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Toptal is a marketplace for top remote Digital Strategists. Top companies and start-ups in Minneapolis choose Toptal Digital Strategy freelancers for their mission-critical initiatives.

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Darren Trautwein

United StatesToptal Member Since October 21, 2016

Darren is a UX leader with 25 years of applied practice providing research and design for complex transactional workflows. Leveraging executive intent and uncovering the unmet needs of users through research, he creates user experiences that capture workflow, motivate users, and are easy to use. He produces comprehensive artifacts for engineers, product managers, and designers to help articulate information architecture and user interactions.

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Aaron Shepard

United StatesToptal Member Since January 9, 2019

As a designer with 20+ years of experience, Aaron has consistently created value and produced measurable results in UX and product design. He reduced costs by $70 million at Anthem.ai, increased adoption by 600% at Deloitte, and enhanced productivity at Caterpillar. Aaron tackles complex challenges by taking a holistic approach that involves collaborating with stakeholders, aligning design with business strategy, and effectively identifying user needs to enhance the overall customer experience.

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Mariano A. Goren

MexicoToptal Member Since May 30, 2017

As a product strategy consultant, Mariano's been helping both Fortune 500 and startups to unite design and technology efforts around a common vision anchored in user needs. With more than 25 years of experience in digital business, he's able to understand and define the big picture, and then jump into the details to deliver. He's also a Singularity University mentor, serial entrepreneur, and teacher influencing 18 000+ students through his book and courses.

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Bradley Gerstein

United StatesToptal Member Since September 8, 2022

Bradley is an award-winning designer with 25 years of experience combining strategic planning, UX, and innovative design into engaging experiences that allow businesses to build enduring relationships with audiences. He has proven team management and leadership skills working throughout the product design lifecycle. Bradley creates innovative products via ethnographic research, workshop facilitation, vision creation, requirements orchestration, prototyping, branding, testing, and optimization.

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Al Blanco

United StatesToptal Member Since May 3, 2021

Al hits the ground running, uncovering insights, solving big challenges through IP-worthy innovation, applying rigorous UX methodologies and human-centered design principles. Blanco is hands-on; no prima donna here. Whether inventing new digital products, tackling automated process improvement, or finding clever ways to increase engagement through award-winning experiences, he can deliver world-class websites, mobile and tablet apps, as well as industrial and consumer software with true ROI.

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Chris Mismash

United StatesToptal Member Since September 1, 2017

Chris is an innovation-driven product design leader with over 20 years of experience. He has a proven record of driving success for enterprises and startups alike. Chris builds and leads award-winning teams and is skilled in human-centered design, UI/UX, and product management. His entrepreneurial mindset and expertise in process optimization ensure product improvement. Chris holds advanced degrees from NC State, Cambridge, and Utah and has spoken at TEDx on design thinking.

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Karen Passmore

United StatesToptal Member Since March 22, 2017

Karen is a top-notch UX designer and industry veteran working with clients like PwC, National Geographic, AOL, Sprint, and AARP to deliver responsive UX designs for apps, websites, back-end data applications, and knowledge management systems. She runs workshops, develops product roadmaps, and provides world-class UX designs based on deep thinking, research, and user testing.

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Johnnie Aiello

Freelance Digital Strategist
United StatesToptal Member Since April 1, 2020

Johnnie is an award-winning product designer with 10+ years of experience. He specializes in strategic design to solve business challenges. He has designed and directed digital experiences for the likes of HPE, Curaçao, ofo, Drive Shack, and John Guest. He was previously Head of Interactive and UX at Catch New York where he built the UX department, managed a team of designers and developers, and worked closely with clients’ executive teams.

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Adam Connelly

United StatesToptal Member Since June 18, 2018

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.

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Scott Benson

CanadaToptal Member Since April 11, 2017

Scott has over a decade of experience in UX/UI design and front-end development—working on everything from large-scale government and public sector sites to applications for startups and small businesses. He's also completed his user experience (UX) certification with Nielsen Norman Group and is a Google Analytics certified professional. Scott brings a strong background in strategy, research, design, and development to every project.

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Raymond Sharma

CanadaToptal Member Since January 30, 2018

Ray is an award-winning, multidisciplinary experience designer, online and off, with 20+ years of experience delivering valuable, usable, engaging, and rewarding experiences for all. He has led organizations and teams, managed products and projects, and worked hands-on to provide design leadership, design thinking strategies, UX research, UX design, interaction design, and creative UI designs.

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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

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

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

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

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.

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CTO

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