Hire the Best Product Designers Near Chicago

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Isaac Kadosh

Product Designer, Adobe Photoshop, User Interface (UI), Illustration, eCommerce Design, eCommerce UI, Iconography, Platform Design, Brand Guidelines, Mobile UI, iOS App Design, UI Design, Branding, 

United StatesToptal Member Since September 19, 2017

Isaac is a UX strategist who helps startups and enterprises gain value and competitive advantage via product strategy and design. He's worked with a wide range of startups and brands like Wix, Dynamic Team Sports, Shop Your Way, Doogma, and two of the largest companies based in Chicago, IL: Sears and Walgreens. Isaac also defines product/UX strategies and designs user-centric experiences for eCommerce, healthcare, automotive, and SaaS.

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Ruta Shastri

Product Designer, iOS, Android, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), UX Strategy, 

United StatesToptal Member Since December 10, 2018

Ruta is a creative and human-centered designer with two decades of experience working for agencies, startups, NGOs, and corporations. Creating thoughtful and meaningful experiences that help solve complex problems is her passion. Ruta aims to find a balance between business goals, user needs, and technical feasibility in all her projects and enjoys working on both the macro and micro levels of the customer journey.

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Gabriel Maldonado

Product Designer, Figma, User Personas, SaaS, Design Systems, eCommerce UX, Mobile Applications, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Usability Testing, Mobile, Sketch, 

United StatesToptal Member Since March 28, 2019

Gabriel has an MBA in digital media management and spent a year overseeing the planning and execution of the first native mobile app for Sears Corporation. He specializes in UI/UX human-centered design solutions on internal and external platforms, offering maximum visibility and efficiency for clients. Gabriel also enhanced CareerBuilder's client platform based on extensive design research and UI/UX best practices.

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Gail Rankin

Product Designer, Figma, Sketch, User Experience (UX), UX Research, Mobile UX Design, User Flows, Prototyping, UI Design, UX Design, Wireframing, Rapid Prototyping, Responsive Web Design (RWD), 

United StatesToptal Member Since October 21, 2022

Gail is a UX design leader with over 11 years of experience. She's highly skilled at uncovering user needs and creating solutions that serve business and user goals. She is most experienced in eCommerce, application software, and customer service. Gail easily solves complex user scenarios by exercising UX strategy skills like user journey maps, user flows, system maps, and service blueprints.

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Nick Bennett

Product Designer, Sketch 4, OmniGraffle, UI Design, UX Design, Rapid Prototyping, Information Architecture (IA), Wireframing, 

United StatesToptal Member Since May 4, 2020

Now providing consulting in product design and UX, Nick has over 16 years of experience conceptualizing and crafting digital products. He has worked in a variety of different industries including eCommerce, SaaS, DaaS, consumer banking, direct sales, and B2B. Competent in designing enterprise software, he is also proficient in desktop, mobile, and native application product design.

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Andy Leverenz

Product Designer, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, User Experience (UX), UX Design, Web Design, Web App Design, Visual Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Interactive Prototypes, Mockups, UI Components, 

United StatesToptal Member Since February 18, 2022

Andy is a man of many hats. He enjoys bringing ideas to life using all types of artistic mediums. By day, he is a product designer and developer. On the side, Andy is also an entrepreneur and writer. He has created new SaaS-based products, delivered complete marketing makeovers, and taught others to design and code. Andy has created a publication with 100,000+ impressions a month and a YouTube channel with over 18,000 subscribers and over two million views.

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Joseph Atwood

Product Designer, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Figma, Sketch, Photoshop CC, User Flows, Experience Design, UI Design, Project Management, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, UX Architecture, UX Design, 

United StatesToptal Member Since November 15, 2022

Joe is an experienced designer who focuses on putting users at the center of the design process, creating custom experience solutions around their needs while keeping other stakeholders' requirements in mind. His 25+ years working in UI, UX, design, product development, and marketing have enabled him to confront complex problems and move customers' journeys forward. Joe's vast experience encompasses research, architecture, user flows, high-fidelity prototypes, and collaterals.

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Aaron Neumann

Product Designer, Digital Product Design, Presentation Design, Paper Prototyping, InDesign CC, InVision, Usability Testing, User Experience (UX), Sketch, 

United StatesToptal Member Since December 11, 2017

Aaron is a user experience designer who has designed for large enterprises, small local digital agencies, startups, marketing agencies, and nonprofit organizations including IBM, WordPress, Samsung, Comcast Business, Merkle, and the American Institute of Architects. Versed in solving complex challenges for enterprise software, he also designs consumer mobile, tablet, and website experiences.

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Chris Blanz

Product Designer, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Creative Direction, Logo Design, Platform Design, UX Strategy, Mobile UX, Mobile App UI, Responsive Web Design (RWD), 

United StatesToptal Member Since March 8, 2021

Chris creates user-friendly digital experiences that inform, instruct, and inspire. He can serve multiple roles for a single project, including UX strategist, UX designer, UI designer, and copywriter, creating everything from concept sketches to high-fidelity, interactive prototypes. As a hands-on team leader, Chris has created award-winning campaigns for brands like Band-Aid, Cracker Barrel, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, MIT, The Washington Post, LEGO, and National Geographic.

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Alexander Russell

Product Designer, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Rapid Prototyping, Adobe Creative Suite, Agile, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Web Design, Adobe Illustrator, UI Design, UX Design, Mobile Prototypes, 

United StatesToptal Member Since June 16, 2016

Alex is a product designer who wants to work with you. He partners with startups, organizations, and agencies to rethink design strategies or invent new ones. Alex has helped startups receive collectively over $2 million in funding. He also co-operates a research and design collective called Collectively Made.

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Erin Stewart

Product Designer, UX Audits, Web UX, Web UI, Mobile UI, Mockups, SaaS, SaaS Design, Software as a Service (SaaS), App UX, Figma, Web App UI, Usability Testing, 

United StatesToptal Member Since December 2, 2015

Erin has over ten years of experience in product design and agile product management, leading various responsive web and native app projects for eCommerce, B2C, and B2B organizations. She works with the US and global organizations ranging from startups to large Fortune 500 companies to create inspired and innovative products. She also enjoys helping build out new, agile product teams and is well versed in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban.

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Michael is an incredible designer, and has been a great fit for our project. He just gets it in a way that can’t be taught. My goal was to pay Toptal to find me a high quality designer for my project, and that is exactly what happened. It was easy. Being able to see the portfolio work on Toptal’s platform is what gave me the infomation I needed to choose Michael. I have nothing but good things to say about Toptal and am looking forward to using Toptal for other projects in the future.

Edward Daniel, Co-Founder

improvemygun.com

I've worked very closely with Martina for over a year and have to say she is one of the best people I have ever worked with. Instead of simply following instructions blindly, she thinks through the task at hand, becoming a thought partner to help with whatever the project may be. Besides being super talented at design, she possesses specific qualities that make her exceptional to work with given the fast paced nature of being a startup. I would definitely recommend her to anyone looking for a talented, professional designer who doesn't need much direction to hit the ground running.

Sahil Khanna, Sr. Manager, Marketing

LeanTaaS, Inc.

Darko did a great job figuring out the user architecture for our concept, which led him to produce terrific wireframes. His knowledge of usability and design was a perfect match for the outside voice we needed to help jumpstart our project. We would certainly recommend him and work with him again in the future.

Rich Danker, Founder

Prose Market

Carlos has the unique talent of blending both quantitative and qualitative research to keenly identify UX challenges and opportunities. He thinks methodically, emphatically, and holistically to produce data-driven strategies and well-executed designs. Over the past 8 years of working with fully or partially distributed teams, Carlos manages working remotely far better than anyone I've encountered because of his strong communication and presentation skills. He is the first on my list the next time I need a UX designer.

Michelle Krogmeier, Project Manager

Union Station

Rafael is an amazing designer. His aesthetic sense is spot on, and he seems to be able to anticipate our needs before we even know what they are. He's taken the time to understand both our company and our clientele, and his solutions are consistently in-line with our values, interests, and our customers' needs. He delivers on time (if not earlier), works quickly, is well organized, and very effective. He's a pleasure to work with, and we're very happy to have found him through Toptal.

Ethan Brooks, CTO

Langlotz Patent & Trademark Works, Inc.

Toptal gave us access to the best designers out there. They’re not easy to find. Those designers integrated very quickly with our existing teams. They very quickly understood our business case and the value of our solution. Toptal really allowed us to focus on building the best possible product and save a lot of time on the typical administrative pains that goes with it -- specifically, finding the best talent. Toptal designers were very responsive, always online -- and that made life very easy for us. We have ambitious goals on how to grow the application and already Toptal has been a key contributor to that success.

Thierry Jakircevic, General Manager, Digital Solutions, Bridgestone Head Office, Tokyo

Bridgestone Corporation

We had an amazing experience working with our Toptal designer. In only two weeks, we accomplished what would've taken most companies 3 months to complete. We also enjoyed working with the Toptal team to make sure we were paired up with the right designer that would fit both our company culture and working style.

Ted Blosser, Head of Sales and Customer Success

WorkRamp

Dean blew us away. He ranks right up there as one of the top five designers of the hundreds I have worked with in the past. He listened, was totally professional, and came up with a 3D rotating cube design completely on his own. We didn't even ask for it, and yet it has become the centerpiece of our app and how users engage with it right off the bat. What he produced inspired all of us at Votify, and put us on track for launch and investor funding.

Michael Lawrence, Founder & CEO

Votify LLC

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A Toptal director of design will work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics.
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Within days, we'll introduce you to the right product designer for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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Work with your new product designer for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they're the right fit before starting the engagement.

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