Our Mentors

Andrea Mancini

Senior Manager UX at UX Lascaux

• Team Building
• User Experience
• User Interface
• User Research

Since I started studying, I have been engaged in the mission of creating satisfying digital journeys. Many years later, as a User Experience Manager, I stand up for the right of people to take advantage and satisfaction from technology. All of them, customers, users, teammates, and colleagues. I'm constantly aiming for win-win solutions. I'm focused on creating the business conditions for interpreting technology through design. In my career, I created many teams from scratch. I set up people, processes, tools, and KPIs to make them efficient and profitable. Some facts: ✔ O'Reilly book author about UX ✔ adplist.org mentor (book here: https://t.ly/lweMz) ✔ A degree in industrial design ✔ ITIL v3 Foundation ✔ PRINCE2 Foundation and Practioner ✔ ScrumAlliance Product Owner® CSPO ✔ Professional Scrum Master I by Scrum.org ✔ Recently I took with success the path to certificate myself as a User Researcher on Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF). Ten courses were completed with a top 10% distinction class.

Deepak Subramanian

Senior Product Designer at AssetPlus

• Design Systems
• Design Thinking
• Interaction Design
• Product Design

Seasoned Senior Product Designer with a penchant for precision and a passion for collaboration Although I have a broad skill set, designing for Mobile Apps is where my heart truly lies, combining functional elegance with user-centric approaches to create solutions that resonate with users and stand out in the digital landscape.

Annalisa Valente

Senior Product Designer at Elastic

• Design Thinking
• Lean Methodologies
• Product Design
• User Experience

I’m Annalisa and I’m a UX/Product Designer based in London. I'm passionate about solving problems in complex domains with the goal of designing systems to improve people's life. In my free time, I love to mentor designers to help them achieve their goals and unlock their potential.

Fransiscus Tobias

Interaction Design Specialist at Accenture

• Product Design

I am an experienced UI/UX designer with over 12 years of experience across diverse industries, including consulting, financial services, and e-commerce. My expertise spans designing user-centered solutions, collaborating with stakeholders, and leveraging emerging technologies to craft intuitive and impactful digital experiences. Throughout my career, I’ve led and mentored teams, fostering growth and continuously pushing the boundaries of user experience design. What I Can Mentor: - UI/UX design expertise: Sharing insights and guidance on user-centered design, usability, wireframing, prototyping, and creating engaging interfaces across various digital platforms. - Emerging technologies: Helping others adapt to new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and machine learning and how to integrate these into design processes. - Consulting industry experience: Mentoring on best practices in delivering design solutions within client-driven environments, balancing business needs with design quality. - Financial sector insights: Advising on designing for the financial services industry, focusing on compliance, security, and creating user-friendly financial tools. - E-commerce design: Sharing strategies on optimizing user experiences for e-commerce platforms, enhancing conversions, and improving customer journeys. - Stakeholder collaboration: Providing guidance on effective communication with stakeholders, ensuring alignment between design, business goals, and user needs.

Chelsea Reyes

Principal Designer/Owner at Pencil & Mouse

• Accessibility
• Design Critique
• Design Process
• Product Design

Hamideh Salami

Product Design Mentor at Designed.org

• Design Leadership
• Portfolio Review
• Product Design
• User Centered Design

Hi, I'm Hamideh with 5 years of professional work experience in the field of product design and user experience design. I'm interested in helping junior designers to grow in their career path. I can help you about ux and product design concepts or about design leadership and team management. I can also review your portfolio too and give you some advice for improve it.

XMing Zhang

Advisor / Consultant at Various Startups

• Accessibility
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• User Experience

I am a product designer and architecture geek. I enjoy solving problems through creative design solutions at work and in life. My background in product design, architecture, and coding provides me with a foundation to create successful products and designs.

Yuriy Zaremba

Sr. Product Design Manager at eBay

• Creative Direction
• Information Architecture
• Product Design
• User Interface

I'm a user experience lead with over 10 years of experience launching well known products, getting startups off the ground and creating immersive digital experiences. I'm currently a senior product designer at Facebook, having previously also worked at Amazon, Microsoft and various design agencies.

Frank Duran

Chief Digital Officer at Boxes and Arrows

• Design Leadership
• Graphic Design
• User Centered Design
• User Experience

A desire to serve people fuels my design of human-centered solutions. Through leading design teams, I’ve found my passion for helping designers fulfill their potential and develop their voice. A desire to serve people fuels my design of human-centered solutions. Through leading design teams, I’ve found my passion for helping designers fulfill their potential and develop their voice. In The Begining Like many designers, creativity was always a part of how I explored the world. I was often drawing, crafting, and building to understand how things worked and the possibilities to make things better. However, I graduated high school before the internet became the dotcom jungle it is today. My interest in art, design, and technology did not provide a clear career path at the time, so I started in the technology field and worked my way back to design as the internet and digital technologies started to emerge. Agency Life After several years in the technology field, I made the leap to creative life in the agency world. I started at MEA Digital where I worked on digital projects for clients like Kyocera, Centurion Boats, Callaway Golf, and Oakley. Soon after, I met my wife, moved to Texas and continued my career at T-3. The creative environment at T-3 was enriching and gave me the opportunity to work on award-winning projects for Dell, JCP, Universal, Taco Bell and Marriott. Mission and Family First As my family grew, I found a new home at USAA. I started as a contract designer and now lead design teams as a Design Director. Working for a Fortune 100 financial services company helped me mature as a designer and leader. The clear and service focused mission of USAA has enabled me and my team to deliver solutions through human-centered design. Continued Growth I continue to grow as a design leader and stay involved with the design community through creative work, mentoring and speaking engagements.

Anna Turos

Product Designer at Shortwave

• Product Design
• User Experience
• User Interface
• User Testing

👋 Hi, I'm Anna Turos, a senior product designer with over a decade of experience crafting exceptional user experiences. I excel at translating user requirements into seamless interfaces, wireframes, and prototypes, consistently exceeding user expectations while aligning design decisions with business goals. As a mentor, I can provide guidance in user research, personas, wireframing, prototyping, simplifying user flows, onboarding experiences, visual design language, and persuasive pitch decks. Revised list of knowledge: - User research techniques and insights - Creating personas, wireframes, and prototypes - Simplifying user flows for optimal usability - Designing effective onboarding experiences - Establishing a strong visual design language and branding guidelines - Crafting cohesive visual elements: color palettes, typography, icons, and illustrations - Designing interactive websites to showcase products - Creating persuasive pitch decks for clients, partners, and fundraising efforts Feel free to reach out to me anytime! I'm here to help and share my knowledge to support your journey.

Mayur Ghoghari

SR UX/UI & Product Designer at Nearcast

• Adobe
• Design Process
• Mobile Design
• Web Design

I am a UX/UI designer (7+ years of work experience ). I help startups and businesses to solve user problems with minimalistic clean design and user-friendly layouts. My passion — design for SaaS, dashboards, charts, tables... I love to work with data-heavy websites and apps and I really know how to do it. Designed products for IoT, gamification, entertainment, travel, healthcare, fintech and many other industries. Hardworking, team player, and problem solver. I can help you with: - Product UX - User flows, wireframes, use cases - UI design (Sketch, Figma, XD) - Low and hi fidelity prototyping, testing, animated interactions - MVP and startup design - Responsive mobile-first HTML/CSS Coding, Pug (Jade), Stylus, SCSS, Bootstrap Theming, Tailwind, ReactJS (within agency) - Design to code process management - Design Systems, guides, design documentation and component libraries. Interested in long-term contracts.

Eswar Varma

Ast Lead UX Designer at Tech Mahindra XDS

• Accessibility
• Design Process
• Inclusive Design
• Product Design

Hello Folks! My name is Eswar, a Product Designer based in Hyderabad. I have been designing digital products for over 5 years across various domains like Telecommunication, Sports, SaaS, and Surveillance. I have worked on a wide range of products from B2B to B2C, web-based to native mobile apps, concept designs scaled-up products, and with startups and multinational organizations. I have worn multiple hats during this journey from being an interaction designer focusing on modules of an application to a product designer focusing on the design, strategy & vision of the entire product. Currently, I'm working as an Ast Lead UX Designer in one of India's largest digital studios (Tech Mahindra XDS). Earlier I was a part of Microsoft's Commerce studio and worked with companies like Verizon, MTN, Crayola, and Rajasthan Royals.

Akshat Tak

Product Manager at Chimple Learning

• Figma
• Game Design
• Graphic Design
• Illustration

Senior Product Designer & Lead Artist at Simple Learning I Akshat Tak, working with Chimple learning as a Product Manager. I have done my 6 years of experience with the org. We make learning games for primary kids, and my responsibility is to make the product design.

John Jackson

Product Design Manager at Red Ventures

• Figma
• Graphic Design
• Mobile Development
• Product Design

I am passionate about product design. I love to identify and solve problems. I design clean interfaces that thoughtfully address problems. My Dribbble profile can be viewed at www.dribbble.com/johnjackson

Matthew Wiard

Lead Product Designer at Amwell

• Branding & Identity
• Graphic Design
• Product Design
• User Interface

Digital designer who enjoys working with clients and companies to meet their business goals with meaningful, usable visual solutions. I specialize in UI/UX, web design, branding, illustration, graphic design and marketing consultation.

Kunal Sangar

Assistant Vice President, RRD GO Creative APAC at RR Donnelley

• Animation
• Creative Direction
• Video Production

Creative service and product Solution Architect with expertise in Graphic Design, Videos, UX & UI design, across mediums and platforms/formats. Worked with Creative agencies, Broadcast companies, Production houses, Product and service companies.

Dave Robson

Senior UX Designer at Ripjar

• Design Systems
• Figma
• User Experience
• User Interface

Hi, I'm Dave and I'm a senior UX designer based on the south coast of the UK. I've been designing for over 20 years and specifically as a product designer for the last 8 years. Over that time I've experienced working in agencies, freelance and in-house, so have gained a broad range of experience and insights. I love helping other designers who are at earlier stages of their careers and am always looking to learn more myself and expand my skillset and knowledge base.

Tim Barkow

Director of Product & Design, Goldstar at TodayTix Group (TTG)

• Design Leadership
• Design Systems
• Enterprise Design

I'm currently Director of Product and Design at TodayTix. I was previously a Sr. Design Principal at Oracle NetSuite, where I work on design systems that help teams build great products. Ex-IBM, uShip, Goldstar. Focused on leadership and how design makes an impact. Skilled in IxD, UX, front-end development.

Piyush Kumar

UX Specialist at Boeing

• Design Systems
• Design Thinking
• Interaction Design
• Product Design

I’m a Product designer, UX Specialist, with 10 years of experience who helps teams integrate and leverage design thinking and user-experience practices for the business. I am looking for exciting projects where i can apply design solution based on information ecology that maps users’s requirement & business goals. I am an experienced and passionate Design Professional with an expertise in the rationalization of concept-to-form. I create high-fidelity collateral and design user experiences with a cohesive point of view across multiple form factors and conditions, while considerate of business stakeholder, user research, brand and teammate influence. I thrive in dynamic, collaborative environments and approach deliverables with a thoughtful, quality-first mindset. What I do is perfect User Interface design for almost every device which offers a display. Mostly these are designs for Web-apps, Websites, and Apps for Apple’s touch devices such as the iPhone and iPad or Google’s Android Platform.

Sandeep Sarate

Lead Product Designer at HCL Technologies: HCL Software Division

• Design Thinking
• Product Design
• User Experience

Extensive background in User Experience Design, Mentoring & Team Building. Experience in User Research, Persona, Journey/Experience Mapping, Information Architecture, Site/Navigation Map, Wireframe, Prototype & User Testing for web & mobile applications. Always looking for challenges & willing to work on new technologies like AR, VR & IoT.

Kavitha Thyagarajan

Director of Product Design at Profit.co

• Design Leadership
• Design Strategy
• Design Thinking
• Product Management

I have more than 15 years of experience as a product designer bringing design led digital transformations to organisations. I have extensive experience in delivering value across cross-functional, multiple stakeholder, and distributed teams. My experiences include building and leading high performing product management teams - responsible for Product vision, business strategy, planning, research, execution, prioritising requirements and leveraging technology and data to support business functions and organisations vision. I have experience in design facilitation, running service design workshops, design thinking, hiring, mentoring and setting up design teams. Specialties: Running workshops on Service design, Design thinking, Product design and strategy, User centered design, Interaction design, Information architecture, User and Market research, print media, Architecture and landscape design.

Bhakti Nair

Creative Manager at Mindtree

• Creative Direction
• Graphic Design
• Illustration

With over 9 years of experience in delivering customer-first designs, I have learned and put into practice the power of designing. I believe that a good design has the power of turning boring data into beautiful information.

ABHIJITH R

Senior Product Designer at Licious

• Design Thinking
• User Centered Design
• User Experience

🎨 Product Designer | 🖥️ UX Enthusiast | ✨ Creative Problem Solver With a passion for crafting exceptional user experiences, I bring 7 years of design expertise to the table. 🚀 My mission is to transform ideas into beautiful, user-centric products that leave a lasting impression. 🖌️ Design Philosopher: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. 🌍 I thrive on turning global problems into elegant solutions.

Atul Bansal

UI UX Designer - Product Designer at Emiza

• Design Process
• Design Systems
• User Centered Design
• User Experience

Hey folks, I’m Atul Bansal, and I am a UI | UX designer on a mission to create amazing digital experiences that people will love. With years of experience under my belt, I've honed my skills in UX/UI design. My journey began in 2018 as a graphic design intern, where I worked on creating visuals that told stories. Over time, I realized design wasn’t just about visuals — it was about problem-solving, understanding people, and creating experiences that feel effortless. That curiosity led me to UX, and since then, I’ve never looked back. With 5+ years of cross-disciplinary experience, I bring together the best of graphic design, interaction design, and UX research to create digital products that aren't just usable — they’re delightful, meaningful, and scalable. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🔍 What I do: ------------- UX Research – I uncover user needs through qualitative and quantitative methods, turning insights into action. Wireframing & Prototyping – I bring structure to ideas, from rough sketches to high-fidelity prototypes. Interaction & Visual Design – I design interfaces that are both intuitive and engaging — minimal fluff, maximum impact. Design Systems – I love bringing order to chaos by building scalable UI systems that ensure consistency and speed.

Mark Hothi

Recruitment Lead (Product & Experience) at Deliveroo

• Art Direction
• Career Advice
• Interaction Design
• Product Design

Hello, I'm an experienced design recruiter that's helped designers find careers at a tech consultancy, digital agencies and a product company. I can offer a recruiting or hiring perspective on: portfolios, CVs, interviewing, job searches, how to hire and build a design team