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    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.

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    William Ntim

    Senior UX Designer at PayPal

    • Art Direction
    • Figma
    • Graphic Design
    • User Experience

    Senior Design and Development Specialist with 9+ years of experience in the management of the complete design process, from conceptualization to delivery of web applications, user interfaces (UI) and experience. I am able to adapt at all phases of a project life-cycle, including requirements gathering and user analysis to information architecture (IA), testing, graphic user interface (GUI) design, and implementation.

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    Samuel Payne

    Head of Content at Google

    • Content Design
    • Design Leadership
    • User Experience

    I work on complex, cross product initiatives at Google. I work directly on product launches, but also run programs to support better design.

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    Jiani Lin

    Sr. Experience Designer at Code and Theory

    • Design Systems
    • Development
    • Product Design
    • Product Management

    I’m a New York–based Senior UX Designer with eight years of consulting experience, currently at Code and Theory. I’ve led end-to-end product design for major global brands—developing UX strategies, building scalable design systems, and delivering award-winning, innovative solutions across both B2B and B2C platforms. I thrive in fast-paced environments where business goals and user needs intersect, and I’ve also coached junior- to mid-level designers, helping them strengthen their craft and confidence. As a mentor, I bring practical experience from leading complex, cross-functional design initiatives—from early discovery and stakeholder alignment to launch and iteration. I can offer guidance on how to navigate ambiguity, collaborate effectively with product managers, developers, and researchers, and manage expectations across clients and leadership teams. Beyond project execution, I’m passionate about helping designers strengthen their design practice, grow strategic thinking, and build confidence in communicating their ideas. I also support mentees in shaping long-term career growth paths—whether transitioning into leadership roles, deepening craft expertise, or building the mindset to thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments.

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    Somesh Patil

    User Experience Designer at Moonraft Innovation Labs

    • Portfolio Review
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • User Research

    I live in Mumbai, currently a User Experience Designer at Jio. I'm fortunate to work with a global team of super-awesome designers and tech guys spread across different locations. Throughout my career of 6+ years in design, I've worked on Product Design user experience to CX & Branding design and I've worked in diverse verticals like Finance, Retail, and Banking. My current role revolves around internal product collaborating with techno-creative teams across geographies, improvising internal processes and methodologies like agile & iterative design processes, feedback, collaboration, and guiding the global design team. I've done my Master of Design From the MIT Institute of Design. Apart from being passionate about design, I immerse myself in playing guitar, Singing, and Reading. Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: https://youtu.be/SUOD94DbFH4

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    Jacqueline Conrad

    Senior Director of User Experience at Oracle

    • Design Management
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • User Research

    I will be happy to give guidance in the following areas: Transitioning to a UX design career from a graphic design career; building a UX practice and team from the ground up; successfully working in a multidisciplinary team; guiding clients in creating great user experiences. I’m an integrator of perspectives, weaving together business, design, content, and engineering. I empower teams to create human-centered experiences.

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    Stéphane Méheux's

    Head of CX & Design at Banese Card

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Management
    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design

    Hello, I´m a French Strategic Designer with 15 years experience in a wide variety of business and design challenges. Along the years, I truly kept the belief that the design purpose has so much to offer to people's lives : Affordable, democratic, useful, pleasant and ludic human experiences in an efficient, evolutive and ethical way, sharing values between people, business and society. That purpose make my vision of good design. I particularly believe on the future of financial services crossed with education, as important vector of empowerment for minority. I hold a Master in Engineering Design Management from the Institut Supérieur de Design (ISD) in France. I have held design strategic positions at creative agencies and consulting firms in France, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Brazil for innovative projects, equally comfortable working on strategic team project than working on my own as a hands. I collaborate with clients in many countries until the implementation on the market with a human centered approach.

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    Faizan Sayani

    Senior UX Designer at Expedite Studio

    • Design Process
    • Design Thinking
    • Figma
    • User Centered Design

    Ideate, Create & Go Live ✅ A Senior UX Designer specializing in Visual Design. Simplicity is my game and I love creating simple but amazing experiences that are captivating, convenient, and practical. I tackle complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible, and easy-to-use designs. In collaboration with other designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers during the design process, I strive to craft a more helpful, robust, and all-around pleasant experience for users.

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    Minh Nguyen

    MPS in UX Design at Maryland Institute College of Art

    • Career Advice
    • Career Transitions
    • Design Critique
    • Design Thinking

    My name is Minh. I'm a product designer with 10 years of experience. I'm taking a gap year from work to focus on my study at the moment. I was with Refinitiv/LSEG in Singapore before my gap year. 3 facts about me: - I studied computing (eCommerce major) but decided to pursue my passion for designing as a career. - I think the process of UX design is similar to that of a detective. - At the moment, I'm also enrolling as a student at Maryland Institute College of Art, MPS in UXD program.

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    Neha Saraswat

    Group Product Design Manager at Intuit

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Management
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I am a designer, architect, and aspiring author. I am deeply interested in knowing what makes ideas work. I jump to any opportunity to discuss and speak about all things design I am deeply interested in knowing what makes ideas work. At the intersection of technology and design, from artificial intelligence to human quirks our world swings, from too much to too little, making sense of what might be the right balance and nurturing ideas that best define them is what I do... Hopelessly romantic, abstraction junckey, storyteller who laughs a little louder...always draped in handloom, handmade. Innovation, Forecasting, Trend Research, cultural insights, Design Strategy, Design Research, Product Semantics, AI products, Software

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    Adebola Ajose

    Creative Director at Digitas Nigeria

    • Art Direction
    • Career Advice
    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design

    I have over 17 years of experience as a designer dealing with traditional and digital designs. I am also passionate about telling the stories of brands through design. Experienced Art Director with a demonstrated history of working in the media production industry. Skilled in Print Management, Photography, Graphics, Product Design, and Logo Design. Strong arts and design professional graduated from YabaTech.

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    Nikola Đorđević Togoev

    Senior Product Designer at Choco Communications

    • Design Critique
    • Portfolio Review
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    Hi, I'm Nikola Togoev, a Lead Product Designer at Choco in Berlin. I have a background in visual arts and have worked as a UI/UX designer for several years. I'm also passionate about theory, sci-fi, and technology, which shaped my design processes, aesthetics and thinking.

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    Gerson Da Silva

    Director of Game Design at Ironhide Game Studio

    • Game design
    • Narrative
    • Project Design
    • Social Impact

    Experienced Lead Game Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the video games industry. Skilled in Game Design, Mobile Games, Level Design, Narrative, and Systems Design. who has been holding game design workshops and talks on game development in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Tierra del Fuego, Bucaramanga, Bogota, and San Pablo. Selected by Google as Mentor for the Indie Game Accelerator 2019 in Singapur.

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    Jason Silver

    Staff Product Designer at ServiceNow

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Thinking
    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design

    I'm passionate about creating experiences that bring benefits to customers and achieve business goals. I can assist you with your design thinking toolkit or how you approach interaction design. Looking forward to helping you grow in your career! Jason is a design leader who thrives at creating experiences that people both love and play a vital role in their day to day life. He has over 20 years of experience crafting products and services at large companies including Intuit, Microsoft and PayPal as well as in smaller companies and startups. He enjoys teaching teams about design thinking and building empathy in order to create meaningful and impactful experiences.

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    Kelli Johannessen

    UX Design Manager at Indeed.com

    • Graphic Design
    • Interaction Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Former individual contributor turned manager. Day to day I oversee design on 6 projects and collaborate with three awesome designers. I'm on Indeed's Incubator team. My projects operate lean - brainstorming, designing, testing & launching MVPs in the course of a quarter to validate new ideas.

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    José Torre

    Senior Staff Product Designer at Shopify

    • Branding & Identity
    • Illustration
    • Motion Design
    • User Experience

    UX with special focus on Visual Design, Illustration & Motion Design. I love solving problems with design and have been doing it for more than 10 years. I love solving problems with design and I’m lucky to have been doing it for over 15 years.

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    Audrey Charneux

    User Experience Lead at Neeka Health

    • Career Transitions
    • Psychology
    • User Experience

    Hi there! I am a product designer and UX researcher working in the healthcare/tech industry. I've transitioned to UX from psychology and I'd be happy to help folks you are looking to take this leap, transitioning and interested in working in UX design.

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    Eriola Kapaj

    Freelance Designer at Freelance

    • Adobe
    • Illustration
    • Sketch
    • Typography

    Hello! I am Eriola Kapaj. Interactive designer crafting website designs with user-experience approach. As a human, my goal is to achieve the most I can with this life to be of use. As a designer, my mission is to connect with people using my creativity and to make a positive impact on the lives of others. Currently, I am a web designer and I am here to share my knowledge as well as learn from you! :)

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    David Schap

    Lead UX Designer at EXPRESS

    • UI Development
    • User Research
    • Visual Design

    I’m a multi-disciplined creative professional with over 15 years of industry experience working to develop software through effective visual communication and clarity

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    Eva Soroniati

    UX Analyst at ATCOM S.A.

    • Design Systems
    • Industrial Design
    • Product Design

    I graduated from the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering (300ECTS) of the University of Aegean and I completed my last semester at the Master Program Design for Interaction in Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft as an (erasmus) exchange student.

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    Paula Reid

    Senior content designer at Bumble

    • Accessibility
    • Content Design
    • Design Strategy
    • Figma

    I'm a senior content designer, with a background in a variety of products. I'm based in London, UK but I'm from Toronto, Canada. I love that content design has become much more than just words, and I enjoy being able to contribute in many ways. Outside of that, I love to travel, try new restaurants, and go to the gym.

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    Princess Oviawe

    Product Designer at Chimoney

    • Accessibility
    • Figma
    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design

    Princess Oviawe is a product designer with over 4 years of experience working mostly at start-ups in the health and most recently in the fin-tech sectors, during this time she has been a key contributor to the design and implementation of successful web and mobile applications. She also has notable experience collaborating and leading product teams to ship products successfully.

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    Dinesh Kumar

    Senior Product Designer at Nova Benefits

    • Career Advice
    • Design Critique
    • Design Systems
    • Design Thinking

    A result oriented individual focused on usable designs. Connect with me if you need help with experience design guidance.

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    Karan Kapoor

    Design Lead at Aphelia Innovations

    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Research

    I am a self taught designer with interests in photography, sports and design. I switched from a software engineering job to design as it was a long time goal and a dream to do so.

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    Manvi Singhwal

    Product Designer at ClassCover

    • Accessibility
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Hola! I’m Manvi, An engineer turned self-taught designer. Over the last 2 years, I have been focused on understanding user problems and designing products that are inclusive, and solve user problems. I'm committed to sharing my knowledge of design thinking methodologies and user-centered design principles to help you with the challenges you're trying to solve. As your mentor, I can help you with UX Design
, Data-Driven Design
, User Research, Inclusive Design
- and much, much more.