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Umair Iftikhar
Presales Manager at Octopus Digital
- Design Thinking
- Development
- Product Management
I am an IoT Product expert and specialize in Industrial IoT. Experienced Product Manager and Solution Architect with 15+ years of total experience, including 5 years in the professional IT training and coaching industry. Throughout my career, I have led globally distributed software development teams of up to 25 people, delivering business value for companies ranging from startups to multinational IT companies.
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Felipe Rosas
Product Designer at Catalog
- Design Leadership
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Product Design
Full Stack Human Being. I'm all about give value to the users to create profitable digital products. 💻 Adobe XD lover. I have worked with big clients like: Subway, Miller Lite, Avianca. More than 6 years of experience in design Felipe is a product designer focused on creating meaningful applications and digital products through data-driven experiences. A lot of his experience has been working with products related to AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Data Visualization. He has a certification in information Design for Visual Storytelling from Parsons School of Design; and and he is a candidate for a Master's degree in Information Design and Data Visualization from Barcelona School of Design and Engineering ELISAVA. He is currently a Mentor of the UX academy in Design Lab (trydesignlab.com) and owns a Youtube Channel with more than 16k views. Felipe has more than 7 years of experience working in Design, from big brands such as Subway, American Express, Global Credit Data, RE/MAX, to Startups like Datagran.io or OurStory.ai and different venture capital companies. Felipe is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.
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Tim Colica
Senior User Experience Designer at Minderoo Foundation
- Design Thinking
- Service Design
- User Experience
- Visual Design
I’m a professional and creative UX / UI Engineer. Creative, passionate about simple, useful, and insightful design. For the past 15+ years helping business-building digital products. What drives me is common sense and helping people achieve their goals. I’m a professional and creative product UX/UI Designer, with over 27 years of experience in the IT world. My expertise ranges from consulting, stakeholder management, and user research to design, front-end development and user testing. My aim is to empathize with users, solve their problems, and design solutions in a the smarter way by following the User-Centered Design Process.
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Michelle Kang
Product Designer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
- Career Advice
- Illustration
- Sketch
- User Experience
Interested in designing beautiful and meaningful experiences that help people reach their goals. I work on projects through an end-to-end design process that includes user research, wireframing, interaction design, visual design, and user testing. The projects have spanned desktop and mobile applications for enterprise and consumer markets. Interested in designing beautiful and meaningful experiences that help people reach their goals. I work on projects through an end-to-end user experience design process that includes user research, wireframing, interaction design, visual design, and user testing. The projects have spanned desktop and mobile applications for enterprise and consumer markets. Tools: Figma, HTML/CSS, Sketch, Principle, InVision, Marvel, Illustrator, Photoshop, Balsamiq https://dribbble.com/mikang I can provide a more extensive portfolio upon request.
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Kellie Rogers
Lead UX Designer at Aktify
- Design Critique
- Interaction Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
I’m a product and UX designer with a decade of experience creating end-to-end experiences for B2B and consumer products across Fortune 500s and startups. I specialize in turning complex systems into intuitive, user-centered solutions across healthcare, cloud, travel, streaming, and payments. Grounded in research, systems thinking, and data-driven decisions, I partner with product and engineering to drive measurable impact and elevate design practices.
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Lana Kropyvna
Strategy and Design Leader at Accenture
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- eCommerce
- User Centered Design
Strategy and design leader with 12 years of experience and a proven track record of employing and leading global in-house team, crafting high-performing work that reaches mass audiences. I have created innovative, cross-platform UX strategies and targeted campaigns that have resulted in up to +40% conversion rates uplift and 15:1 ROI for brands such as Adidas, L'Oréal, M&S and Philips. Passionate about interaction, behaviour science and technology, I identify opportunities through research, strategic insights and creative thinking to find ways that improve the user experience via a human-centred design approach.
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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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John McCabe
Design Manager, AI + UX at IBM
- Architecture
- Design Leadership
- Industrial Design
- Service Design
I have led award-winning product design teams for enterprise, academic, and startup organizations for 20 years. During these two decades, my diverse leadership roles have provided me the privilege to drive transformation where technology, creativity, and society converge. I have enabled organizational change through meshing the physical and digital, blending the raw and the refined, and catalyzing inclusive cultures through meaningful discourse and equitable experiences. I would love to chat and learn how we can learn from one another. 🤘 Designing the future through atoms, data, and pixels to nurture value and infuse delight. Physical + Digital + Service
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Sean McLeary
Head of Product at TrustLayer
- Design Management
- Design Systems
- User Experience
- User Interface
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Jiri Mocicka
Founding Member at 9.Ventures
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- DesignOps
- User Experience
Product Design Director at http://givetm.co Contributor at http://designatscale.co Writer at https://medium.com/design-at-scale
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Karl Randay
Design Mentor at Designed.org
- Art Direction
- Graphic Design
- Typography
- User Experience
I’m a Product Designer & Human Centred Design advocate, currently disguised as Head of Design for Customer Experience Studio 383. With a broad client experience ranging from fashion and global leisure brands to private healthcare and the energy sector, along with over 20 years of experience and a deep understanding of designing for human behavior, I’ve become fairly passionate about crafting authentic experiences, services, and products that make a genuine difference for real people. I'm highly driven and work in a field that I am extremely passionate about, where I strive to understand my clients' business thoroughly so that I can help them communicate using technology as an aid. I understand how to make the best use of technology when approaching design solutions, applying fundamental design principles to everything to ensure a high quality of output and ultimately a greater benefit to the client. I also know when to step away from technology and focus on the human experience.
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Chiranjeet Banerjee
Experience Design Manager at GrowthOps
- Product Design
- User Experience
- User Research
He is a self-taught designer with a background in engineering. His objective has always been to enhance human performance and digital experiences and make technologies more humane. He has spent the past 10+ years working with industry titans. His approach to providing individualized solutions has benefited C-Suite executives and Product Leaders. Changing people's lives and impacting people globally fascinates him. He is here to help aspiring designers and design enthusiasts continue their design journey.
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Giovanni Passarin
Owner at Valuedrivenconsultant.com
- Career Advice
- Career Transitions
- Storytelling
• Coach for Creative Professionals • As a coach, I offer emotional and professional retraining through one's Personal Branding. It's a dual-track journey where "doing" parallels "being". When we decide it's time to change jobs or find work, improve our career or simply take a professional step forward, in most cases we look at doing: creating a new CV, LinkedIn profile, Portfolio, website or social media, looking for new contacts by expanding our network. Often though, we don't listen to ourselves, we don't account for being, for how we are emotionally in that particular situation. How can we truly honor our values? Through a dialogue made of focused questions and simple inner listening, we can generate a series of constructive emotions, between the values of our inner Leader and the actions to be taken. In this way we will be so rooted in the vision of what is possible, that we will be able to connect the action to our inner self and create a new rich and fulfilling path.
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Erico Fileno
Professor & Chair of Human-Centered Design Program at Positivo University
- Design Leadership
- Design Thinking
- Interaction Design
- Service Design
I've been designing software, websites, appliances, devices, products, and services that are used by millions of people every day around the world. In addition, I've been working with user research, design thinking, UX strategy service design besides interaction design for global brands since 1995. I have been involved in digital business since the early 1990s and I have been designing software, websites, appliances, technological devices, and services that are used by millions of people every day around the world. In addiction, since that period I have worked with user research with mix methods, strategic design, consumer experience, service design besides interaction design for global brands. In the early 2000's, I was the pioneer for igniting Service Design, Design Thinking, UX, and Interaction Design movements in Latin America. I am a co-founder of Interaction Latin America Conference of IxDA (Interaction Design Association). Currently I’m leading Service Design Network initiative at the local market. Furthermore, since 2007, I'm the trailblazer lecturer of design thinking, service design and interaction design in Brazil. I co-founded the Faber-Ludens Institute, the first reference center on Interaction Design and UX (User Experience) in Brazil. I also launched the postgraduate program on Human-Centered Design at Positivo University, with two courses: Interaction Design and Service Design - this last one pioneer in Latin America.
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Abhinav Paitandy
Product Designer at H&M
- Design Thinking
- Product Design
- User Centered Design
- User Experience
Hi all, Introducing Abhinav Paitandy. Abhinav hails from New Delhi, India and is a Product Design professional focused on User Experience, Product Design & Product Management of consumer and business applications. He is particularly interested in user research, user experience, product design, and product management. He is always interested in multi-platform products capable of impacting our everyday lives. Academically, he has pursued a Bachelor's in Sciences with a major in Computer Sciences from the University of Delhi, coupled with User Experience Design and Product Management certifications. He likes to work with varied products, explore design interpretation across domains, and help teams navigate the dynamic UX and Interaction design ecosystem in their context. Abhinav is motivated by supporting new designers and product managers from different backgrounds. Having endured a few challenges in shaping his career, he started by selecting a study pathway in college to build a career in the UX industry and find traction. He believes it's easy to be passionate about something meaningful, but it's vital to him because of his background and roots; this helps him maintain focus and strive for improvement and growth. When not pushing pixels or bullet points, he prefers exploring local cuisines, experimenting with food, reading or watching works of fiction, and following the F1 leaderboard.
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Tushar Debnath
Senior Product Designer at Revolut
- Design Systems
- Product Design
- Typography
- User Experience
Product Designer, Master Prototyper I am Tushar Debnath, a product designer & design technologist living in New Delhi. Currently, I am building products, design systems, and internal design tools at Zomato
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Satyam Tiwari
Senior Product Designer at Omah
- Product Design
- User Experience
I'm a software designer living in India 👨🏻‍💻🌧️ I've designed features and experiences for many websites and online tools for a variety of customers 🌈✨ I love to debate, mentor, and learn from my peers 👩🏽‍🏫👩🏼‍⚖️ And I'd love to share my experience to help others get started or accelerate in my business 🚀
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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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Cynthia Myung
Lead UX/UI Designer at NearForm
- Design Management
- Graphic Design
- User Experience
- User Interface
I have a broad range of experience as most designers do. Started off in an agency environment, then organically transitioned to a user-focused role. Now, I manage a small design team in an in-house start-up. Looking for advice (mainly on management) and also open to giving advice as well! Foremost, I am a determined, honest, and curious person. Therefore, I am passionate about creating impactful solutions that serve a purpose for people. Working closely with others and collaborating brings me energy while moments of isolation are necessary to define the particulars of a project. With a growing experience in marketing/advertising, working with clients/in-house, and team leadership, I am a willing contributor to all of these specialties. Whether there are tight deadlines or unrefined requirements, I can have conversations with people or improvise effectively so we have accomplished our goals.
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Mohamed Zakarya
Founder at BITHUB
- Adobe
- Branding & Identity
- Entrepreneurship
If you're building a tech company in Egypt, you know the feeling: you read the playbook, you do what the SaaS blogs and the YC talks say to do - and it breaks the moment it hits the local market. Payments don't behave the way the tutorials assume. Buyers don't sign because your deck is good; they sign because they trust you. The talent market, the pricing psychology, the sales cycles - none of it matches the imported advice. For the last few years I've been building, selling, and shipping software out of Egypt - through Shopless, my strategy-and-software agency, and a portfolio of products like Tawrida (Trade Operations Platform) and BITHUB. I've also built brands from scratch, including a Gen Z consumer label, and produced the cinematic content behind them. I post about what works here - the operational reality of building product, brand, and go-to-market in Egypt and the wider MENA region. No recycled San Francisco advice. Just the things I wish someone had told me earlier. If you're building in this region, follow along. Four things you'll get from me: → the operational reality of building in Egypt → go-to-market truth for MENA → brand & taste as a competitive edge → honest takes on the ecosystem
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Tyson Kingsbury
Creative Director at Veriday
- Art Direction
- Creative Direction
- Figma
- Interaction Design
I’m an experienced Creative Director with over 20 years of experience in both print and web campaigns and projects. From national ad campaigns to large-scale websites, from B2C to Enterprise, I’ve enjoyed a career thus far that has allowed me to create and produce some truly wonderful projects. Specialties: Website & Intranet design, Branding and Brand Development, Strategic Planning, Corporate identity, Advertising, User Interface Design
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Raquel Villani
Creative Designer at Villani Design
- 3D
- Industrial Design
- Product Design
- Sketch
Senior Creative Designer with deep knowledge in creating innovative concepts in the fields of automotive, virtual reality, metaverse, interior design, and product design. Proficient in integrating aesthetics and functionality, anticipating trends, and actively collaborating within multidisciplinary teams to achieve project goals. Key Competencies: Automotive Design: Specialization in automotive design, focus on developing innovative concepts for both interior and exterior, seamlessly blending creativity and functionality. Unreal Engine and Immersive Technologies: In-depth knowledge of Unreal Engine for crafting engaging virtual experiences and high-quality interactive environments.
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Sajid Saiyed
Sr UX Design Manager at Google
- Data Visualization
- Design Leadership
- Design Management
- Interaction Design
I am a seasoned design leader who is passionate about enabling organizations to build, grow, and nurture design teams that are highly motivated and driven to design and ship game-changing products that empower and delight the users. I achieve this by creating an environment for my team to experiment, innovate, fail, and learn without fear. ‍ The unique perspective that I bring is shaped by having worked in diverse industries across the globe coupled with a strong design education which has shaped me into a curious mix of designer, tinkerer, maker, artist and a geek.
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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.
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Ilya Boruhov
Product Designer at Dell EMC
- Design Leadership
- Graphic Design
- Product Design
- User Experience
Product design director for major clients Build info structures via research and data analytics and transform them into intuitive, animated, accessible and easy-to-use designs. Design for Desktop, iOS and Android platforms with the ability to create clean design systems with smart components.
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