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    Sean Landry

    Principal Product Designer at HubSpot

    • Interaction Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I believe in the power of design. The power it has to transform people, companies, and lives. I believe in the power of the team. By working with talented engineers, designers, and product teams it's possible to build incredible software that makes the world a better place to live. I believe if you combine exceptional user interfaces, thoughtful and genuine user experiences, and remain true to the principles of human psychology, you can design software has can transform people's lives.

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    David Hobbs

    Senior Digital Designer - Tesco.com at Tesco

    • Career Advice
    • Design Management
    • Sketch

    Front End Web Designer highly skilled at designing, adapting, developing, and managing online solutions from concept to completion. Growing experience in UX/UI methodologies including UI design systems, research, user testing, and data analysis. Working in a constantly fast-paced, pressurized environment, I work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the design team consistently delivers digital assets that offer the optimal end-user experience. Always learning and always seeking the highest standards attainable for myself and my team. Key skills include Digital Design, UI, UX, User Testing, Photoshop, Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Interface Design, Graphic Design, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Email Design, HTML, CSS, SEO

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    Abhishek Bhargava

    Co-Founder at Covalent

    • Entrepreneurship
    • Product Design
    • User Research

    I've built many products over the past few years, including tools for designers to make them more efficient. I'm running a Y Combinator backed startup and have experimented quite heavily with UI and UX in the past couple years. Building Covalent, a platformless tool that introduces people in communities and organizations to others who are relevant to them, and helps them build meaningful relationships.

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    Chiuian Iulia

    Graphic Designer at Tokhit

    • Branding & Identity
    • Design Critique
    • Graphic Design
    • Portfolio Review

    ✨I'm Iulia, a Brand Identity Designer that uses dynamic visuals to create easy-to-use systems.

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    Anjana Singh

    Senior User Experience Designer at Volvo Cars

    • Interaction Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface
    • User Research

    I’m Senior UX designer with over 8 years of experience working for companies like Volvo, IKEA, BMW, Cisco, Bombardier, Vodafone, and Daimler. I help companies develop user-centric products, write about UX, and mentor the future generation of designers as often as possible. Since it wasn't easy path to join UX industry few years ago, I feel now that I have lot of knowledge/tips of how to get in UX industry, I'd love to share it with future UX designers. I've been working as mentor before springboard academy too.

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    Arun Nellikkatil

    Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi

    • Art Direction
    • Branding & Identity
    • Graphic Design
    • Illustration

    Be Calm & Create awesome stuff. That's always been my motto, anyways over the course of 13+ years with agencies and brands across globe, I've been fortunate enough to do that by creatively delivering work that cuts through the noise and helps businesses tell their stories! “Do What You Can With What You Have Right Where You Are” with over 14 plus years of experience, Arun is the Creative Director who focuses on developing an engaging and sustainable design for purpose-driven brands. The roots of his passion stem from his fascination with storytelling through visual arts and interactive digital experiences. In the search for unique, buzz-worthy, and inspirational creative solutions, Arun always strives to create the never before seen and never before done. He is known for his aesthetic approach and specializes in design strategy that aims to elevate brands— strategically merging minimalism, data, and strong visual storytelling. And he has done it all - print, outdoor, video, social and digital. Arun has seasoned his stint working with world-class agencies and brands for which he has won many accolades.

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    Marat Ryndin

    Principal Product Designer at Relativity

    • Design Process
    • Design Strategy
    • Mobile Design
    • Product Design

    Product designer with experience in consumer and enterprise products including enterprise backup, AI-driven cybersecurity, and e-discovery. After Google, has been a principal designer at three startups that have been acquired by larger companies (Google, Zscaler, and Relativity). Interested in rational decision-making, fintech, crypto, AI/ML, autonomous driving/flight, space, defense, digital nomadism, current events, network states, digital/AI art, music, movies, standup, sports (especially soccer and hockey), etc.

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    Kenny Kutney

    General Manager at Londonderry Foundation for STEM Education

    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I am a strong design thinker, business leader, and team builder, with an engineering and design background. I love solving complex challenges, while finding innovative solutions to business problems. I can move easily from in-depth conversations with customers and users, to executive stakeholder discussions, to making difficult decisions and tradeoffs with management and development teams, while maintaining business objectives and a long-term product strategy and vision.

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    Fabio Basile

    Head of Product Design at Deepcrawl

    • Development
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I'm Fabio, a self-taught digital designer specialising in UI and UX, holding a combined Bachelor's Degree in software engineering and games development. My work has been featured in on Mashable, The Next Web, TechCrunch, MacStories, The New York Times and been the winner of several awards (including iOS App of the Year). Over the past 13+ years, I've worked with over 150 clients in over 30 locations around the world.

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    Taylane Melo

    Product Designer Consultant at VOCA

    • Design Thinking
    • Interaction Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I'm a passionated Product Designer based in Belo Horizonte and who loves wine, pottery, my dog and of course, finding creative solutions to hard problems.

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    Merrilyn Romen

    Adjunct Instructor at San Diego State University

    • Art Direction
    • Creative Direction
    • Graphic Design
    • User Experience

    20+ years as a creative director/art director in the entertainment industry, now branching out into e-commerce and fitness Multidisciplinary Art Director and Visual Designer, Strategist, Storyteller, and Conceptual thinker - Print and Digital. I have a proven track record of building impactful, world-class 360 creative brands and campaigns that connect with audiences. I have an entrepreneurial mindset and work closely with CEOs, marketing, editorial, video and social teams. While maintaining brand integrity, I help companies refresh brands utilizing data and focus groups to iterate. I work in digital design, integrative campaigns, print, social, environmental and events.

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    Shivangi Jaiswal

    Senior UX Designer at CBRE

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

    I am a User Experience & Interface. Currently I am pursuing clinical psychology, I love to guide and learn about Designing, Psychology, personal financial & environmental issues. I enjoy every aspect of my work, and I'm not afraid of Mondays. I work meticulously & always seek to improve myself. Managing, planning and budgeting are among my strongest abilities. My leadership, coordination and camaraderie skills are excellent. Hi there! I am a User Experience Designer at CBRE. As a UX designer, my primary goal is to decrypt the code of everyone's requirements, not just for the present but also for the future. Everyone on this planet should be considered as a part of every project because everyone is affected in some way, positive or negative. Prior to this, I worked for Tech Mahindra, Vendekin Technologies, and Tecture. My main interests are design, psychology, and personal finance.

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    Keith Mascheroni

    Sr. UX Design Lead at unemployed inc.

    • Creative Direction
    • Data Visualization
    • Design Critique
    • Product Design

    I've been a UX designer for over 18 years, have a background in graphic design. I love product design because it prioritizes function over style: the best UX designs become more or less invisible to the user. I like to work in teams, am comfortable managing projects and their stakeholders and have a good bedside manner. I can think laterally, ask stupid questions no one else wants to, crave difficult problems to solve and complex things to simplify.

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    Stephen Elufisan

    Founder at The UX Boss Community

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

    I'm a highly motivated product designer with 6 years of experience in creating user-centred designs and building strong brands across multiple industries, including B2B, Fintech, Healthtech, Education, and more. I possess a wide range of expertise in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Miro, InVision, Figjam, as well as project management tools like Jira, Teams, and Trello. I am passionate about mentoring other product designers to grow their skills and knowledge.

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    Smrita Jain

    Senior UX Designer at MRM//McCann Worldgroup

    • Accessibility
    • Art Direction
    • Branding & Identity
    • User Experience

    Smrita is an experienced UX strategist, designer, and educator who enjoys elevating brands by applying well-informed insights to produce beautiful yet functional digital products, services, and engagement platforms. She understands the nuances and complexities of how a brand shows up across the digital landscape and can explain that brand’s purpose in an authentic, inspiring, and innovative way. Smrita is always excited about the intersection of strategy, design, and technology and enjoys peeling back the layers of complex problems to uncover hidden gems to unlock the catalyst for transformation within a client’s digital ecosystem. From driving loyalty to launching new products and services, she understands how to use digital technologies to connect brands with their customers. She knows how to maintain vibrant client relationships while aiming to expand and grow into new engagement opportunities.

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    Vinayak Bhandare

    Product Experience Specialist & Manager at GlobalLogic

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Management
    • DesignOps
    • Design Process

    I strongly believe in sharing design experiences and practices to help and build better design communities, to drive design as a culture and delivering value by creating human-centered experiences. Have you ever heard of Dieter? Do the Rams say that? "Good design makes something understandable and memorable. Great design creates something memorable and meaningful." That's my mantra! High-stakes UX/product design leader and strategist with 15+ years building products people actually use, across B2B, B2C, and AI. I've shipped 600+ projects and run 350+ design workshops for everyone from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 teams. Along the way I've led and mentored 100+ designers, built design cultures that hold up under pressure, and taught 10K+ designers worldwide through talks and writing. Author of India by Design. Published research with Springer. Spoke at TEDx. Recipient of 30+ national and international awards. When I'm not designing, I'm usually cooking something new or off somewhere with a camera, chasing whatever sparks an idea. If you've got a project in mind, need a consultant, or just want a mentor to bounce things off, I'm in. Let's build something good together. Reach me at: LinkedIn: in.linkedin.com/pub/vinayak-bhandare/2a/989/379 Instagram: instagram.com/vinayak_bhandare/ TED: ted.com/profiles/2766726/about Medium: medium.com/@vinayak_bhandare

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    Anusha Swamy

    Senior Specialist - Product Design at Nasdaq

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

    I help tech companies with design transformation. I am a highly engaged experience design professional with over 13 years of combined experience across the core areas of the Product Design spectrum - a well-balanced play of entrepreneurship and working in diverse, creative, and multifunctional roles at large companies as well as a fast-paced startup environment. I use an amalgamation of design thinking, problem-solving, leadership, effective communication, superior observation skills, and a calm demeanor to drive a product from concept to launch.

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    Galina Kalugina

    Head of Human-Machine Interaction @ Robotics Laboratory at Sberbank

    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Senior UX designer with leadership experience and strong visual design background. MA of Arts in Graphics. Majored in Type Design, minored in book design and illustration. Aspiring multimodal interaction generalist with a solid UI/UX background and growing knowledge in cognitive science. I’m interested in robotics, automotive, and AR.

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    Aisosa Obasohan

    Product Designer at https://theshippack.com/

    • AI (Artificial Intelligence)
    • Design Systems
    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design

    I design AI products that help people make sense of complex information and act on it quickly. Currently, as the Founding Product Designer at Flowit.ai, I lead the end-to-end design of Connected Insights, our flagship B2B SaaS AI product for frontline managers, which has scaled from a single chat-based experience to a full product suite, contributing over CHF 2M in company CARR. My background spans conversational AI, HR tech, Payments, logistics, and social commerce across B2B and B2C products, with a speciality in UX research, interaction design, chat-based AI agents, agentic workflows, and design systems.

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    Hozefa Ayyajiwala

    Director - Design & ResearchDirector - Design & Research at upGrad

    • Design Management
    • Product Design
    • Product Development Process
    • Team Building

    With a total of 18+ years of experience and 13+ years in leading phenomenal design teams, across user experiences from Food, Fashion, Finance and now Education I design, prototype, test and iterate individually and collectively. Built teams, org structure and systems in upGrad, Limeroad, Tinyowl and HDFC Life My core ability is to hire and retain A+ design talents with very low attrition. Creating the right environments and building a muscle for constant measurement, jamming with teams and users for solutions. Helping stretch their capability whilst maintaining the reverence for process and user focus.

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    Joe Payne

    Advisor at High Alpha Innovation

    • Art Direction
    • Branding & Identity
    • Design Leadership
    • Graphic Design

    I have a background in design, UX, operations, and management. I'm a former founder and entrepreneur, and a lifelong learner. I've learned a lot of things in my life the hard way, and had some big wins, too. I don't have all the answers, but I love sharing what I do know with people. The dynamic intersection of Design and People is what gets me out of bed in the morning. I’m passionate about helping people—myself included— broaden their understanding of the value (and necessity) of design, and leveraging its ability to make meaningful differences in the world around us.

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    Dexter Wang

    Product Designer at LegalZoom

    • Design Systems
    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I am a product designer and design system architect. I've been operating in the startup scene in North America and East Asia. I help close the gap between design and development. I design digital products from conceptualization to code. I help teams build design systems that scale across large applications. Ask me about: product design, idea validation, design systems Technologies: HTML/CSS/JS, React, SwiftUI (iOS)

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    Prachi Shrivastava

    Senior UX Researcher at Careem

    • Design Thinking
    • Ethnography
    • User Research

    With almost 10 years of experience I have had a chance to work with products, categories and users around the world. I can work on any user experience research - irrespective of the categories, kind of product or service, etc as it all requires the same Design Thinking framework.

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    Deepshika Sakthivel

    Sr. Product Designer at Credo Health Services Pvt. Ltd.

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Sprint
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I am heading the design team at a Healthcare startup and have been in this industry for 5 years. I am a design mentor & consultant, apart from my full-time. I am usually involved in end-to-end product design, research, app & web UIs, spatial design, etc.

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    Mark Li

    Sr. UX Designer at Cimpress

    • DesignOps
    • Design Systems
    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design

    I enjoy working on digital products that solve real issues, both in the consumer and enterprise areas. I always try to balance business goals, user needs, and visual aesthetics. I regularly mentor other designers and help with design work for several tech NGOs in my free time. I am a big football fan, I like both watching and playing. I am also video game player and probably spend too much time watching anime.

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