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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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Benjamin Shown
Design Director at Blink UX
- Adobe
- Art Direction
- Graphic Design
- Visual Design
I am a creative director and designer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I joined Blink in 2018 as part of an acquisition of Tectonic, an experience design studio where I was creative director since 2013. Previously, I’ve worked on future design concepts at Microsoft’s Envisioning Lab and as an exhibit designer at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. Currently Head of Design at Blink UX and Blink’s Boston studio in Cambridge, MA. He leads a team of multidisciplinary designers, strategists, and researchers on design system and brand projects with ambitious partners including Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, and NASA. Ben is also a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University teaching the design processes. With over a decade of design and creative leadership experience, Ben’s strengths encompass championing a human-centered design process with collaboration at the core, transforming concepts into a product vision, and designing at the delta of interaction, visual, and motion design.
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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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Ryan Mulloy
Head of Experience Design at Allen & Gerritsen
- Architecture
- Creative Direction
- eCommerce
- User Experience
I love my career. For over 20 years, I've worked in NYC and Boston with some of today's biggest brands on cutting-edge omnichannel experiences. Panera, Fidelity, Staples, Southwest Airlines, Dunkin Donuts, Bai, and the list is still growing. Today I'm running Carter Edwards & Company, an experience design firm that helps our clients define, design, and pilot branded experiences and services.
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Eric Atkinson
Director of User Experience at 10up
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- Design Strategy
- Inclusive Design
Eric Atkinson is a strategy, design, and research executive experienced in originating solutions and accelerating innovation for consumer and enterprise products and services. His experience spans over 20 years in agency consulting, commerce, consumer electronics, healthcare, government, technology, and telecommunication sectors. Eric's strengths include leading end-to-end design and strategic insights to achieve business and customer goals. He's a bold and caring leader with a proven record of growing capabilities, driving outcomes, and building inclusive teams and equitable experiences. Eric has international experience as an influential partner, director, advisor, connector, and mentor. In his personal life, Eric's a husband, father, brother, uncle, introvert, artist, writer, avid reader, lifelong learner, mentor, volunteer, speaker, and fledgling hiker/cyclist.
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Jason Luna
Senior Manager, Product Design, Growth at Redfin
- Creative Direction
- User Experience
- User Research
- Visual Design
Offering 20 years of design experience - a unique blend of high level leadership, “hands on” creative and design solutions, growth driven design insight, and practiced talents in leading cross-functional teams to record success. I've built high value partnerships with big brands including Google, Sony, Estée Lauder, Tesla, Def Jam Records, and The Food Network, and I've led small startups to design and product greatness. World Champion Churro Eater 2001 (how many people actually read this stuff?) I believe in design and technology with purpose; I am the catalyst that blends ideas, pushes conceptual thinking and finds the best way to energize a product through stunning design solutions that matter. And quite honestly, all of the above is fluff, and I realize that. I'm pretty sure that I even made up a few words - and while it's all true, these are things I believe about myself. Nothing matters unless it's backed up by years of experience, failure and a few successes here and there. In the past decade I've realized that my accomplishments have become less about the work I'm capable of and more about the people I nurture to become better than I ever was.
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Yonni Mendes
Engineering Manager at The Right Context
- Career Advice
- Team Building
Mentor for first-time tech leaders, new managers starting their first leadership position or a new position in a new company, or senior engineers taking up leadership "with no authority" roles I started my career as a full stack developer and gradually moved into leadership roles. I was often the person helping teams make decisions, resolve friction, and deal with problems that were more about people and structure than technology. Over time, that became the work I cared about most. As a mentor, I focus on practical leadership. That includes supporting engineers who are managing people for the first time, helping senior engineers expand their influence, and working through real situations from day to day work. I care about building habits and processes that serve both the team and the individual. I work best with people who want to be thoughtful about how they lead, who are open to reflection, and who want their leadership style to fit who they are rather than follow a template.
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Gavin Remedios
Manager - Design & Innovation at KPMG
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- Design Strategy
- Design Thinking
Hi,I'm Gavin, my design journey has taken different shapes & form to get where it is today. From calligraphy, apparel art, body painting & interior design to behavioral architecture, UX, and setting up a design practice in a management consulting firm its been a tremendous ride. Hi, I'm Gavin, An alumni from NID with 17+ years of building human centric solutions for my clients Over the years I have have worked across design houses, Idea and incubation cells, COE's and Consulting firms. Set up the UX practice at KPMG India and currently leading the domestic Experience design practice at IBM In my spare time I enjoy teaching and empowering the next generation of designers and builders My work lies at the intersection of Design, People and Technology, looking to see the role design can play in - Building sustainable brands (Business with People and the Planet at the center) - Ensuring an organization delivers a great experience for all its stakeholders (Customer experience, user experience, employee experience & partner experience) - Understanding the underline motives for why we do the things we do. (Human Behaviour) I would love to connect and explore opportunities to collaborate with people who's interest lie in. 1.Sustainability 2.Building products for web 3.0 3.Edtech solutions and platform 4.Design Education for the masses All opinions represented on this platform are my own and not that of any organization I represent
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Colleen Tan
Head of UX, Markets Services at Shopify
- Design Leadership
- Product Design
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
Hi there! I am UX leader scaling design teams that craft new and exciting global features. My not so secret talent is baking and digital illustration. I love watching films and traveling to warm places.
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Roger Nery
Design Director at neryroger.cc
- Design Systems
- Product Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
Roger Nery is a passionate designer with over 15 years of experience crafting tailor-made digital products around the world. Throughout his career, he used design as methodological basis to solve problems, building digital products that fit the user’s needs. He has worked at big companies in Brazil and also at renowned consultancies such as Accenture and McKinsey & Company, where he had the opportunity to create several finance and banking products all over South America. Focused in Product Design; Visual Design; Design Systems; Design Ops; User Interface; User Experience; Prototyping; Microinteractions.
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Shpetim Ujkani
Staff User Experience Designer at Mandiant
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
Product Designer focused on UX/UI and Interaction Design. I've worked with large companies and small startups, helping to tackle complex issues through design thinking, thus producing results to meet business needs. I'm all about creating experiences people love!
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Jefferson Silva
Product Designer at Proz Educação
- Design Thinking
- User Centered Design
- User Interface
- User Research
I am a product designer, working since 2010 as a freelancer and remote mode. I worked on more than 50 projects, between the websites, systems, mobile applications, and training. I like and practice Design Thinking, Design Sprint, and Agile Methods. I love to work at research behavior people projects and design better experiences to define and solve problems.
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Nandini Suthar
User Experience Lead at Salesforce
- Design Systems
- Interaction Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
With about10 years of experience in UX Design, I have worked for small design studios, as well as big enterprise companies. The products catered for Indian/global users in B2C, B2B / Supply chain domain, I believe in the philosophy, “Good design begins when you can empathise with the User well”
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Ankeet Kavaiya
Sr. UX Designer at PayPal
- Branding & Identity
- Figma
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
Product Designer with Masters degree from National Institute of Design My experience as a B2B enterprise UX designer in various organisations from start ups to cross-culture global organisations brings a unique perspective to my work. My most recent product design experience has been leading the UX design effort and managing a design team in a high impact, product focussed environment at a global scale. With 8 + years of experience as a UX Designer I have worked in some great companies like Unacademy, Razorpay, Recko, PayPal to name a few. I believe that conviction and tenacity coupled with collaboration, craftsmanship and great communication are the qualities of a great leader. I provide intuitive solutions that support complex business processes through in-depth market research, partnering with cross-functional teams to design wireframes and test prototypes, and iterate experiences that impact customer engagement.
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Anupriy Kanti
UX Design Consultant at Narratically
- Content Design
- Design Strategy
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
A UX Leader with 15+ years of experience (8+ years of managing teams), having worked on many B2C and B2C products across agencies and two unicorn product companies. Specialise in UX strategy, information architecture, storytelling & content design (along with UX Writing).
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Getulio Lima
Service Designer at Raipp
- Design Process
- Design Strategy
- Design Thinking
- Product Design
Ola, sou o Getulio, moro no estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Sou designer e trabalho com design de jornadas para serviços, pesquisas de UX e design de produtos. Meus últimos projetos foram Para indústria de meios de pagamento, bancos digitais e varejo.
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Pranjal Bhown
Designer II at Microsoft
- Design Thinking
- Illustration
- Mobile Development
- User Centered Design
An engineer turned designer, I have worked with startups and MNCs, currently working with Microsoft as a UX Designer, after completing Masters in Design from NID Bangalore, India. I like to work at the intersection of art, aesthetics, technology, and psychology. The interaction of humans with objects, spaces, and among each other fascinates me. Currently designing experiences for Microsoft Loop, rethinking the future of collaborative working. Looking forward to connect with professionals across industries, domains and skillsets to learn from everyone and give back in the process. Check out my portfolio at www.pranjalbhown.com . I would be glad to connect with you!
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Logan Evasco
Principal Designer & Owner at Logan Evasco Design
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Print Design
I’m a social impact communications designer, community organizer, and environmental activist with 10+ years of experience designing for technology companies, non-profits, community-based organizations, small businesses, and government agencies. I’m a design generalist with tons of experience in print and digital spaces. I believe in the power of creativity and visual communication to make an impact, so I founded ClimateCreative.us, a non-profit project built around the tenants of creative professional development, community empowerment, and environmental justice. I love meeting other eco-creatives, so feel free to reach out and just say hi!
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SHIVIN SAXENA
User Experience Lead & IT Business Integrator (Client: Eli Lilly Japan KK) at Cognizant
- Interaction Design
- Sketch
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
Hello World! I'm a UX Researcher and Designer by trade and a creator at heart. With a Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction and a background in Computer Science, I'm passionate about translating back-end software capabilities into effective, intuitive interfaces that offer meaningful, memorable experiences for end users.
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Scott Dickie
Head of Product Design at Udacity
- Career Advice
- Consulting Advice
- Design Critique
- Design Strategy
I've been in the industry for 16+ years and for the last 7 years have developed, grown and led UX design and research teams for a variety of companies. I'm passionate about building the next generation of designers who are self aware, confident, understand business and strategy.
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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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Michael Bakkes
Creative Director at Exact
- Art Direction
- Creative Direction
- Graphic Design
- User Experience
My goal is to create meaningful brand experiences through design. I’m passionate about finding creative solutions to solve complex challenges, wherever these may lie. As a strategic thinker in terms of design and communication, I pride myself on being an open-minded, result-oriented, hands-on team player. Specialties: Creative direction, concept development, brand experience, design strategy, art direction, design management, communication design, content strategy, high-level relationships, and team building
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Julia Popovici
Talent Acquisition Partner at Superside
- Team Building
I enjoy to support people during their job changing process, as well as companies to set up or improve their recruitment process. Give me a shout if: 🚀 you’re looking to land your next gig and you think I could support you with: + tips for transitioning into a new role or company + recommendations on how to improve your portfolio, resume, or profile (LinkedIn or others) + anything else related to the job seeking & recruitment process + working remotely 🚀 you’re a Founder or Hiring Manager and you think I could support you with: + setting up your recruitment process + selecting candidates + interviewing Currently, I’m a Talent Acquisition Partner at Superside, a fully remote tech-enabled design company 💚 Almost daily I write on LinkedIn about recruitment, so follow me there if you’re curious. On a personal note, I love art events, traveling, walking by the sea, and everything creative.
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Jyoti Thakur
Associate Design Director - Product & Service Design at IBM
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
12+ years of experience in the field of designing an application with a core understanding of the user-centric approach. I love to bring solution to the problem and that's what design is for me. 13+ year’s experience in the IT industry & a Certified Usability Analyst from HFI (Human Factors International, USA). An experienced Usability Analyst with a deep understanding of user experience while designing applications for huge companies in different domains of E-Commerce, Chemicals & Petroleum, Healthcare, Digital Banking, Technology & Travel, Digital Reinvention, Specialties: Experience in creating Information Architecture of the system by including Stakeholder Interviews, CX Journey Mapping, Contextual Inquiry, Card Sorting, Competitive Analysis, Heuristic Evaluations, formal Usability Testing, A/B Testing, Ethnography Research. Expertise in problem-solving through a good understanding of user-centered design principles, qualitative experience in all aspects of creative design including conceptualization, designing, & execution. Facilitating Design Thinking from cross-functional product teams for successful product Innovation & UX Design. Set up an in-house usability lab, building a niche research team through mentoring & training them with the industry matching standards. Produce deep study reports of consumer insights based on observation & insights through different methodologies adopted during the process. Help the organization by building a world-class customer experience by delivering valuable insights through qualitative & quantitative research.
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Neha Paranjpe
Design Strategist at Self Employed
- Branding & Identity
- Design Management
- Product Design
I am a 24-year-old designer from India, curious about finding answers to all the hows, whats and whys around me. I completed my graduation as a product designer from MIT Institute of Design in 2021 with a first class with distinction. Always fascinated by lifestyle products and interiors, post-graduation I worked at a luxury lighting firm named 'Arjun Rathi Design' in Mumbai. My work involved not only design but also led production and installation and assisted in studio management. Apart from this I also trained new joiners and that's where my spark for mentoring started. Today I often cater to calls like - 'I finished my graduation and I'm unable to land my first job' or 'I'm not seeing growth in this job. Should I quit?' I've dealt with these questions myself and I know it's not an easy journey. So I'm here to help you unlock your potential by sharing my experiences of how I cracked the code and got for 7 job positions after applying to over 50. (This list of 7 even includes my dream company 'Ikea'.) Currently working as a freelancer, I can mentor you to figure out the next design thing apt for your profile - be it an undergrad/master or a job switch or elevating your design profile.
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