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Adam Connelly

Creative Direction Designer, Web, Art Direction, Interactive Design, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Digital, Adobe CC, + 0 more

Adam has deep experience in interaction design, graphic design, digital marketing, social media, influencer marketing, and advertising. His past clients include Apple, eBay, Microsoft, Pixar, Levi's, Barbie, Kraft, Coors, Williams-Sonoma, PayPal, Nike, and Lululemon. He's visually voracious, obsessed with aesthetics, and just wants to make everything more beautiful.

Apple Education Site

Apple Watch | Close Your Rings

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Mike Slone

Creative Direction Designer, Sketch, User Experience (UX), Agile, UX Direction, App UX, Mobile UI, Responsive UI, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Responsive, Project Management, UX Research, UX Design, + 0 more

Mike is a highly experienced and successful product, UX, UI, visual, and branding designer with many years of experience creating large- and small-scale designs. He has worked for global clients in many industries including ExxonMobil, Reebok, Taco Bell, Nike, and many others. He has also provided his design leadership and experience to startups in healthcare, higher education, and SaaS companies.

Southwest Airlines Mobile App

ExxonMobil Safety and Learning Platform

Reebok One Fitness Professional Web App Platform

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Ced Funches

Creative Direction Designer, Adobe Creative Suite, User Flows, Prototyping, Brand Management, Branding, UI Design, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Brand Design, Web UI, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, + 0 more

Ced is a performance-driven creative marketing executive with deep experience in media, entertainment, and technology. He has a proven track record of successfully building, managing, and optimizing products and brands. Ced focuses on innovation, strategy, and data-driven insights across both traditional and digital-focused marketing to deliver results and business growth for Vox, The Verge, and Eater, to name a few.

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Brad Burke

Creative Direction Designer, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, iOS, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Branding, iOS App Design, Logo Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Identity Design, Brand Guidelines, + 0 more

Brad is a passionate digital creative director and product designer with over eleven years of professional experience building brands and digital platforms. He's worked at some of the most highly awarded advertising agencies in the industry including R/GA, AKQA, Razorfish, and Saatchi & Saatchi. His client list includes Nike, Acura, Toyota, Vizio, and countless others. He focuses on designing delightfully intuitive products and experiences.

Acura.com | Redesign

Music Impacts | Mobile App

Citadel & Citadel Securities | Redesign

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Cristian Strittmatter

Creative Direction Designer, Brand Design, Brand Identity, Product Design, UI Design, UI Animation, Adobe CC, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Oil Painting, WordPress Design, + 0 more

Cris understands the craft involved in creating something powerful as well as the effort needed to get there. He's led teams of art directors and designers to create work on behalf of well-known brands like Honda, Volkswagen, Adidas, and Microsoft, among others. He is able to deliver a spectrum of work that identifies the core purpose behind a product and its brand. Cris strives to find a balance between functional needs and emotional response.

Microsoft | Atmosphere

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Danielle Riley

Creative Direction Designer, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, UX Design, UI Design, Visual Design, Prototyping, Web Design, Art Direction, + 0 more

Danielle is a seasoned multidisciplinary creative director with over a decade of experience building strategic, data-driven designs, advocating for the user, and leading creative teams. She specializes in crafting UX/UI designs and is a communicative collaborator who has worked in teams of all sizes.

SmartBug Media Website and Rebranding

The New Contour Web Design

HumanGood Website

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Ana Medina

Creative Direction Designer, Visual Design Language, Sketch 3, Adobe Creative Suite, iOS, UX Principles, Visual Design, User Interviews, User Flows, Web UI, Usability Testing, Experience Maps, Personas, + 0 more

Ana helps companies solve UX problems and create meaningful experiences through user-centered design. Her goal is to help brands connect with their users through delightful product interactions.

Redefining Personalized Online Education.

Improving Multi-channel, Marketing Campaigns.

Scaling Asset Management Across Devices.

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Ena Bacanovic

Creative Direction Designer, Sketch, Branding, Web Design, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, User Interface (UI), Logo Design, Product Design, Digital Design, Brand Design, Identity Design, Corporate Identity, + 0 more

Specializing in simple, meaningful, and user-driven experiences for screen and print, Ena is a detail-oriented designer with several years of experience working with teams and companies of all sizes—Elevate Labs, Five, PowerToFly, Fiktiv—across diverse platforms and disciplines. Some of her notable clients include Magnolia, Marco Polo, Choice Hotels, Stephen Hawking, TechCrunch, among others. She’s also the founder of the Design Blog and ONNO.

New Wave London

S-A Minimal Web Store

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Lance Shields

Creative Direction Designer, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Axure RP Pro, InDesign CC, WordPress, UX Design, UI Design, Branding, Product Design, UX Strategy, Web Design, + 0 more

Lance is an award-winning design director, product designer, and UX strategist with an MBA. He has 20+ years experience doing hands-on UX/UI design and leading design and strategy at three global agencies, two Fortune 500s, and his own design agency. He has helped shape products and brands for Adobe, Red Bull, Visa, Zipcar, and ADP. His work has won multiple awards including Webby, W3, and Davey Awards. He loves solving complex design problems.

Fitbit - Innovative Digital Retail App

Besure - Reinventing Insurance Through Crowdfunding

That's Not Cool - Webby Award Winner

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Muwuso Mkochi

Creative Direction Designer, Art Direction, Web Design, UI Design, User Interface (UI), Branding, Mobile App Design, Adobe Creative Suite, Product Design, Visual Design, User Experience (UX), Corporate Identity, eCommerce Design, + 0 more

Muwuso is a multidisciplinary designer with key focuses in digital product design, brand development, and creative direction. Over the past decade, he has led design in-house and remotely for some of the world's leading agencies and brands. He is constantly inspired by the evolution of technology, its influence on human behavior, and the resulting impact on environments and micro-cultures—whether societal or business.

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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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