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Angela is a product designer located in New York City. She has a master's degree in human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. She thorough...ly enjoys talking to and spending time with her users to understand their lives, jobs, and struggles in order to design the best experience for their needs. Her main hobbies are doing portrait and real estate photography!
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Jenna is an award-winning director of design. She has partnered with clients such as Microsoft, Jaguar, UK Government, GSK, Jack Daniels and more for over 1...3 years. Her unique hybrid skills—of UI, UX, brand and product design—has seen her exceed business and user expectations time and again. Her process for success: user-focused, experience-driven, design-led.
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Andrew designs experiences, as a designer or team leader, that make a difference in people’s lives. His record includes successful redesigns, integrations,... and enhancements for digital products, services, and apps for major companies that served millions of users. Let's collaborate!
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Steven Hartwig is a New York City-based UX designer with both a computer science and design background. While currently working as the primary designer for... HBO.com, in the past he has traversed through many design environments, including startup product design, creative agencies, and large corporations.
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Louisa is an experienced UX designer and researcher in product and service design for health, education, business intelligence, and other industries. She is... skilled in UX design, user research, concept and strategy, information architecture, usability testing, and visual design. Louisa cares about why people do things, how they can do those things better, and what we can all do to care for each other, have more fun, and get more out of life.
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Roxanne has contributed to teams in a variety of roles throughout her professional history and now focuses on strategic design thinking, product design, UX/...UI/IxD, and visual identity. In taking an unconventional path and learning to learn, she has gained valuable skills and confidence navigating and leading through uncertainty.
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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 challeng...es having worked with healthcare, finance, and technology companies amongst others. Mini believes strongly 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.
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Arthur is an advertising strategist with a deep passion for design-led solutions. His master’s in advertising coupled with UX/UI design allows him to intuit...ively blend user-centric design with proof-of-concept strategies to create immersive experiences. He excels in rapidly growing, innovative organizations and enjoys solving problems rooted in research and storytelling. His aim is to help people spend less time clicking and more time doing.
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Amélie is an independent product designer, writer, and UX teacher based in New York with more than ten years of experience. She specializes in using researc...h to drive design decisions, design systems and running design sprints. Her past clients include Google, Slack, L'Oréàl, Penguin Group, and Universal McCann.
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Amy is a UX design consultant with over a decade of experience collaborating with startups to build cutting-edge products in both B2B and B2C. She tackles t...ough design problems with empathy, enthusiasm, curiosity, and a sense of humor. Having worked as an engineer, product manager, user researcher, and now a designer, she is familiar with the challenges of the product life cycle and adapts her approach to meet every client's unique needs.
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Unfortunately, it’s not possible to get every site visitor to convert. Eventually, businesses will need to turn to behavioral analytics and figure out why visitors aren’t turning into customers.
We shouldn’t listen to what customers say. Instead, we should focus on what they do. Deeper user research will allow us to find out the true needs, wants, and motivations of our customers.
Finding the right UX research participants can result in valuable insights even from a mediocre UX testing plan. UX researchers should spend the time to identify and find the right participants.
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