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Emily Michels

UX Designer, Sketch, Web App Design, Responsive UI, Adobe Suite, Product Design, iOS UI Design, UI Design, Android App Design, Mobile App Design, Information Architecture (IA), Adobe Photoshop, Android, + 0 more

Since 2011, Emily has been working in UI/UX, mobile and product design leading projects for clients including Samsung, YETI, Toronto Star, Thomson Reuters, SmartThings, Pizza Hut, a blockchain company, and more. She has experience in project management and leading design teams. She enjoys working closely with engineers to deliver intuitive user experiences. Emily is a collaborative team member and positive thinker.

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Ced Funches

UX Designer, Adobe Creative Suite, User Flows, Prototyping, Brand Management, Branding, UI Design, User Interface (UI), Brand Design, Web UI, Creative Direction, 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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Mike Slone

UX Designer, Sketch, Agile, Creative Direction, Mobile UI, Responsive UI, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Responsive, Project Management, Interactive Prototypes, UI Design, Dashboard Design, Data Visualization, + 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.

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ExxonMobil Safety and Learning Platform

Reebok One Fitness Professional Web App Platform

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Luke Benjamin

UX Designer, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, User Interface (UI), Responsive, Mobile App Design, iOS, Visual Design, User Flows, Protoyping, + 0 more

Luke is a designer who loves to work on new digital products. He's been designing in multiple disciplines for over a decade and still gets excited to problem solve and work with people who are passionate about what they want to do. He's worked on many projects across multiple channels in both digital and print, specializing in product design, UI/UX design, brand identity/strategy illustration, and omnichannel marketing campaigns.

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Aaron Smith

UX Designer, Adobe CC, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, OmniGraffle, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch, Protoyping, UI Design, Visual Design, Wireframing, Product Design, + 0 more

Aaron has an MFA in new media design from AAU and has spent the past three years designing a high-growth SaaS enterprise app for Patch: a health-tech startup connecting financial and insurance accounts. He specializes in creating scalable, high-growth products for enterprise and consumer markets. He is also a member of the Design Leadership Forum with InVision working to bring design-thinking and leadership practicum to design communities.

Patch - Provider Web App

Patch - Patient Insurance Mobile Web Portal

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Amy Mew

UX Designer, Sketch, InDesign CC, Usability Testing, User Research, Sitemaps, Information Architecture (IA), User Flows, Wireframing, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Rapid Prototyping, + 0 more

Amy is a UX designer and researcher with over 15 years of professional experience working with advertising and branding agencies on projects for small startups to Fortune 500. She has worked in-house and remotely with multidisciplinary teams of all sizes to help guide a product’s functionality, development, content, and layout into an engaging, rewarding experience. Amy is always on the lookout for exciting and innovative collaborations.-

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Peter Perez Jr

UX Designer, UI Design, User Research, Wireframing, Branding, UI Branding, Prototyping, Agile, MVP Design, Blockchain, Dashboard Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Product Design, + 0 more

Peter is a senior product designer with 7+ years of experience designing user-centric digital products from conception to market. He also founded a successful subscription-based eCommerce brand and understands what it takes to build a startup from the ground up. His design decisions are primarily focused on converting and keeping users. He specializes in UX design, UI, dashboard design, productivity tools, and SAAS products.

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Job Elephant - Job Listing SAAS Platform

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Alex Crockett

UX Designer, Sketch 3, iOS, Android, Usability Testing, User Flows, User Task Flows, Web UX, App UI, Agile, Web UI, Prototyping, WordPress UX, + 0 more

Alex is a UX designer with a decade of experience helping people achieve goals using human-centered design. From working on one of the first smart TVs to an eye-tracking system for one of the first smart cars, his work is thorough and thoughtful. In addition to innovation, Alex has worked on enterprise systems and consumer applications for companies like Microsoft Games Studios, the Guardian, Boingo Wireless, and Disney.

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Enterprise Sales Dialer

Unified Consumer and Enterprise Experiences

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Jayne Vidheecharoen

UX Designer, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Flinto Prototyping, UI Design, Product Design, + 0 more

Jayne has over ten years of experience as a designer. While at ArcTouch she and her team worked on over 40 digital products for both small startups and established brands such as Hawaiian Airlines, 3M, and Guess Jeans. Her role varied from leading strategy and creative direction to being a hands-on UI and UX designer. In all cases, she worked closely with sales, product managers, developers, QA engineers, and client stakeholders.

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Denis Lesak

UX Designer, Sketch, Mobile, Product Design, Protoyping, Tablet UI, Tablet Design, Mobile UI, Web UX, Web UI, User Flows, User Research, Prototyping, + 0 more

Denis is a strategic product designer and design system advocate passionate about solving problems and creating deeply felt experiences. He advocates for a process-driven approach to design that relies equally on empathy, data, and the ability to ideate quickly. He is a deft collaborator with a reputation for consensus-building. Denis' goal is to enrich lives, one interaction at a time.

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Guide to Hiring a Great UX Designer

A user experience (UX) design expert is a multi-talented jack-of-all-trades who possess knowledge in the areas of psychology, design and technology. As with any area of design, there is a high level of subjectiveness. This guide will help remove some of the subjectivity by allowing you to discover what makes a great UX designer and help you make the right hiring decisions.

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Testimonials

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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