Our Mentors

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    Lily Ekman

    Senior Product Designer at Acast

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

    Hello! I'm a Product Designer with background in UX and UI Design. I have experience from industries such as gaming, music, podcasting. I love to work with UI animations and tricky design challenges, for example making the same UI work for gamepad, touch, VR and keyboard at the same time!

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    Deniz Erdal

    Lead Product Designer at Pendo.io

    • Art Direction
    • Graphic Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    My goal as a Product Designer is to make my users’ lives easier. I have a passion for understanding people’s problems, priorities, and goals, and facilitating solutions through design and communication. “All that we do, almost all the time, is design, for design is basic to all human activity. The planning and patterning of any act toward a desired and foreseeable end constitutes the design process.” —Victor Papanek, Design for the real world

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    Chad Engle

    Director of Product Design at GoDaddy

    • Creative Direction
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I have experience in managing & scaling design teams + w/ experience in both product design and marketing design as well as design at scale. Love talking to designers, mentoring, and seeing them grow. Currently building a design team at GoDaddy.

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    Aleksandra V

    Product Designer at Freelance

    • Design Thinking
    • Product Design
    • Psychology
    • User Experience

    Experienced digital product designer with 9+ years of turning research, empathy and business goals into user-friendly experiences. Mentor and cheerleader for women in tech. Forever curious about psychology, mindfulness and anything that gets me moving — whether it’s sports or new ideas. ・Delivered 6 global SaaS projects, 20+ mobile & web UX/UI projects and 10+ UX Research projects ・Collaborated with international cross-functional teams across startups, agencies and enterprises ・Focused on aligning user needs with business objectives, using research insights and the Design Thinking approach to guide product decisions

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    Theophilus Fredrick

    Member at Design Leadership Forum

    • eLearning
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Research

    Theophilus is a product designer with extensive full-stack design experience spanning over eight years. For the last five years, he has focused on product and UX design by leading design efforts for startups and agencies, delivering B2C and B2B products across mobile and web. He excels in finding a good balance between user experience, technical feasibility, and business goals. Apart from active design work, he is passionate about training designers via tutoring and mentoring.

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    Vasanthakumar Kumar

    Creative Lead at Indegene

    • Creative Direction
    • Graphic Design
    • Visual Design

    I am a creative director with more than 15 years in various positions. I started my career as Software Engineer in TCS, Working there for 5 years with stint in onsite . The love for creativity made me moved to Graphic designing with my own interest. I was instrumental in Dreamapp Innovative solution

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    Dallan Isom

    Product Designer at MTN OPS

    • Art Direction
    • Creative Direction
    • Graphic Design
    • Industrial Design

    I am a creative professional with a deep understanding of human values and design processes. I specialize in building multi-sensory experiences that connect people to brands, inspire action, and drive solutions to market. I balance my creative abilities with strategic business plans to reach exceptional levels of excellence and enjoy working collaboratively with others to bring bold ideas to life.

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    Ryan McGuire

    Roaster / Owner at Self-employed

    • Adobe
    • Art Direction
    • Graphic Design
    • Marketing Design

    I love design. There is nothing more rewarding to me than being able to create compelling designs for passionate businesses. I've earned a reputation for providing some of the most creative, beautiful, and functional websites and graphics and for providing service that is second to none. Specialties: Graphic design, web design, marketing consulting, creativity consulting, mentoring, advertising,

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    Aprajit Kar

    Director of Product Design at foodpanda

    • Design Management
    • Mobile Development
    • Service Design
    • User Experience

    I've been an engineer turned designer and practicing since a decade now. Started as a visual designer and learnt the way forward into UX, product design and design management lately. Would love to learn more about the best practices followed by other designers and share my learnings in the process.

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    Alex Russell

    Partner at Collectively Made

    • Information Architecture
    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • User Centered Design

    Entrepreneurial designer, leader, problem solver, strategic thinker, lean process advocate. Into art, tech, processes & methodologies, interfaces & tools, startups, human-centered design and personal development. Dabbles in visual design, user research, drawing, coding, and prototyping. I partner with startups, small organizations, and non-profits to re-think design strategies or invent new ones. I've designed & implemented solutions that have helped clients save time, save money, and provide delight.

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    Prashita Swami

    Visual Designer at DeHaat

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

    I am a Visual Designer at DeHaat (India based Agri-tech Company), who loves to illustrate and paint in her "me" time, besides designing for our Indian Farmers.

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    Matthew Weprin

    Sr Manager, UX Design - Employee Experience Technology at Workday

    • Design Leadership
    • Design Sprint
    • Design Thinking
    • Interaction Design

    Award-winning design leader with 30+ years of overall industry experience, with the last five years, focused on building and leading high-performing design teams for some of the world's most successful enterprises. Passionate about transforming organizations through User Experience (UX) Strategy, Design, and Research while empowering a user-obsessed culture. A taco enthusiast living in Denver, Colorado. Key Skills include: User Experience, Design Leadership, User Experience Strategy, Design Thinking, Enterprise Transformation, Service Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User-Centered Design, Digital Design, Digital Strategy, Information Architecture, Organizational Design, User Research, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Facilitation, and People Management

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    Bilal Mohammad

    Sr. Design Lead, Amazon Freevee at Amazon

    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    Prototyping, Sketch, Customer Stories, Working with Product Managers, Design Sprints, Jobs-to-be-done Framework for Design

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    Jim Kidwell

    Senior Product Marketing Manager at Smarsh

    • Information Architecture
    • Marketing Design
    • Product Management
    • User Experience

    I'm a Marketing professional who has worked at Extensis for almost 15 years. I'm a font management expert, writer and marketing guy with my fingers in many projects. Profit-minded, B2B and B2C senior product marketer supporting sales teams, partners, and clients through lead gen, market analysis, product positioning, content creation, competitive intelligence, and much more. Together we get results through: * Market and competitive analysis and development of targeted product positioning * Creation of robust go-to-market strategies * Development of content to support product launches - web content, white papers, technical documents, presentations, ROI calculators, videos, and more * Presenting at conferences & trade shows as well as online webinars * Developing sales enablement tools, battle cards, case studies and more to help drive sales and maximize profit

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    Seun Alakanse

    Senior Product Designer at SeamlessHR

    • Enterprise Design
    • Figma
    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I am a Senior UX Designer at SeamlessHR, where I lead the design and user experience for major products. I have developed a deep expertise in usability testing, wireframing, and interaction design. Previously, I was a Senior UX Designer at Sportas. In this role, I focused on improving user experience effectiveness and developing intuitive prototypes.

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    Prakash Damodaran

    Principal UX Architect at Commscope Networks

    • Product Design
    • User Experience

    I‘m a Product designer/design mentor, leading a design team in India with over 18+ years of experience in conceptualizing and crafting digital products, helping businesses expand their capacity for impact 🚀 I specialize in web app interactions and native mobile app experiences. As a mentor, I help aspiring UX design students build a career they love by giving feedback and sharing my knowledge and passion for design, technology, and the field of education 🎓

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    Justin Heidenreich

    Sr. UI/UX Designer at NBC Sports Next

    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design
    • Sketch
    • User Centered Design

    Creator, designer, animator, and self-starting problem solver of prolific skills and experience. Whether in a leadership position or playing a supporting role, my goals are the same: grow, achieve great results, and raise the bar for those around me. Equally important is to be helpful and kind, open to new experiences, and put love in the work.

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    Varada Jambhalikar

    User Experience Designer at IBM

    • Augmented Reality
    • Enterprise Design
    • User Centered Design
    • User Experience

    I am a designer who likes to tell stories through immersive experiences and build user-friendly solutions. I believe immersion can be anything and everything. My interest in human behavior observation motivates me to create human-centric solutions and experience-enhancing solutions. I am working as a UX Designer for both immersive tech and digital products. I have pursued Engineering as a bachelor followed by Designing as a master's. I believe tech and design go hand in hand, Design is a powerful tool that gives a human-centered approach to new innovations. I would like to help other aspirants to build their knowledge and mentor them in their design journey.

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    serbay sivrikaya

    UI & UX Designer at Comstice

    • Art Direction
    • Graphic Design
    • Interaction Design
    • Mobile Development

    Experienced User Experience Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Corporate Identity, Visual Communication, User Experience (UX), Advertising, and Interaction Design. Strong design professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in visual communication design from İstanbul Bilgi University.

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    Behzad Fathizadeh

    Senior Product Designer at takhfifan.com

    • Mobile Design
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I'm a product designer with over 4 years of experience in Technology, Fintech, Crypto and Ecommerce industries. Eager to share my knowledge with other designers around the world.

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    Ishaan Kansal

    Senior Product Designer at DoorDash

    • Figma
    • Interaction Design
    • Product Design

    Currently designing at Samsara. Previously was a Kleiner Perkins design fellow and worked at Facebook and Pinterest.

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    Paul Genberg

    Partner, Director Strategic Design at BCG Digital Ventures

    • Branding & Identity
    • Industrial Design
    • Product Design
    • Sketch

    As a strategic designer I guide senior corporate executives and multi-disciplinary teams through the divergent and convergent innovation process to bring together the best of design, strategy, and analysis to help organizations invent and launch disruptive businesses while transforming their innovation culture. I lead human-centered needs discovery and definition, as well as concept, prototype design and development, and user specifications documentation delivery. I have launched 4 new businesses in the last 2 years ranging from precision growing technology to human-augmented financial advice. As a strategic designer I guide senior corporate executives and multi-disciplinary teams through the divergent and convergent innovation process to bring together the best of design, strategy, and analysis to help organizations invent and launch disruptive businesses while transforming their innovation culture. I lead human-centered needs discovery and definition, as well as concept, prototype design and development, and user specifications documentation delivery. I have launched 4 new businesses in the last 2 years ranging from precision growing technology to human-augmented financial advice. I am a results-driven creative problem solver with an analytical bend and a well-developed creative vision. I have a strong track record in launching innovative products and businesses. I thrive in collaborative team environments and I have extensive experience working in NA, EMEA, and APAC. StrengthsFinder Top 5 Themes: Communication, Competition, Activator, Relator, Adaptability

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    Tyler Dormanen

    UX Design Manager at Best Buy

    • Creative Direction
    • Design Management
    • User Experience

    UX Design Manager at Best Buy. I've worked everywhere from Powersports to Healthcare, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. I am passionate about passing along to the next generation of designers and I love connecting with people.

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    Matthew Grunwald

    Product Consulting at Self-employed

    • Design Management
    • Information Architecture
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I'm a design leader with 8+ years of experience ranging from enterprise to gamification. I solve business needs by applying design thinking and industry best practices. Im looking for an opportunity to give back to the design community through mentorship and to expand my horizons and knowledge!

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    Anastacia Grig

    Product Designer at Ellii (formerly ESL Library) · Permanent

    • iOS Development
    • Product Design
    • User Experience
    • User Interface

    I'm a product designer focusing on the user experience of mobile/web interfaces. 10+ years of user-centered design experience. I adore the product development process and am responsible for the user's awareness of the product, making sure that it is friendly, simple to use, and navigate.