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Rachel Gelb
UX Researcher
Rachel is a product designer passionate about improving human experiences through technology and user-centered approaches. With 10+ years of experience, she has worked with startups and FAANG companies and has led research and product design efforts to improve the companies' goals and understand UX problems. Rachel has worked in industries ranging from autonomous vehicles, marketing automation, fintech, ads, and recruitment platforms, to name a few.




Mini Kim
UX Researcher
Mini has worked with a diverse array of clients for over a decade in New York City. She enjoys learning about different industries and their unique challenges, having worked with healthcare, finance, and technology companies, amongst others. Mini strongly believes that UX is about collaboration between the business, users, and technology. In every project, she uses various UX methods and deliverables to get the best results.




Brian Pagán, EngD, MSc
UX Researcher
Brian is a US ex-pat working as a human experience designer focused on healthcare, sustainability, fintech, and IoT. For 20 years, Brian helped startups and businesses like Philips, ING, Land Life Company, and WaitWhat turn innovation strategies into award-winning products and services. His specialties include prototyping, behavioral design, and UX strategy. Brian has given talks and workshops in 12 countries. His first book, The Creative Empathy Field Guide, is available in ebook and paperback.




Georgina Vega
UX Researcher
Georgina is a user researcher with over 10 years of experience, leading projects across Latin America and the US to help companies scale their business by understanding their consumers' rational and emotional minds. She has worked with big companies like Despegar and startups like CookUnity. Georgina holds a bachelor's degree in international affairs and has a strong background in B2B and B2C projects across the fashion, travel, hospitality, health and well-being, and food industries.

Anton Roolaart
UX Researcher
Anton is an award-winning creative UX leader with more than 20 years of experience designing user experiences. He is skillful in UX strategy, design, processes, user research, and prototyping, promoting design thinking methodologies. Anton's previous clients spring from various industries, including JPMorgan Chase Bank, Pfizer (site intelligence for clinical trials), Newmind (legal firm), Epidemic Sound (music licensing), Sirius Energy (alternative energy), Monex (fintech), Hilton, and more.




Johnnie Wagman
UX Researcher
Johnnie is a senior researcher, strategist, and service designer. Her engineering and business education make her an excellent fit for physical and digital design projects spanning industries. Johnnie specializes in early-stage design and innovation, and her skills also include workshop facilitation.




Thomas Buisson
UX Researcher
Highly organized, hard-working, and self-motivated, Thomas possesses a true intrapreneurial mindset. He has experience on the strategic design side and in scaling a team while continuing to own the entire UI/UX process. Thomas wants to pursue a career working on exciting digital projects that positively impact our generation and future generations.




Christine Esoldo
UX Researcher
Christine is a multidisciplinary creative UX designer with skills in illustration, copywriting, and branding who holds an MFA in product design. She has 15 years of experience at companies like CrowdStrike, Lowe's Home Improvement, The Hershey Company, and Dell. She uses design thinking processes to discover user needs, define value and fit with proofs-of-concept and MVPs, and iteratively improve and redesign products through testing and experiments.




Kristijan Binski
UX Researcher
Kris is a senior digital product designer and UX mentor with a passion for creating simple yet powerful user-centered interfaces for digital products. He has over 13 years of experience working with creative agencies, startups, entrepreneurs, and well-established enterprise companies. Along the way, Kirs has had a chance to design solutions for industry leaders such as Adobe, Colgate, Dermalogica, Johnson & Johnson, Rogers, IT Central Station, Oracle, HP, IBM, and others.




Kim Eun Kyung
UX Researcher
Eun Kyung is a multi-cultural, all-rounded product designer based in Singapore with more than 10 years of experience. She has worked with various enterprises and startups in US and Singapore. As a seasoned product designer, she is specialized in finding easy-to-use solutions to complex problems.




Dmitry Chernov
UX Researcher
Dmitry, a web & product architect with 14 years of experience, specializes in enhancing websites for founders through design and conversion strategies. He conducts audits across brand, UX, UI, and conversion, resulting in 70+ actionable insights within 2 business days. Dmitry has managed 170+ projects and contributed to over $2 billion in client ecosystem sales. His expertise spans AI/ML, B2B SaaS, Dev Tools, and Web3, making him a valuable asset to tech founders seeking impactful solutions.




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