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Kate Valdes
User Research Designer, Sketch, UX Audits, Figma, High-fidelity Mockups, Adobe CC, High-fidelity Prototypes, iOS, Interactive Prototypes, Android, Personas, WordPress, Mobile App Design,Â
With 15 years of design industry experience, Kate has produced successful digital experiences for both startups and well-known name brands alike, such as Netflix and BlackLine. This includes projects across industries and platforms. Leveraging her background in user research, Kate is able to bridge the gap between strategy and experience, integrating design thinking into the most complex of workflows.
Show MoreKarina Kozinsky
User Research Designer, UX Design, UI Design, Information Architecture (IA), Visual Design, Sketch, Figma, iOS, Android, Web,Â
Karina is a full-stack UI/UX designer with a psychology and industrial design background. She enjoys working on really complex consumer-facing products, diving deep into the domain. Her expertise also includes research and ideation, prototyping and user testing, visual design and branding, building and maintaining design systems, handling the product from the ground up. She works closely with cross-functional partners to create the best experiences possible and ensure alignment.
Show MoreDeborah Dennis
User Research Designer, User Flows, Product Design, User Experience (UX), Web App UX, User Interviews, Usability Testing, UX Audits, User Interface (UI), Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Wireframing, SaaS Design, Prototyping,Â
Deborah is a UX design and research expert, analyzing users' needs and crafting creative and engaging interaction designs for over 20 years. Well-versed in transforming complex products into simple, easy-to-use interfaces, Deborah's worked for 11 companies via Toptal in the last eight years. She's been a design lead for Colgate's SaaS, Silicon Valley Bank, Caterpillar IoT, ASU Pocket, Dermalogica Face Mapping, SterlingNOW, and OUTFRONT Media's digital ads app.
Show MoreKai Brunner
User Research Designer, Information Architecture (IA), Wireframing, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, UI Design, UX Design, User Interface (UI), Product Design, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UX Strategy, Dashboard Design, User Experience (UX),Â
Kai is a seasoned product design leader specializing in enterprise web and mobile applications that consumerize the user experience of complex systems. He has 15+ years of design experience in funded startups and was four years top product in Gartner MQ and Forrester Wave. Kai develops design partnerships inside and outside the organization for effective collaboration and continuous feedback.
Show MoreAngela Liu
User Research Designer, Sketch, Product Design, Figma, Prototyping, Web Design, UX Design, PowerPoint Design,Â
Angela is a product designer at Oscar Health. She has a master's degree in human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. Angela thoroughly 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.
Show MoreVesna Planko
User Research Designer, Lean UX, UX Design, User Interface (UI), UI Design, Product Design, Mobile App Design, Sketch, Branding, Web Design, Rapid Prototyping, UX Principles, Web,Â
Designing fintech and business applications is Vesna's passion, and she is a design leader with 15 years of experience. She has a customer-centric approach by combining design thinking, product intuition, and business proficiency to help teams find meaningful solutions. This includes finding user needs, building empathy, articulating ideas through great storytelling, and leading creative direction for large-scale projects.
Show MoreWandi Liu
User Research Designer, Figma, Product Design, Visual Design, UX Design, Brand Design,Â
Over the past decade, Wandi has worked in-house and as an independent designer for Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins, and Greylock-backed companies in San Francisco and New York. Her areas of expertise include designing for cross-platform products, establishing and maintaining design systems, project management, user research, and growth optimization. Wandi studied computer science and linguistics at UCLA, where her background and interest lies in empirical research, systems design, and HCI.
Show MoreJames Tucker
User Research Designer, Sketch, Personas, Adobe Illustrator, UX, Adobe Photoshop, Prototyping, UX Flows, UX Research, Wireframing, UX Design, UI Design, Web App UX,Â
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 user's naturally intuitive adoption of the UI. James fuses cognitive science techniques with clever interaction design to create products people love.
Show MoreDenis Lesak
User Research Designer, Sketch, Mobile, UX Flows, Product Design, Mobile UI, Web UI, User Interviews, User Flows, User Journey Maps, Prototyping, Figma,Â
Denis is a strategic W3 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. Denis is a deft collaborator with a reputation for consensus-building. His goal is to enrich lives, one interaction at a time.
Show MoreRaphael McDonnell
User Research Designer, Sketch, User Interface (UI), Wireframing, Product Design, iOS, UX Flows, UI Design, Branding, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, eCommerce, Prototyping,Â
Raphael is an award-winning digital product designer and product manager focused on UI/UX and strategy. With decades of experience working on multi-platform products for companies in the entertainment, gaming, pharmaceutical, and SaaS industries, such as Netflix, HBO, 2K, Riot Games, SAP, Pfizer, and early-stage startups. Raphael's approach to human behavior and user-centered design allows him to solve problems—ultimately helping to shape and make digital products better.
Show MoreAndrea Fratto
User Research Designer, Axure RP Pro, Sketch, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Digital Product Design, User Journey Maps, iOS, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Information Architecture (IA), UX Prototyping, Interactive Prototypes, Mobile Web,Â
Andrea started her career as a front-end developer with a natural progression to UX strategy, design, and management. Her work with agencies, consultancies, and startups spans all methods of discovering and defining how a product will live in this world and matter in people's lives. She's a hands-on lead whose design methods span remote/field research, collaborative workshops, IA, flows, wires/prototype, and design optimization cycles. She believes the craft of UX is head+heart+hands.
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