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Ena Bacanovic

Mobile App 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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Michael Dedrick

Mobile App Designer, Sketch, iOS, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Wireframing, Art Direction, Blockchain, iOS UI Design, Android UI Design, Branding, Illustration, Icon Design, + 0 more

In Michael's world, users always come first. He possesses the proven ability to develop highly-effective strategic marketing collateral for high-end clients, including Apple, IBM, L’Oreal, Fidelity, Bud Light, Home Depot, Costco, and Walmart. He's committed to connecting with clients and users—and bringing their vision to life effectively across a broad, far-reaching spectrum of media.

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James Tucker

Mobile App Designer, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Prototyping, UX Research, Wireframing, UX Design, UI Design, Web App UX, Information Architecture (IA), User Flows, + 0 more

James is an idea machine and master problem-solver when it comes to user interfaces. He is passionate about making users love the product because of the naturally intuitive adoption the user has with the UI. James fuses cognitive science techniques with clever interaction design to make products people love.

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Daniel Sigvardsson

Mobile App Designer, Sketch, Visual Design, App UI, Identity Design, Mobile Web, Branding, Art Direction, Web Design, Brand Design, Figma, + 0 more

Daniel is an award-winning multi-disciplinary designer. His passion lies in working with startups to create clear images of who they are and helps visualize problems they are trying to solve. Daniel will work with you or your team to identify and develop the assets your company needs to get off the ground. In solving design challenges, the main priority is always making your business grow.

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Danny Walcoff

Mobile App Designer, Sketch, Visual Design, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Web UI, Web UX, App UX, App UI, + 0 more

Danny is a San Francisco based designer with over 10 years of experience. He spent 3 and a half years at Uber designing complex data tools as well as the core app used by millions of drivers worldwide. He holds a U.S. patent for his work on a dashboard interface designed at VMware. Danny loves working directly with clients to create experiences that bring unprecedented simplicity and accessibility to the most complex problems.

Uber: Driver Earnings

Uber: Driver Onboarding in Emerging Markets

Uber: CSR Platform Concept

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Warren Lebovics

Mobile App Designer, Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshop, iOS, Web, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Visual Design, Web App Design, Web App UX, Web App UI, + 0 more

Warren is a product designer with a decade of design leadership and consulting experience. Warren has led design in-person and remote teams and projects at companies large and small, including LinkedIn, Sony, Blackberry, Jumpstart, and more. Warren also has experience co-founding companies and taking companies through funding and acquisitions. He communicates extremely well and can lead and execute with teams of all sizes.

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Phil Wall

Mobile App Designer, Sketch, Android, iOS, iOS App Design, App UX, User Journey Maps, Protoyping, Platform Design, Web UX, Agile UX, + 0 more

Phil is a product manager and UX designer whose work has led to an IPO, acquisition, and a top Android app. He's led large enterprise initiatives in healthcare, HR, sales, and big data—delivering on multimillion-dollar contracts to customers like Google, Walmart, AT&T, and Tesla. He is also a founder himself; having built a consumer product used by millions. Phil is detail-oriented, business-focused, and loves working on teams!

B2B2C Registration - Castlight Health

Enterprise Knowledge Base with Network Effects

Enterprise Engagement

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Chris Peterson

Mobile App Designer, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), UX Design, UI Design, App UX, App UI, Mockups, Prototyping, Product Design, Visual Design, + 0 more

Chris is a UX and UI designer with over twenty years of experience in consumer and enterprise applications. He worked with Google to restructure and design their help system, created Clarizen’s enterprise mobile apps, and designed a white-label consumer mobile app for Accesso now deployed at parks and resorts across North America. Chris specializes in structure, user flows, wireframing, and design for both mobile and web.

Resort Guest Mobile App

Resort App Management

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Courtney Beyer

Mobile App Designer, Sketch, UX Design, iOS UI Design, Prototyping, Product Design, + 0 more

Courtney is a product designer specializing in user experience and interaction design for apps, web apps, and IoT. She is deeply driven by service projects that upgrade an organization’s processes and help people get their work done more efficiently and eliminate waste. She's worked with small startups to large companies helping them develop and redesign their digital products. Her deep interests are in healthcare, energy, and the environment.

Healthcare Bill Paying App

Datavest: Investment App Redesign

Healthcare Insurance Customer Support System

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Lance Shields

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

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Besure - Reinventing Insurance Through Crowdfunding

That's Not Cool - Webby Award Winner

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Guide to Hiring a Great Mobile App Designer

This guide deals with mobile application design and its goal is to provide clients with information on mobile design, and help them recognize a top notch mobile designer. It touches on multiple aspects of mobile application development, some or all of which will be relevant to the specific context in which you are looking to hire.

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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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