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    Dan Praise

    Design at Cova Inc.

    • Art Direction
    • Branding & Identity
    • Graphic Design
    • Growth Marketing

    I am an experienced lead designer with a passion for all things design. I specialize in Product, Brand, and communications Design, and I am keen on honing the way people interact with designs to evoke desired outcomes.

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    Choirul Garin

    Senior User Interface and User Experience Designer at Xcidic PTE LTD

    • Design Leadership
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    My career summary so far has worked in some company with various industry and also handle some projects with various products too. I'm having good design and communication skills that makes visual design delivery and user experience conveyed in a perfect way. Also very enthusiastic when working on every design, reliable, responsible, able to lead a team, and work in a team or individually on my own initiative supported also with the ability to adapt and learn quickly.

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    Iordanis Passas

    Creative Director at MyForexFunds

    • Art Direction
    • Graphic Design
    • Illustration
    • Typography

    Experienced Graphic Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the design industry. Skilled in Branding & Identity, Typography and UI design. Strong arts and design professional graduated from University of the Arts London.

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    Vijay Bhuva

    UX/UI Designer at Freelance

    • Graphic Design
    • Mobile Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Hi, I'm Vijay, I have a passion for digital products. I build websites, invent apps, create interfaces and solve problems through interaction design. My strength lies in my hybrid of design and development — I solve problems with a developer’s mind and a designer’s eye.

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    Charles Knight

    Lead Product Designer at Agrimaster - Agribusiness Accounting Software

    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • User Research

    An engaged Digital Designer with a strong focus on strategic decision-making, scalable design solutions, and delivering outstanding customer experiences. I have significant experience leading the delivery of sophisticated solutions across a diverse range of enterprise and consumer environments. An advocate for overcoming complex design challenges through the sharing of knowledge and the introduction of new tools, technology, and processes.

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    Dharmin Panchotiya

    Product Designer at PolyTrade

    • Figma
    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I'm a self-taught UI/UX Designer who takes an enthusiastic and systematic approach to create a hassle-free experience for my clients with proper typography, color selection, visual hierarchy, seamless prototyping, etc.I'm also passionate about learning new business technique and apply them to enhance my client design expirences.I read articles and blogs every day to keep up with the latest design trends.

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    Casey Telenko

    User Experience Manager at Backcountry.com

    • Design Thinking
    • eCommerce
    • Interaction Design
    • User Experience

    As our world becomes more and more digital, I think designers have a huge responsibility to make those systems and experiences feel natural and intuitive. But, through research, empathy and an openness to new learnings and ideas we can get there.

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    Ibrahim Akinpelu

    Senior Product Designer (Digital) at Mumzworld.com

    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Ibrahim is a highly skilled design professional with over ten years of experience. His innovative approach to design has won awards, including a Frontier Innovation award for a pest control and food security solution, and led to the creation of award-winning websites. With a strong background in agile environments and a proven track record across various industries, Olajide is dedicated to delivering exceptional design results. He has worked with top companies such as Cargo.one and Xometry.

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    Brian Gioia

    Freelance Designer at Gioia Design

    • Graphic Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • Web Design

    UI Designer and Developer with experience building large-scale web applications using a front-end and user-focused approach to design that is mission-driven and outcome-focused. Specialties Include User Experience Design, Front-end Development, Experience Design, Large-scale Platform Design, Building Scalable Design Systems, Usability, Accessibility, Information Architecture, User Research, and Usability Testing. Development Skills: HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Javascript, Git, NodeJS, JS Libraries, React, AngularJS, PHP, Front-end Frameworks, Bootstrap, Drupal, WordPress, QA, SEO, Wire-framing, Prototyping, Adobe InDesign, Sketch App, Adobe Creative Suite, Graphic Design, Illustration, and Google Analytics.

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    Jeremy Steiner

    Manager - Brand Identity & User Experience Designer at Creative 26 Studio - Self Employed

    • Art Direction
    • Branding & Identity
    • Color Theory
    • Creative Direction

    Highly accomplished art and design professional with proven experience setting the look and feel of award-winning games and products. Expert in leading the full design and development lifecycle, including creating the visual language, brand, style guides, color, fonts, creative direction, and strategy for a product and target audience. Adds value through strong leadership and management, providing guidance to teams to ensure successful implementation of vision and designs. Highly accomplished art and design professional with proven experience setting the look and feel of award-winning games and products. Expert in leading the full design and development lifecycle, including creating the visual language, brand, style guides, color, fonts, creative direction, and strategy for a product and target audience. Adds value through strong leadership and management, providing guidance to teams to ensure successful implementation of vision and designs. Currently a Senior Artist / Designer / UI/UX / Illustrator / Creative Lead with over seventeen years of experience in the mobile, PC, and console gaming and interactive industries working on titles like Star Wars, Marvel Strike Force, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy for the PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment's Legends of Norrath, and Disney's Club Penguin. . Speciality experience in UI/UX, 2D Art, Illustration and Conceptual Design for the Mobile and Video Games, Marketing and Branding, Print, Traditional Drawing, Painting, Interaction Design and UX Design, Creating low fidelity prototypes in InVisionApp, Wireframing, Strategy and Game Game Design Concepts and Conceits, User Tasks Flow Charts, Conducting Formal and Informal User Test Interviews, Education, Teaching and Mentoring, Information Architecture, Game Design, Visual Development, Storyboards, Character Design, Background Layout and Painter, Graphic Design, Typography, Color Theory, Logo Design, Fonts and Font Design, Color Keys, Animation, Creative Art Direction, Photo Retouching Software experience in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects, Auto Desk Maya, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Git, Perforce,Google Products, Box Sync, Slack, Figma, Adobe XD, InVision Studio App, Sketch, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Keynote, Google Sketchup, iOS/ Android development, Windows XP/ Macintosh OSX

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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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    Jared Hardwick

    Design Director at NerdStuds

    • Art Direction
    • Creative Direction
    • Interaction Design
    • Typography

    I'm a passionate design leader with a purpose to craft memorable brands and create unique digital experiences for mission-focused companies.

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    Brady Sammons

    Principle Product Designer at Salesforce

    • Design Thinking
    • Illustration
    • Mobile Development
    • User Experience

    I have over 9 years of experience in UX design in both mobile and desktop platforms. I am an also a part-time web development instructor at the Academy or Art University. I am fluent is a wide range of design skills. I have the mindset of a designer, the logic of an engineer, and the ability to openly communicate with major product owners, technical teams and managers. I have an endless passion for learning and exploring untested design patterns, interaction models, and emerging technologies. What I enjoy most about UX is the fact that every day poses new challenges. That is one thing that stays consistent in this field, the need to learn. You have to be proactive and passionate about UX in order to provide the best experiences to your users. Often times this comes in the form of breaking habits, learning new patterns, forgetting old patterns, and thinking outside the box. My goal is always to create beautiful interfaces that just fade into the background, letting superb UX and information architecture lead the user. I apply user-centered research & design principles that meet or exceed user expectations. This is achieved by research driven design, business requirements, technical specifications, and best use practices. My design style is clean and intuitive. I have huge passion in creating interactive visual experiences that keep the end user hooked both visually, and interactively. I design rich interfaces that work in harmony with superb UX & information architecture, resulting in highly immersive experiences. Design is as much about behavior and emotion as it is about utility and ease of use. Skills: UI/UX design, LeanUX, Agile, User centered design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, HTML, CSS, PHP, SASS/Less, GIT, Javascript/jQuery, Grunt

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    Anish Talwar

    Design Mentor at Designed.org

    • Design Systems
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • Web Design

    My idea of great UI/UX design combines a user-centered approach with a strong and appealing visual language. I am able to quickly adapt to new challenges. I enjoy getting involved in the whole process, starting from ideation and conceptualizing to designing, prototyping, to testing and shipping the ideas. As a UI/UX designer, I lead processes and teams with meaning, purpose, and intent to connect the dots forward from a problem to solve.

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    Miguel Alvarez

    Senior UX Designer at Cognizant Softvision

    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Currently a product designer with a background in graphic design, user experience, marketing, and user research. Love talking with users and asking lots of questions. My major in engineering lets me understand new techs and platforms as a whole and allows me to work closely with developers, clients, and product managers. I'm a self-taught designer from Venezuela, currently building a portfolio in UI/UX. My long-term goal is to land a job in a UX team overseas so right now I'm forging a path to do so. It has been an interesting journey! If you want to chat about your story I'll be eager to hear it.

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    Jorge Moreno Arozqueta

    Global Design Senior Director Kitchen & Laundry at Whirlpool Corporation

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Strategy
    • Industrial Design
    • Product Design

    Strong ability to leverage global design strategies to the local market, understand global consumer needs, lead and manage high functioning teams, create brand differentiation strategies, and deliver excellent craftsmanship. My passion for working with various personalities has enabled me to be successful as a design thinker and business coach which has resulted in leading award-winning high-performing teams globally. Creative, results-oriented, collaborative, empathetic, and complex problem-solving professional with high interpersonal and communication skills.

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    Menno Cramer

    Director of UX at OutSystems

    • Interaction Design
    • Painting + Art
    • Product Management
    • User Experience

    Trained as Neuroscientist, gone UX designer, lead of team of 11 UX/UI designers. Moved into Product Management, Head of Product roles B2C and B2B. Building Products that bridge the gap between Business needs, Human Behaviour and Design. Now VP of Customer Experience, leading all things UX, UI. Menno is passionate about people and design, more specifically how we as humans interact with designed objects and services. During his PhD in Neuroscience & Design he started to explore the link between designing spaces, websites, apps and products with how we perceive them. From UX designer to leading a team of 11 designers globally, as product manager and as Head of Product. All Menno's roles are at the intersection of behaviour and design. His career is about how we can manage the creation of products and services, whilst accurately predicting the experience they inherently generate.

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    Munwar Khan

    Professor of Practice at Woxsen University

    • 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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    Diane Seaver

    Senior Service Designer, Senior Experience Lead at Philips Design

    • Design Thinking
    • Service Design
    • Sustainable Design
    • User Centered Design

    Across my 10+ years of experience, I have supported multi-million and billion dollar global and national companies as they've undergone radical transformation. In working with these companies to develop superior experiences, I engage cross-functional teams to define and deliver envisioned solutions. Throughout the duration of each project, I assist teams, program areas, and business groups in building the necessary capacity to achieve sustainable postliminary success. Across my 10+ years of experience, I have supported multi-million and billion dollar global or national companies as they've undergone radical transformation. In working with these companies to develop superior service experiences, I engage cross-functional teams to define and deliver envisioned solutions to market. Throughout the duration of each project, I assist teams, program areas, and business groups in building the necessary capacity to achieve sustainable postliminary success. Industry Experience Global | Commercial | Consumer | Healthcare | Social Impact | Service Design | Digital Design | Design for Sustainability | Spatial Design | Exhibit Design | Industrial Design Specialties Business Industry Analysis | Strategic Innovation | Market Opportunity Identification | Platform Development | Customer Experience | Evaluation Design & Analysis | Workshop Development & Facilitation | Project-Team Leadership | Program & Portfolio Management | Knowledge Management | Client Management | Professional Presenting | Concept Ideation & Prototyping | User Research

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    zakir ullah

    Design Leadership Forum Member at InVision

    • Figma
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I am a Product Designer at Company Devgate and I lead the Design chapter. I enjoy problem-solving and creating stunning interfaces that are functional, clean, and always user-friendly. My focus is on making those everyday interactions useful, enjoyable, and accessible. In detail, improving usability, and visual design, and creating a great User Experience.

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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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    Landon Blake

    President & Senior Land Surveyor/Land Planner at Redefined Horizons

    • Cartography (Map Making)

    I'm a land surveyor and cartographer interested in graphic design. I use mostly open source tools for graphic design. I'm handy with Inkscape and Scribus.

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    Paul van Oijen

    Senior Product Designer at #paid

    • Art Direction
    • Branding & Identity
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    Product Designer who's worked across the spectrum of design. Primarily focused on delivering highly accessible, easy-to-use product to make the work of professionals easier and more effective.

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    Catherine Suen

    Product Research Lead at Vodafone Smart Tech

    • Adobe
    • Industrial Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I came with a multi-disciplinary and inquisitive background in product and service design, research and technologies, have managed 20+ international clients for 8+ years as an innovation consultant. I have involved in several different industries help business to answer inevitable questions and solve future challenges with the end-to-end solution with my comprehensive diverse user research mythologies and strategic planning experience

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    Miran Grujic

    UX & UI Designer +Frontend Dev at U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

    • Graphic Design
    • Illustration
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I am a digital product designer based in the Washington DC metropolitan area. I design meaningful experiences for the public. User Experience Designer with 8+ years of experience with diverse high-profile clients. Ambitious and detail-oriented. Proficient at establishing client expectations, listening, and creating success through creative thinking, empathy, and research. Confident with the latest design tools and always looking for open source alternatives. UX Designer | Director of UX | Product Designer | Visual Designer