Loading...
Expert
MenuHala Hemayssi
User Experience expertise across industries for start ups and Fortune100 delivering solid business solutions.Utilizing design thinking methods to innovate experiences by shaping better understanding of users needs, charting new forms of interaction and creating value for the bottom line.
0
Calls |
10
Reviews |
Areas of Expertise
-
HH$2/min per minuteNew ArrivalUser Experience Design and StrategyHala Hemayssi • Greater Chicago AreaCreated 12 years ago in Technology / MobileFor start ups and fortune 100.Hala Hemayssi Greater Chicago AreaNew Arrival
- Reviews 10
When it comes to Experience Design and Strategy, Hala is basically a self guided missile. Point her in the right direction, and just wait for the fireworks to begin. Whether she's conceptualizing fine line solutions, or setting design rails for journey frameworks, she will get the job done.
Source: LinkedIn Carlos Manalo Mar 5, 2013Hala is a passionate, creative and invigorating presence on any design team. She cares deeply about the user and presenting compelling, engaging brand experiences. She is an amazingly hard worker, not willing to accept her first pass, but continually refines and improves.
Source: LinkedIn Fran Diamond Mar 5, 2013Hala is a highly creative, innovative information architect/user experience designer with vision and passion. She sees the big picture and is able to take bits of information and evolve it into a user experience that will make an enormous impact on your business. A great story teller and a strategic thinker who can transform a business to a leader in its space.
Source: LinkedIn Elise Holzheimer Mar 5, 2013"Hala is one of those people that will inevitably make you better at your job. I've had the pleasure of working with Hala in several capacities in our history. As a client contact, she was by far one of the most intelligent and helpful managers I've worked with in my career. Her expertise in strategy and design, along with her willingness to take the time to provide valuable feedback about candidates was educational and refreshing. As a candidate, it's easy, because she is simply one of the best! I am also a supporter of Hala's entrepreneurial projects. The aim of connecting and educating cultures is to be commended."
Source: LinkedIn Heather Holahan Mar 5, 2013I had the unique pleasure of working on a multidisciplinary design team initiated by Hala, when she served as an Engagement Director at TandemSeven. This was for a multi-year portal project for our new client, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Chevy Chase, MD). Hala built the team to include design research and planning, user experience architecture, information architecture, technology and visual design. She helped us join with our client, their stakeholders and end-users, with the goal to carefully redesign and enhance the institute’s intranet. Hala earned my respect through her creative insights and flexible methodology, responsive to our client’s culture and development needs. Most important, she kept us focused on keeping the needs of the end-user uppermost in the forefront. Her ability to combine theory with practical application helped launch this multi-year project which ultimately, in combination with many talents provided by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, TandemSeven, and Capital Technology Partners, resulted in a Nielsen Norman Group Award (2010, International, Best Intranets). Hala’s early, dedicated efforts set the stage for research, effective design iterations and feasible technical implementations that met the needs of many user groups, both internal and external to the client organization. I learned a tremendous amount from Hala, and enjoyed her remarkable range of talents, interpersonal style, warmth and creativity, making my work on this project, exciting, challenging and rewarding.
Source: LinkedIn Andrew Schechterman, Ph.D. Mar 5, 2013Hala's passion for human experience is a special complement to her undeniable expertise in manipulating design methodology. That passion is permanantly evident in both her professional and personal life, setting her far apart from the many intelligent and capable designers in the world- designers who will do good work, but may never transform the world.
Source: LinkedIn Eric Bailey Mar 5, 2013Hala has a strong vision and tremendous commitment to creating outstanding user experiences. The brain-power energy she devotes to user experience design could light 1,000 suns!
Source: LinkedIn Fran Diamond Mar 5, 2013Hala’s infectious enthusiasm and obvious passion for design and usability were essential for building the UXD practice at Pathfinder. She’s a visionary and the best I’ve seen at analyzing a design problem and extracting from it a trainable technique that can be used by others. March 8, 2007
Top qualities: Expert, innovative and knows how to leverage her unique talent
I work closely with Hala at Pathfinder from 2004-2006.
Source: LinkedIn Paul Dittmann Mar 5, 2013Hala is one of the most driven and open-minded designers I have met, with an ability to learn quickly and adapt to new challenges rapidly and intelligently. Hala has a natural ability to lead and is strategic in her approach, understanding the big picture as well as what is needed to get the job done. Hala is a great team player with vision, talent, and passion.
Source: LinkedIn Hani Asfour Mar 5, 2013Related experts
-
APAndrew PetersDirector, User Experience Strategy at EPIC, inc. • San Francisco Bay AreaDirector, User Experience Strategy @ EPIC. Since 1995, leading innovation at global brands and smart startups. UX for Mobile Apps, Platforms, Social.Interaction Design • Startups • Product Management • Product Strategy • Lean Startups • User Experience • User Interface Design • Mobile Strategy • Mobile applications • Lean UX •$1/min per minute(1)3.0 2 18
-
WHWhitney HessUser Experience Coach • WorldwideWhitney Hess coaches business leaders on how to more mindfully and compassionately design their products, their companies and themselves. She is the author of Pleasure & Pain and the co-host of Designing Yourself. Her life’s mission is to put humanity back into business. Best known for her work with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Seamless Food Delivery and Boxee, Whitney has spent the last decade partnering with senior leaders and product teams at Fortune 500s, nonprofits and startups. Whitney graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction and a Bachelor’s in Professional Writing and HCI. She is currently pursuing a certification in Integral Coaching from New Ventures West and certification in Strategic Decision and Risk Management from Stanford University. She is a favored mentor to user experience practitioners and entrepreneurs, and has shared her message at dozens of conferences worldwide. Born to challenge the status quo, Whitney is an only child, a lefty, a redhead, a JuBu, a nomad, an ENFJ, an 8 with a 7 wing, a yogi, a locavore, a hophead, an oyster aficionado, a PEZ collector, and a pretty good rapper. A native Manhattanite, she now lives in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, CA, with her sailor Fredrick and their EPIRB. They are in the early stages of planning their circumnavigation.User Research • Product Strategy • User Experience • Public Speaking • Coaching • User Experience Design • Consulting • Usability Testing • User Experience Strategy •$4.17/min per minuteNew Arrival— — 19
-
IEIkon EcoProduct Design Lead | User Experience Strategist • San Francisco Bay AreaResourceful and creative problem solver, driven by a passion to make things intuitively obvious and to create positive impact on people’s lives through product design. Constantly striving to deliver delightful and seamless experiences across people, touchpoints and technology. With more than 12 years of experience in driving web and mobile product vision, rapidly iterating new concepts and prototypes, collaborating cross-functionally with product management, engineering and user research to ensure a smooth product development process and to lead user experience designs from conception until launch. - Extensive experience in designing large-scale web and mobile applications. - Proven track record of driving design innovation and leading teams to success. - Recognized excellence in relationship management, facilitation and presentation skills. Specialties: • User Experience Design (Web and Mobile) • Interaction Design & Information Architecture • Experience Strategy and Vision • Experience Planning & Team Facilitation • Ideation and Concept Generation • User Research & Usability Testing • Rapid PrototypingProduct Design • Interaction Design • User Experience • UX • User Interface Design • User Experience Design • Information Architecture • Wireframes • User-centered Design • Experience Strategy •$1/min per minute(1)5.0 1 1
Related experts
-
APAndrew PetersDirector, User Experience Strategy at EPIC, inc. • San Francisco Bay AreaDirector, User Experience Strategy @ EPIC. Since 1995, leading innovation at global brands and smart startups. UX for Mobile Apps, Platforms, Social.Interaction Design • Startups • Product Management • Product Strategy • Lean Startups • User Experience • User Interface Design • Mobile Strategy • Mobile applications • Lean UX •$1/min per minute(1)3.0 2 18
-
WHWhitney HessUser Experience Coach • WorldwideWhitney Hess coaches business leaders on how to more mindfully and compassionately design their products, their companies and themselves. She is the author of Pleasure & Pain and the co-host of Designing Yourself. Her life’s mission is to put humanity back into business. Best known for her work with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Seamless Food Delivery and Boxee, Whitney has spent the last decade partnering with senior leaders and product teams at Fortune 500s, nonprofits and startups. Whitney graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction and a Bachelor’s in Professional Writing and HCI. She is currently pursuing a certification in Integral Coaching from New Ventures West and certification in Strategic Decision and Risk Management from Stanford University. She is a favored mentor to user experience practitioners and entrepreneurs, and has shared her message at dozens of conferences worldwide. Born to challenge the status quo, Whitney is an only child, a lefty, a redhead, a JuBu, a nomad, an ENFJ, an 8 with a 7 wing, a yogi, a locavore, a hophead, an oyster aficionado, a PEZ collector, and a pretty good rapper. A native Manhattanite, she now lives in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, CA, with her sailor Fredrick and their EPIRB. They are in the early stages of planning their circumnavigation.User Research • Product Strategy • User Experience • Public Speaking • Coaching • User Experience Design • Consulting • Usability Testing • User Experience Strategy •$4.17/min per minuteNew Arrival— — 19
-
IEIkon EcoProduct Design Lead | User Experience Strategist • San Francisco Bay AreaResourceful and creative problem solver, driven by a passion to make things intuitively obvious and to create positive impact on people’s lives through product design. Constantly striving to deliver delightful and seamless experiences across people, touchpoints and technology. With more than 12 years of experience in driving web and mobile product vision, rapidly iterating new concepts and prototypes, collaborating cross-functionally with product management, engineering and user research to ensure a smooth product development process and to lead user experience designs from conception until launch. - Extensive experience in designing large-scale web and mobile applications. - Proven track record of driving design innovation and leading teams to success. - Recognized excellence in relationship management, facilitation and presentation skills. Specialties: • User Experience Design (Web and Mobile) • Interaction Design & Information Architecture • Experience Strategy and Vision • Experience Planning & Team Facilitation • Ideation and Concept Generation • User Research & Usability Testing • Rapid PrototypingProduct Design • Interaction Design • User Experience • UX • User Interface Design • User Experience Design • Information Architecture • Wireframes • User-centered Design • Experience Strategy •$1/min per minute(1)5.0 1 1
the startups.com platform
Copyright © 2025 Startups.com. All rights reserved.