Paula Andrea Becchetti
I'm a UX writer. Not only am I focused on UX, but also I have several years of experience working with software or tech companies. This means I can translate your technical language into a more colloquial one that everyone understands. In this way, you can easily share your know-how, while generating b2b leads or providing value to developers, attracting new top-notch talent.
Hoang Nguyen
Hoang Nguyen is one of the pioneers in the field of UI/UX Design in Vietnam. Over the years in the business, he has worked with top clients in the industry and many exciting startups. He has played the role of technical adviser on UI/UX Design at Behance Portfolio for years. He has also published articles on GAM7, a Vietnam’s design and marketing magazine, and other foreign e-magazines. He is founding member and design coach at GEEK Up.
Chris Rourke
I'm the Founder of User Vision, a leading UX and experience design and service design consultancy. I've has conducted projects throughout the UK and Europe, working with many blue-chip commercial companies and leading public sector organisations to provide UX, usability and accessibility support and advice. He is also presents training and regularly speaks at conferences to share his experience.
Dan Saffer
A Creative Director at Smart Design, Dan leads teams in creating new interaction paradigms across a wide range of products, spanning both digital and physical. Dan’s insightful, thoughtful approach to design has been captured in the four books he’s written—Designing for Interaction, Designing Gestural Interfaces, and Designing Devices. His latest book, Microinteractions, about the details of design, was published to much acclaim in 2013. You can follow him on Twitter at @odannyboy.
Diane Murphy
Diane Murphy is a UX Writer and Content Strategist. She’s currently a Senior UX Writer on the Personalization design team at Spotify, based in Boston. Prior to Spotify, Diane was a content strategist at Airbnb, Dropbox, and Facebook.
Micah Bowers
Micah Bowers is a senior designer at Toptal. Helping companies craft meaningful connections through branding, illustration, and design.
Bansi Mehta
For me, design thinking is the power to transform experiences and enrich lives. It isn’t mere creativity and innovation for its own sake; it’s specifically directed at creating a treasured value for users, businesses, and our ecosystem as a whole. I love to channelize design thinking to solve most problems for companies and individuals. My mission is to help business communities understand and tap into the power of UX for a more significant impact.
Sol Mesz
I have over 15 years of experience managing Digital products from idea generation through implementation and growth. I have worked with different products across many industries and with organizations of all sizes, from Fortune 10 to Startups and Non Profits. I am currently an independent consultant helping organizations make better product and design decisions to maximize the impact of design. You can find me at www.solmesz.com.
Nikki Anderson
Nikki is a User Research Lead and Instructor with 8 years of experience. She has worked in all different sizes of companies, ranging from a tiny start-up called ALICE to the large corporation, Zalando, and also as a freelancer. During this time, she has led a diverse range of end-to-end research projects across the world, specializing in generative user research. Nikki also owns her own company, User Research Academy, a community and education platform designed to help people get into the field of user research, or learn more about how user research impacts their current role. User Research Academy hosts online classes, content, as well as personalized mentorship opportunities with Nikki. She also writes as a contract writer at dscout and Dovetail. In addition to writing about user research, she writes psychological thrillers and fantasy novels.
Joseph Russell
Joseph is an award-winning app designer, app strategist and founder of DreamWalk. Over his 11 year career, Joseph has helped hundreds of businesses and startup founders plan, design, develop and launch successful apps. Joseph has written for Smart Company, Inside Small Business and B&T Weekly.
Dennis Hambeukers
Dennis is a strategic UX design consultant at Zuiderlicht. He is deeply interested in the intersection between design, business and technology. His goal is to solve complex business problems with meaningful UX in a way that leverages the human potential for creativity.
Jordan Ratner
Jordan Ratner is an original founder and former leader of Deloitte's Conversational AI Practice, overseeing its growth from 2016 - 2020. Jordan is passionate about using AI to transform how businesses solve problems. He has led large-scale implementations of conversational AI solutions within Fortune 500 companies across a wide variety of functions and industries, designed & built hundreds of conversational AI products, and cultivated vendor relationships with many leading conversational AI firms.
Ben Goodey
Ben Goodey leads marketing for SentiSum, a text and sentiment analytics company that automatically uncover granular, actionable CX insights from support tickets.
Lucy Denton
Lucy is a Senior Product Designer working at Sydney based startup, Dovetail. Dovetail is a qualitative data analysis and research repository tool, aimed to help teams understand their customers and make informed decisions. Prior to Dovetail, Lucy worked at Atlassian for over 5 years where she worked on Jira, the Atlassian marketplace and Hipchat.
Ben Goodey
I interview marketing leaders who reveal the process behind their most successful campaigns.
Matt Lillis
I’m an artist, museum experience designer and digital experience designer with over 15 years working in the art world. My new passion is utilizing my strong natural empathy and creativity to bridge customer needs and business needs with user-centered design. I believe that I can improve people's lives by designing products that are not only desirable and engaging but also provide a beautiful and delightful experience for the user.
Sol Mesz
I have over 15 years of experience managing Digital products from idea generation through implementation and growth. I have worked with different products across many industries and with organizations of all sizes, from Fortune 10 to Startups and Non Profits. I am currently an independent consultant helping organizations make better product and design decisions to maximize the impact of design. You can find me at www.solmesz.com.
Pranava Tandra
Pranava is a product designer deeply interested in processes and measures that support scalable solutions for design challenges. She currently designs search experiences for Microsoft Teams.
Amy Rogers
Amy is a London-based designer and researcher who writes about design methods and productivity. Her computer science background gives her a unique and analytical way of designing digital products. She also enjoys illustration, playing video games, and learning new skills through her side projects.
Tyler Berg
Tyler Berg is a product designer at Viget, where he focuses on creating user interface and design systems for websites and applications that solve user issues and accomplish business objectives. His ultimate goal as a designer is to make the digital world more usable, more approachable, and ultimately, more truthful.
Josh Tyson
Josh Tyson is the co-author of the first bestselling book about conversational AI, Age of Invisible Machines. He is also the Director of Creative Content at OneReach.ai and co-host of both the Invisible Machines and N9K podcasts. His writing has appeared in numerous publications over the years, including Chicago Reader, Fast Company, FLAUNT, The New York Times, Observer, SLAP, Stop Smiling, Thrasher, and Westword.
Jonathan Keyek-Franssen
I'm a designer currently creating products at Workday. I specialize in interaction design and have an affinity for film and woodworking. Professional knoller, part-time Canadian, full-time plant guy.
Stephanie Hagadorn
Stephanie is a UX designer and Certified Professional in Web Accessibility. She’s had the opportunity to work for a wide range of clients and companies, including IBM, USAA, and Indeed, where she’s helped teams across the world build beautiful and inclusive products. Besides design and accessibility, she’s equally passionate and opinionated about video games, movies, and dogs.
Sarah Rich
Hello, I’m Sarah Rich. I went to school for Cultural and Social Anthropology, but have spent my career in the media industry as a writer and editor for numerous magazines and online publications. Still, I think of my work as fundamentally anthropological, studying and telling the stories of people, places, and culture.
Benjamin Brandall
Experienced SaaS marketer and content strategist. Featured on TechCrunch, The Next Web, Fast Company, HubSpot, and hundreds of industry publications.
Katie Richmond
Katie has a background in product design and development and has worked in the gift industry for many years. She is naturally curious, with a strong interest in people and how they interact with digital experiences. She is currently a full-time UX Academy student at Designlab and is looking to transition into a digital product design & UX career.
Olga Kimalana
I am Senior Conversion Strategist in full-stack digital agency Scandiweb. Mostly working with e-commerce stores helping merchants improve user experiences on their websites and increase their bottom lines along the way. Researching websites and users, developing wireframes and creating seamless user journeys is what my days are filled with. I have experience working with a wide variety of industries, from optimizing regular e-commerce stores to airline booking flows and banking websites.
Shira Ben Cohen
Shira Ben Cohen is a passionate Experience Designer and a UX Researcher, part of Intel's enterprise-wide embedded management consulting unit, she partner and lead Intel's various business units through user experience methodologies to ensure customer experience expectations are met on high-value projects. Shira is a Service Designer, a Business Strategist, and a Design Thinking speaker and trainer. She also co-founded SDI- "Service design Israel" the first Israeli service design community. Shira believes a user-centered approach like Design Thinking and Service Design is the key to an in-depth organizational cultural change and shifting people’s mindsets.
Alvaro Gil
I’m a human-centered designer with years of experience in visual design. I thoroughly enjoy bringing products to life, starting with people’s needs and ending with stunning interfaces that are as impactful as they are a joy to use.
Jonathan Keyek-Franssen
I'm a designer currently creating products at Workday. I specialize in interaction design and have an affinity for film and woodworking. Professional knoller, part-time Canadian, full-time plant guy.
Khatia Gagnidze
Khatia is a designer with over 6 years of experience in product design, specializing in fintech, eCommerce, blockchain, banking, social network, and other industries. She has successfully designed, UX audited, and conducted research both remotely and on-site for companies worldwide, including in Australia, Singapore, UAE, France, and the USA.
Jesse Weaver
As an experienced product leader and designer, Jesse spent seven years as the Director of Product and UX for Gaia.com, guiding the company's product ecosystem as it scaled across thirteen platforms. Jesse currently directs the Entrepreneurial Design Studio at the University of Colorado Boulder and is the Founder of Design Like You Mean It, a product design consultancy working with companies of all sizes.
Yaron Cohen
Yaron is a multilingual professional in the field of UX research and digital strategy. At work, he enjoys helping companies innovate and improve their overall user experience. Outside work he enjoys music, long walks, and photography. Take a look at his portfolio at www.yaroncohen.com.
Jeff Steen is a longtime writer and content marketer, covering topics as varied as restaurant culture, health, religion, and technology. He has written for The Denver Post, Inc Magazine, and FitSmallBusiness, among other titles. When he’s not writing, he helps small startups build websites and develop marketing strategies. Learn more at jeffreysteen.com.
Michal Kessel Shitrit
I've been swimming in translation waters for the past 10+ years. After freelancing and managing my own translation agency, I realized the system is flawed. Clients get none of the control or responsibility for localization. I set out to change that by giving companies the tools to own the process and take back control over their results.
Maddy Beard
Maddy Beard is a strategic designer with a focus on UI/UX design in the wellness space. Empathy, cognitive psychology, and digital wellbeing are all driving forces behind her work. This year as an Adobe Creative Resident, Maddy is exploring ways to help people achieve their wellness goals using tech, while intentionally designing these products to promote more mindful tech use. She loves sharing her process and learnings with the creative community on Instagram and via her YouTube channel.
Matt Rae
Matt is a Designer Advocate, and XD Instructor for Adobe, based in Canada. Coming from a decade in product design, across industries including travel, autonomous vehicles, EdTech and advertising technology, he’s now focused on equipping designers with resources to design the best experiences using Adobe XD. He has a passion for user experience, and developing the design community.
Anna Voshkarina
Lead designer with 10+ years of corporate and startup experience. Developed B2B and B2C products for 2M+ active users, launched mobile apps, worked with Data Science and AI teams. Agile enthusiast with UX research expertise. Hiring and managing design teams with focus on customer obsessed culture.
Jeff Steen is a longtime writer and content marketer, covering topics as varied as restaurant culture, health, religion, and technology. He has written for The Denver Post, Inc Magazine, and FitSmallBusiness, among other titles. When he’s not writing, he helps small startups build websites and develop marketing strategies. Learn more at jeffreysteen.com.
Greg Vert
Greg is a leader in Deloitte’s HR Transformation practice where he focuses on bringing digital, intelligent automation, and AI solutions to his clients. He works across industries to develop digital strategies and roadmaps, create reimagined workforce experiences and improve the delivery of HR services using technology.
Caroline Sinders
Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher, artist, and online harassment expert. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of technology’s impact in society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital, conversational spaces. Sinders is the founder of Convocation Design + Research, an agency focusing on the intersections of machine learning, user research, designing for the public good, and solving difficult communication problems. As a designer and researcher, she has worked with Facebook, Amnesty International, Intel, IBM Watson, the Wikimedia Foundation, and others.
Chris Kiess
Chris is a healthcare designer with 15 years of experience in the health industry. He has worked with a number of large organizations in healthcare to include Eli Lilly, Indiana University School of Medicine, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Alzheimer’s Association, Amedisys Home Health and Hospice Care, Walgreens and Baxter Health. Chris currently resides in the Greater Chicago Area, working with a start-up in the home healthcare space.
Matt Lillis
I’m an artist, museum experience designer and digital experience designer with over 15 years working in the art world. My new passion is utilizing my strong natural empathy and creativity to bridge customer needs and business needs with user-centered design. I believe that I can improve people's lives by designing products that are not only desirable and engaging but also provide a beautiful and delightful experience for the user.
MacKenzie Legg
Mack is a ux designer and painter with a habit of poking holes in things. She is driven to use creative problem solving to build better products. Currently pursuing an MPS in UX Design at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Andrew Coyle
Andrew Coyle has worked as a designer for companies including Google, Intuit, and Flexport. He is currently the founder of NextUX, a visual editor and collaborative whiteboard.
Dana Kachan
Head of Marketing at GamesPad and BullPerks. Marketing strategist, business author, and international speaker. Author of the book "Business-Driven Digital Product Design." PR consultant and brand advisor featured in European Digital Marketing Week Magazine. NFT, product design and sustainability enthusiast.
Jeff Link
Jeff Link is a staff reporter at Built In covering design and user experience. His work has appeared in Fast Company, Architect Magazine and other publications. Follow him on Twitter @JeffJeffLink.
Andreas Fachner
Andreas is Director Brand Strategy at MetaDesign. Working on next-generation branding solutions for voice and AR interfaces, he strongly believes in bringing strategy and experience design together to create meaningful impact.
Jeff Steen is a longtime writer and content marketer, covering topics as varied as restaurant culture, health, religion, and technology. He has written for The Denver Post, Inc Magazine, and FitSmallBusiness, among other titles. When he’s not writing, he helps small startups build websites and develop marketing strategies. Learn more at jeffreysteen.com.
AI researcher, technologist, designer, and innovator. Lance Christmann is the head of experience design at OneReach.ai, where his strong background in interface design and design management, extends the user-centered design approach across all departments. Lance has created many products and enterprise applications and conversational AI experiences over his career for brands such as FedEx, Boeing, and the design of the highly acclaimed eBay Desktop application which won an Abode MAX award. Prior to joining OneReach.ai, Lance served as chief experience strategist at EffectiveUI, a full-service user experience agency acquired by WPP/Ogilvy.