Our Mentors

Patricia Lourenco

Senior User Experience Designer at Freelance

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

I’m a Toronto based digital designer with 10+ years of experience, specializing in UI/UX + Branding, with a pulse on interaction design. I find value in helping people through design and take a conscientious and mindful approach in creating identities along with intuitive, user friendly experiences.

Luiz Otavio Moreira Abreu

Innovation Manager at Moleskine

• 3D
• Industrial Design
• Product Design
• Sketch

Hi, my name is Luiz Otavio and I am a design strategist with over 9 years of experience. I’ve helped a varied range of companies in designing products that would work as a pathway towards a strategic vision, from white goods to furniture and electric appliances. ● Professional with over 12 years of experience, the last 10 dedicated to the Strategic Industrial Design field, acting with companies from Brazil, Italy, and China, through either consultancy or internally. ● Experience in strategic planning and development, towards products and services from various markets and segments, such as automotive, white goods, home appliances, and beauty. ● Experience in managing all the phases of the design process, from research (user, market, trends and brand), to identifying opportunity scenarios translated in frameworks, to designing products and services coherent with the foundational insights, to finally the deployment of such artefacts. ● Management of junior staff, supporting in the projects, performance assessments and career development and guidance in both 'everyday work' and 'personal roadmaps'. ● Design Language/Semantics specialisation: through market/competititon assessment, values are identified and opportunities areas are exploited for future products. ● Experience in primary and secondary research set-up and execution, in order to understand opportunities, gaps, advantages values and obstacles towards the development of products, services, and strategic actions for the companies: identification of possible roadmaps and the tangibility of such roads (i.e. the shape, dimensions, colours, technical features, portfolio expansion, new business models, ...)

Vinod Singh

UI/UX Designer at HDFC ERGO General Insurance

• Figma
• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• User Experience

UI/UX designer with a background in visual design as well. I have worked in various digital mediums for over 9 years, worked in multiple domain such as Health insurance, ed-tech, E-commerce, FMCG, online grocery, corporate

Mohammad Maher

Head of UX at Digikala.com

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

I’m a strategic and data-driven Design Director passionate about shaping the future of digital products through the power of design and AI. I’ve led diverse teams across e-commerce, SaaS, and digital transformation projects in the MENA region — helping brands create smarter, more intuitive, and human-centered experiences. My approach blends creativity with strategy — translating business goals into design solutions that improve performance, boost conversion, and simplify complexity. I believe AI can amplify creativity and decision-making, helping teams think beyond what’s possible today. I’m always eager to sit down for a good cup of coffee (I prefer V60 if you’re curious! Haha! ) and talk about out-of-the-box ideas that could shape what’s next.

Akin Gundogan

Web / UI Design Specialist at Freelance

• User Experience
• User Interface
• Visual Design
• Web Design

Hi, started as a graphic designer, I have 10+ years of experience in Web/UI Design and Html/Css coding and aiming to learn more about UX and design in general since learning never ends. Hoping to put my design eye & knowledge to another good use by mentoring junior designers & improving myself!

Jennifer Daniel

Product Designer at Interswitch Group

• Accessibility
• Design Thinking
• Product Design
• Webflow

Hello 👋 I'm Jennifer Daniel, a product designer based in Lagos, Nigeria wiith over three years of valuable experience, My experience cuts across sectors such as Fintech, EdTech, E-commerce, Information Technology, to name a few and I also have a blockchain and web 3 certification from Binance. With my passion for growth, teaching, and mentoring, I established an EdTech resource hub called uxresourcehub.com where aspiring UX designers can learn UI/UX design and gain valuable knowledge in the field for free. My drive has led me into becoming a mentor dedicated to supporting the design community, helping young & growing ux designers and ensuring their continuous growth.

Joe Cahill

Design Services Manager at Unqork

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

For the past 20 years, I have had the pleasure to watch design & user experience evolve from the quick impact we would make in Ads & print to the immersive websites & applications of today. My love for this is deeply engrained in mentoring young designers as well as being an advocate for my craft. I still get excited working hands-on in Sketch, invision along with still enjoying the Adobe Suite.

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.

Sarun Sasi

Principal UX at Licious - Born to meat

• Interaction Design
• User Experience
• User Interface
• Visual Design

Sarun is an experienced designer with a demonstrated history of working in the Food & Beverages, Finance, e-Commerce, Travel & Leisure, Real Estate Industry. He was previously working with Swiggy, Cleartrip, Housing & Flipkart.

Arun Dadhwal

Sr. Product Designer at Tide

• Accessibility
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• User Centered Design

I learnt everything on job from my peers & design community. After 10+ years, Now, I switched to consultancy, to be closer to my family & take care of my growing kids . In these tough times, when a lot of people are away from their homes & family+ losing jobs, I want to help them in any way possible

Ben Spear

Interim Director of Design at Geode Capital Management

• Branding & Identity
• Career Advice
• Design Leadership
• Team Building

Transformative design leader with 20 years of experience in team building and development, scaling design, brand strategy, design education, user research, UX/UI, and production. Servant leader and true believer in the power of design to improve the world and ourselves.

Lovish Bandwal

Product Designer at Betterplace

• Product Design
• User Experience
• User Research

I am a serial problem solver with experience in designing products in the HRMS, Fintech, Healthcare, Music. As a designer, I bring together user's needs and business goals to create holistic solutions. I have mentored 30+ mentees to help them in portfolio, Job findings, UX research and UX design.

Lukas Sabaliauskas

Creative Solutions Production Engineer at Adform

• Graphic Design
• User Interface
• Web Design

I am an innovative and accomplished Multimedia (Graphic & Web) Design professional with experience providing comprehensive coordination of all product development activities. I have worked on large-scale, complex tasks. I am a highly motivated individual with a proven ability to do good work in a team or work individually when needed. I am a creative, self-starter who provides strong attention to detail and design quality.

Emmanuel Adeleye

UI/UX Designer at Godigit Insurance

• 3D
• User Experience
• User Interface

I'm UI/UX Designer & 3D illustrator who has a great interest in providing solutions around Fintech & HealthTech. I have had the privilege to design Health systems, multiple Fintech products, Mobile Apps, and websites.

Maurivan Luiz

Design Director - Visual Systems at Pipefy

• Graphic Design
• Mobile Development
• User Experience
• User Interface

I'm a designer living around the world, leading the Design Team at Pipefy — the leading lean management and AI-powered process automation platform. At Pipefy, we empower people and companies to take control of their daily work and scale operational excellence. Our platform connects teams across marketing, HR, customer service, finance, and beyond — enabling organizations to automate workflows, orchestrate processes end-to-end, and leverage AI assistance to make work smarter, faster, and more human-centered. Since 2015, Pipefy has helped thousands of doers worldwide solve business problems autonomously. Today, companies in over 150 countries — from startups to global leaders like Accenture, Visa, GE, and Volvo — rely on Pipefy to drive greater agility, efficiency, and high-quality outcomes. In my role, I lead a multidisciplinary Design team, shaping the product vision with a focus on UX strategy, design systems, and AI-driven experiences. I collaborate closely with engineering and product management to ensure that innovation and usability go hand in hand. Before Pipefy, I worked as Lead UX & UI Designer at GVT/Vivendi, a telecom company acquired by Telefonica Group (NYSE:TEF) for US$9.3 billion. Beyond work, I love creating digital products, building smart solutions that people truly enjoy using, and exchanging ideas with brilliant designers around the world. With a background in both design and coding, I bring concepts to life through interactive prototypes, transforming ideas into simple and beautiful experiences.

Aditya Pandharpure

Lead Industrial Designer at Gamlaa Bioscapes

• Industrial Design
• User Experience

Hi, Myself Aditya, a Passionate Industrial designer who would like to create and design user-centric products. Worked for around four years in medical product design and explored extensively how to develop functional and useful products. Design is problem-solving and in that, we need to find a perspective to develop something valuable, taking the same opportunity to develop a disinfector in a pandemic and received a bronze medal in the IDA2020 design award. Featured many of my works on websites one of which includes NintendoRadio on Yanko design. Along with the medical design, I also worked with the Innovative side of Design with Desmania Designs which is India's Largest Industrial design Studio. Helped many brands to develop innovative products and rise startups. Currently working in the lifestyle industry also explored the aesthetic factor of design as well and developed some biophilic designs for remarkable companies in India. I would like to mentor on how design can be a decision-making factor in raising startups and along with design how to create business material as well as production material for the same. I have expertise in high-end 3D surfacing and 3D printing technology and would like to mentor people on how to effectively use it for the iterative and innovative development of products. Thank you

Johan Steneros

Angel Squad Member at Hustle Fund

• Branding & Identity
• Design Systems
• Design Thinking
• Marketing Design

I’m Johan Steneros and I’m and entrepreneur with a background in design. I have been working in digital design for over 20 years where my main focus is product design and brand identity design. Apart from working as a designer I have been involved with various startups as a founder where I have also worked in the fields of project management, business development, marketing and recruitment and what not. Some of the areas I have experience working with include SaaS, B2B, B2C, e-commerce, marketplaces, crypto, food & beverage and hospitality.

Daria Kriuchkova

• Design Strategy
• Information Architecture
• User Centered Design
• User Research

I’m a Senior UX Researcher and Product Strategist who enjoys helping people make sense of complex research and product problems. Over the past 5+ years, I’ve worked across enterprise products, large-scale research, facilitation, and research operations at companies including EPAM and Ozon. I also explore how AI can support research planning, coding, synthesis, and knowledge management without compromising research quality. I’m especially passionate about building systems for thinking and learning. I maintain a large personal knowledge base using the Zettelkasten method, and whenever relevant, I support my advice to mentees with direct references to research and literature. Bring me a messy challenge, a study you’re planning, or a decision your team is struggling with, and we can work through it together.

Will Poole

Head of User Experience at Kyan

• Information Architecture
• Product Design
• User Centered Design
• User Experience

Defender of the user's experience by day, brewer of craft beer by night, hop grower, classic motorbike enthusiast and avid skier (when there’s snow) at the weekends. 15 years of industry experience and counting, I am passionate about creating digital experiences and interfaces that not only are simple and delightful to use but ultimately I hope and strive to make a difference for the end-user. After graduating from Bournemouth University in 2011 studying Interactive Media Production, my career to date has been a privileged one but also a humbling one having had the opportunity to create experiences for organisations such as Apple, Amazon, BT, ITV, Wella, Bupa, Primark, RBS, Thales, and Worldpay. Specialities: User Experience (UX) · Employee Experience (EX) · Customer Experience (CX) · Object-Oriented User Experience (OOUX) · Lean UX · User Research · Experience Mapping · Customer Journey Mapping · Usability Studies · Field Studies · Longitudinal Studies · UX Strategy · Content Strategy · Heuristic Evaluation · User Flows · Information Architecture · Interaction Design · Wireframing · Product Design · User Experience Design · User Interface Design · Prototyping · User Interface · Design Systems · Mobile Applications · Scrum · Agile Methodologies · Project Management · Web Design

Swarnima Shukla

Product Designer at Meesho

• Product Design
• User Experience
• User Interface

I am a self-taught designer with formal education in Computer Science and Engineering. I have 2+ years of experience in the design domain, from a design agency to an ed-tech startup to finally working at Meesho as a product designer. I have mentored around 150+ students since my college, by conducting 1-1 sessions, webinars and seminar at colleges, I like to connect with budding designers and have mentored over 10+ students and professionals to start their design journey. I would like to mentor for Product Design and its verticals along with design portfolio creation, starting design journey, career paths in this domain and interview preparation at various companies and startups.

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.

Ankit Dembla

Head of Design at WT InfoTech

• Art Direction
• Creative Direction
• Design Thinking
• Interaction Design

Creative Advertising/Marketing professional and Product Designer with over 12 years of experience working with global, cross-functional teams. Winner - Google Play Award 2017, 2016. Winner - Mass Challenge (UK). Fun Fact - Guinness World Record holder.

Ajay Jadhav

Experience Designer at Redd Experience Design

• Graphic Design
• Product Design
• User Experience
• User Interface

Creative graphic designer with innovative ideas and a unique approach to visuals. Solid understanding of marketing principles and advertising techniques. Great attention to detail and a talent for creating memorable visual designs. Enthusiastic team player who is committed to delivering top results on time and within the budget. Passion for keeping clients satisfied with each project.

Nick Finck

Founder & Principal Consultant at Craft & Rigor

• Career Transitions
• Design Leadership
• Design Management
• Portfolio Review

For the better part of 25 years I’ve been helping mentor and coach some of the worlds top designers and design leaders. I have also been through a lot, from being a designer and a leader in house, to at an agency, from running my own agency & product company, to freelancing and teaching, chances are I’ve gone through what you’re going through and I can help you get to where you want to go in your career.

Adrian Carpintero

UX Designer at Amazon

• Art Direction
• Motion Design
• Portfolio Review
• User Experience

Hi there! I’m Adrian. I was born and raised in Argentina, lived in Spain, moved to Chicago, and now happily call Austin home. I am a UX Designer with a passion for developing creative and compelling end-to-end user experiences. I started my career in art direction at ad agencies back in Argentina before moving to the States, where I’ve had the pleasure of helping launch several startups and working on campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. In addition to UI/UX design, I enjoy creating motion graphic animations, seamless user experiences, service blueprints, user journeys, infographics, illustrations—the list goes on. When I’m not in front of my computer, you can find me playing volleyball, learning to play the piano, or my favorite—the ukulele. Oh, and I also make a mean empanada. Specialties: Visual Design, UI/UX, Web Design, Motion Graphic Design, Design and Art Direction, Human Centered Design, Usability Testing, Research, Brand Development.