Sr. Manager at SPACEWOOD Furnishers, India
- Industrial Design
- Product Design
- Product Development Process
Being an ‘Industrial Designer’ I enjoy stylish and innovative product ideas, my skills are crafted as a Product Designer from National Institute of design (NID) Ahmedabad and Industrial design from Pforzheim University, Germany. For over 15 years I have been involved in the design and development of products in different domains which include Consumer durable, Electronics, Retail display, Exhibition and Spatial design, Packaging design, Home & office furniture etc. My proficiency and skills leads me to develop creative concepts that refine the appearance, function and value of products and beneficial mechanical systems for the users and manufacturers. Currently, I lead a design team. I oversee a portfolio and manage the new product development process throughout its lifecycle, contributing to successful business growth as a design specialist for Home (Bedroom & Living Room), Office Desking and Door categories. I believe that being a creative designer is a responsibility to bring about impactful changes in the society by creating affordable, comfortable and indulging experience. It is a team work wherein highly creative ideas are seeded as an answer for a problem statement. So let’s, collaborate and co-create a wonderful future for us all! I look forward to work on new design collaborations let’s talk and discuss about the design, ideas, concepts, opportunities by connecting on LinkedIn or email malikrite@gmail.com
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Snehal Ghag
UX Lead at PharmEasy
- User Experience
- User Interface
- Visual Design
Customer-obsessed Lead UX designer with 13+ years of experience, I help the consumer business team define the future for PharmEasy experience. My primary focus is to create elegant and customer-focused designs that provide a superior experience working in close collaboration with business, product, technology, and design teams across international locations. Skilled in Design Management, User Experience, Storyboarding, Data Visualisation, Prototyping and sketching. I have worked across different domains (E-commerce, Automation, Human resources, Enterprise, Analytics, and Hospitality) & platforms (Mobile, Web, Desktop)
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Sameer Puri
Principal User Experience at Nagarro
- Design Thinking
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
- User Research
Certified User experience evangelist, design thinker & storyteller UX leader with a background in user research and has provided UX consultation to various companies across the globe. He has almost 2 decades of experience in consulting and design. He is a passionate designer, enjoys helping individuals & wants to give back to the community.
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Andi Beka
Head of UX & Design at simplesurance GmbH
- Branding & Identity
- Design Systems
- Design Thinking
- Product Design
Lead Product Designer @simplesurance #insurtech in Berlin/Germany.
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Rajesh Gandhi
Self-employed at Advait99 design agency
- Adobe
- Product Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
I am a passionate UI/UX designer with 15+ years of creative experience in delivering challenging assignments independently and in team environments. I am determined to provide a highly usable, intuitive, and emotionally engaging user experience on web and mobile platforms while researching new trends and grasping new concepts with ease. Tools and technologies that I use every day are Adobe XD, Sketch, Invision, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript & Jquery.
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Fernanda Vogt
UX & Research Manager at Galena
- Design Thinking
- Service Design
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
Hi! My name is Fernanda :) I have a degree in Design, with a MA in Design Management, having dedicated the last 9 years to service and experience Design, research, and education. Specialist in Design thinking and user-centric solutions, I have worked with a variety of clients such as Instagram, Facebook, Google, Banco Bradesco, BTG+, OdontoPrev, among others, always focusing my work on designing the best experience for users, whether in the construction of their journeys, usability tests, personas or co-creation processes. Currently, I am employed as a UX Researcher at Modus Create, an American consultancy that specializes in digital transformation.
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Rodrigo Manfredi
Head of Design at enjoei.com.br
- Design Leadership
- Design Process
- Product Design
- User Experience
Rodrigo Manfredi is a designer focused on understanding people's needs and business pains and create lasting and valuable solutions to concentrate on goals and profits. In 20 years of experience, he has always explored his passion for digital & product design. He is a versatile and creative professional who always seeks to deliver human-centered design solutions across a range of connected devices throughout an entire customer journey focused on creating delightful experiences and processes to increase sales and brand awareness. Throughout his career, Manfredi has had worked in the largest advertising agencies and retail players in Brazil, which has led him to develop a vision that combines strategy, creativity, and design to grow the business.
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Radka Newton
Academic lead of Help to Grow Programme at Lancaster University Management School
- Design Thinking
- Entrepreneurship
- Service Design
- User Research
I am an education service designer with experience in Higher Education sector. I am passionate about transforming education with design empowering educators to become innovators. I also teach design thinking and innovation in the context of entrepreneurship and management.
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Lakhbir Dhajan
Product Designer at Carers Trust
- Data Visualization
- Graphic Design
- User Centered Design
- User Interface
Hi! I am a Product Designer with 10+ years experience from London. I have worked with FTSE 100, Global Technology consultancy and Creative Agency here in the UK. I worked as a Web Developer in another life!
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Panos Christophides
Senior Product Designer at Netdata, Inc
- Product Design
- Sketch
- User Experience
- User Interface
Front End Web Dev living in Athens,Greece. When not coding, practicing wheelies, powerslides and hillclimbs.
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Dilara GÜL
Product Manager at Delivery Hero
- Ethnography
- Product Management
- User Experience
- Wireframing
Experience Designer I am so excited to be part of this community to contribute to fellows' careers and in the meanwhile UX world. I am already part of a small community with the design research lesson that I have been teaching at the university, besides academically, I have ongoing sector experiences!
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Bibiana Aguero
Sr Vice President - Lead User Experience Designer at Citi
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- Illustration
- Product Design
Digital Product Designer in New York with over 6 years of experience. Trilingual. Fluent in English, Spanish and French. Leads Product Design by driving creative innovation and implementing research to value-added IA/UX deliverables. BFA degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Graphic Design. Minor in Photography. Enthusiastic about Blockchain and the Future of Finance. Adobe Illustrator for Vector. Adobe Illustrator, Invision Studio, Sketch for Mobile UI Design. Adobe InDesign for Layout Design and Interactive PDFs. Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC for Photography Editing & Retouching. Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro for Motion Graphics and Video Editing. Artist. Athlete. Tennis Player. I love branding as well as UI/UX design, which has led me to work on projects such as the Sears Canada rebrand that I made. Check out that project here at
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Soyeon Na
Creative Director at Studio Blanc · Self-employed
- Creative Direction
- Design Strategy
- Illustration
- Storytelling
Soyeon Na has about 10 years of experiences in the media industry. Especially She was an Art Press and Writer in Chosun Media Group, the Most Popular and big News Brand in South Korea. In the former team, She proved her value with increase in News product sales. Welcome to Soyeon's page. Nice to meet you! You are looking at the profile of a professional who has been doing unique visual creatives in the Korean media market for over 10 years now. Check out this text for you. If you spend 10 minutes of your time reading her message, it will give you more than 15 minutes of inspiration. People getting positive and development from her: That's what she wants most. Soyeon is a creative director based in Seoul. She has more than 16 years of experience as a professional designer, illustrator, and artist, from her first role as her assistant manager for the design team. She values teamwork the most, and she believes that all good design is possible from balanced teamwork. People who have worked with her use these keywords to express deep trust: delicate communication, great artwork quality, thorough deadline keeping, flexible coordination, and comfortable project management. Her current major portfolio is centered on print magazines. If you look at the larger forests of this career, you can see her integrated ability. Soyeon's career will be a very special booster for your work: she worked as a section design staff and lighter at the ChosunIlbo, the largest news media group in Korea. She was awarded the Outstanding Employee Award within a year after joining the company to increase newspaper sales through design innovation. Her team members and Chief Editor nominated her as the winner. She has received several other awards. You can also find noteworthy teaching history in her history, such as Adobe's Creator Invitation Lecture. The shopping mall where she planned the design marketing was selected from 50 million won (about $ 50,000) to about 100 million won (about $ 100,000) in a short time by introducing her emotional copywriting and content design that attracted the right target customers. Her core ability to accurately analyze customer needs and understand the human mind is the main engine of performance. She's a kind professional, empowering for a better society and spreading a good culture to people. She is strong in marketing for a common goal, so many people like her storytelling. She is looking for a good team member to make the big picture together. Her diverse experience and proven work skills will be used for you. Become a teammate with her. Your company needs someone who knows how to handle critical client content, including government agencies. The joy and achievements she and her colleagues have shared, her brand quality is now you and me: ours.
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Edwina Olver
Research and Product Partner at Untangld
- Design Thinking
- Product Design
- Service Design
- Team Building
Passionate about curating consumer led insights and strategy to drive business innovation. 10+ yrs experience assisting Australia’s leading players in the FMCG, higher ed, automotive, services and government sectors with product development.
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Rulatico Gonzalez
Principal Product Designer at Oyster Financial, Inc.
- Creative Direction
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- Web Design
I love to empowered teams to create awesome projects that impact great experiences. Build goals connections is my primary tool for inspiring people. Enjoy design systems, tools, and processes. More importantly, I like to improve collaboration and communication; I love community and people. I share knowledge on my YouTube channel, Twitter, and blog posts on Medium. I'm also collaborating at @DribbbleMX meetup and the StartupBus. My Design Principles focus on be empathic to understand the users, creating systematic workflows, not forgetting the creativity and measuring the result.
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Mengxi Zhang
Senior Digital Designer, UX/UI designer at everphone
- Adobe
- Branding & Identity
- Figma
- Visual Design
I am passionate about creating brands, appealing graphics, translate concepts into graphics with meaning, and clear content. I have been working with startups, small businesses, and individuals for 3 years in Berlin which gives me the ability to approach clever design solutions. I am: a designer, confidential, talented, honest, strong, supportive, inspirational, forever-optimistic human being. Why do I choose to become a designer? I began to see design not just as a means of manufacturing delight, but as a powerful tool to improve lives, solve problems, and change everyday experiences. Who I want to become? I had always participated in design jobs in many forms: UX/UI design, brand design, and set design for theater. Admiring the work of designers like: Paula Scher, she introduced me to build a brand with a playful mind. (TED ideas worth spreading) Abbey Lossing, she shows me how to transform art style into illustration. (Instagram) Daniel Scott taught me adobe software, program language is as important as the spoken language. (Skillshare) Want to know me more? Since I found a company with my friend in 2018, I’ve had the opportunity to work not only as a designer but also as a concept creator. It gave me a wide-open mind of how a startup works in Berlin. I’m currently working as a digital designer at an amazing firm “everphone”. Thanks for reading it. Hope meet you soon 👩🏻‍💻
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Chris Homer
Designer at Chris Homer
- Animation
- Design Process
- Motion Design
With over 15 years experience working in London, Venice and Glasgow, I am a motion graphic designer working across broadcast, advertising and live event. My skills are from concept creation (design/storyboarding), through to post production (animation/motion/compositing).
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Ganesh Kailas
Senior UX Researcher at Mathworks
- Product Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
I am a User Experience Researcher with experience in various Qualitative and Quantitative methods. I am persuing my doctoral studies in Immersive Audio experience.
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Luna Chen
Staff Product Designer at Instagram
- Design Management
- Design Systems
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
Luna is an award-winning product designer in tech. Her design work has won over ten awards. She is a KP Design Fellow, certified SCRUM PO and UX specialist by NNG. She has work experience in Enterprise SaaS and E-commerce. She is hands-on but also has experience in leading design teams. As an award-winning multidisciplinary designer, Luna has a real passion for { Design in Tech } + { Design for Good }. She is a systematic thinker, user-centered problem solver, and well-rounded designer with a business and technology background. Her experience and expertise include user experience design, SaaS enterprise design, consumer design, design system, design theory and methodology, lean & agile methodology, goal management, and social innovation. Luna’s work won over 10 design awards including the Young Innovator Award at CHIMEHACK, Best Payments Experience at US Citi Mobile Challenge, International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), and Red Dot Concept Design Awards. Her projects have been shown in tech/design/entrepreneur events such as Solid Conference, Harvard China Forum, US Science and Engineering Festival and Hong Kong Business of Design Week. She is also a certified Scrum Product Owner by Scrum Alliance and a certified UX Specialist in Design Management by Neilson Norman Group. As Chinese Youth Leader, Luna attended the 7th Youth Assembly at United Nations and has been actively leading projects for social good in China, US, and Kenya. Fueled by her passion for solving social problems by design thinking, she was selected to be a KP Design Fellow, O'Reilly Solid Fellow, and Andrew's Roadmap Scholar. She's now enjoying solving complex challenges for mission-driven business to make positive impacts on people and society. She was born and raised in China and has traveled to over 10 countries across 5 continents. Currently, she lives in San Francisco.
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Mohsen Hosseinian
Product UX Designer at GrubTech
- Data Visualization
- Design Systems
- Figma
- Product Design
Hey 👋 I'm Mohsen. A Human-centered, Data-driven Designer with a decade of experience. I create intuitive, aesthetically pleasing, and accessible interfaces by solving complex system-level UX problems.
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Rahul Khatkar
Head of Metaverse & Production at Multiplayr
- Art Direction
- Interaction Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
Application specialist having a work experience of over 10 years in Digital Media & Technology with a proven track record of product representation across South East Asia and the Indian Subcontinent region. Background in ‘Design’ adds to the other skillsets – UI/UX, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Broadcast Graphic Design, Product Evangelizing, Team Management, Solution Selling. The ability to lead and communicate well helps deal effectively with cross-cultural/functional teams resulting in the best outcomes. https://app.assessfirst.com/_/profile/fohpesqa-rahul-singh
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Kelly Howe
Head of Brand + Design at Fyber
- Art Direction
- Branding & Identity
- Creative Direction
- Graphic Design
As the design lead for the Global Marketing team, I engage in both conceptual and tactical work across multiple channels, delivering creative solutions in support of business, Marketing and end user goals. Highly-motivated and hands-on professional with years of expertise in branding, visual design, and art direction. An accomplished leader with success in designing a wide spectrum of marketing and brand projects while leading talented and extremely creative team members in project execution.
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Tommy Dietz
Experience Design Architect at U.S. Bank
- Interaction Design
- Service Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
I’m an outcome-driven designer of human experiences for over 15 years. The last 10+ years, I've focused on the retail vertical at scale, leading, managing, and mentoring designers. Recently, I’ve explored a new vertical, and am learning more about Fintech. My passion is creating engaging experiences that exceed both business and usability objectives through Human-Centered Design (HCD), collaboration, generative research, and validation. I possess a unique combination of expertise in visual design, usability, user experience (UX) design, user research, information architecture, user interface (UI) design, front-end development, and strategy. I also offer the rare ability to communicate complex technical topics and solutions to non-technical audiences through different visual and physical mediums. Having worked in a variety of business industries, markets, and enterprises, I adapt seamlessly to any company culture. I thrive when faced with complicated problems and eagerly welcome experience design challenges. Personal Policy: Please refrain from booking sessions if you seek a referral to my current or any previous employer. Unfortunately, I won't be able to provide such referrals through mentorship sessions. Thank you!
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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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