Interaction Design – Advice from Experts

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Interaction Design

Ben Sykes

Austin, Texas

$300.0/min 5.0 95 $5/min

20+ Years of designing, building and launching digital products - Mentor, Product Designer. Former @Google @Microsoft @Cisco. Startup founder, advisor, and investor.

Kai Gradert

California

$300.0/min 4.9 19 $5/min

Previous senior design lead at AngelList, Google, and Adobe. I have successfully designed software products for Google, Intel, Adobe, Frog Design, Apple, Levis, Lego Group, MetaTools. Startup founder, advisor, and investor.

Greg Schwartz

San Francisco

$150.0/min 5.0 9 $2.5/min

User Experience Design for web and iOS, and Coaching for Online Dating. I also do User Research, Data Visualization, and speak about the Quantified Self. Eagle Scout.

Joey Coleman

Minneapolis, Minnesota

$500.0/min 5.0 6 $8.33/min

When organizations like Hyatt Hotels, NASA, Deloitte, Volkswagen Australia, and Zappos need to boost the experience of their customers and employees, they call on Joey Coleman for assistance. For almost twenty years, Joey has helped organizations retain their best customers and top employees - turning them into raving fans via his entertaining and actionable keynotes, workshops, and consulting projects. His First 100 Days ® methodology (detailed in his #2 Wall Street Journal Best Selling Book - Never Lose a Customer Again) helps fuel successful customer experience endeavors at companies and organizations around the world. His upcoming book (Never Lose an Employee Again - Spring 2023) will offer a framework for engaging and retaining your top team members. As a recognized expert in customer and employee experience design and an award-winning speaker at national and international conferences, Joey specializes in creating unique, attention-grabbing experiences. He works with companies ranging from small VC- funded start-ups, to large Fortune 500s, with hundreds of mid-size businesses in between. Joey developed his narrative skills as a criminal defense trial attorney, advised and counseled Fortune 500 companies as a business consultant, and honed his communications and messaging skills at the White House. His design and artwork has been displayed in museums, featured in juried shows, and graced publications in the U.S. and abroad. When not traveling the world (50 countries and counting) for keynote presentations, client workshops, and quality beach time, Joey enjoys spending time at his home in the midwest, building LEGO sets and reading bedtime stories with his wife and two young sons.

Sara Vienna

West Coast

$300.0/min 5.0 16 $5/min

Branding, UX, physical + digital product @ secret start ups. Formerly @hugeinc. Clients include luxury brands, Fortune 500 companies, fashion houses, cosmetics companies, museums and think tanks. I build both products and teams – consistently shipping experiences that deliver on business goals and user needs.

Lily Tse

Toronto, Canada Area

$500.0/min 5.0 19 $8.33/min

Eco-preneur, Design Activist, Founder / CEO at Think Dirty®, award-winning art director with 13 years experience in Interaction, UX/UI, Design, Marketing and Advertising. Avid beauty labels reader, passionate about educating users and advising brands on non-toxic, sustainable beauty.

Matthew Thomas

Greater Atlanta Area

$150.0/min 5.0 6 $2.5/min

I look forward to talking with you about iOS Development and guiding you in the right direction. Since I've just joined Clarity, I am offering a few calls for free via my VIP link https://clarity.fm/matthewddthomas/chief981 to establish credibility; after that my rate will return to normal. I am a mobile iOS Developer and founder of BoCoSoft, Inc. I've created more than 10 apps on the App Store, and consulted on many more. Please check out my online resume at www.matthewddthomas.wordpress.com

Edwin Veelo

San Francisco Bay Area

$150.0/min 5.0 5 $2.5/min

Advertising veteran in digital and integrated advertising, marketing and branding. Founder and President of Fitura, an organic supplements company. Mentor to tech and health food startups. Lover of all things entrepreneurial, from inventing new products and services, crafting business models to defining user experiences and designing interfaces.

Ix .

Austin, Texas

$150.0/min 5.0 10 $2.5/min

UX expert with 20 years doing research, strategy, and design. Ex-Honeywell, Adaptive Path, and Microsoft. Freelancer, habitual starter-upper.

Kevin Cheng

San Francisco, California

$200.0/min 4.9 14 $3.33/min

Not a ninja, rockstar, or guru. Co-Founder of Donna/Incredible Labs. Past: Product lead for #NewTwitter, Director of User Experience and Product Strategy at Raptr, Designer of Yahoo! Pipes. Ask me about product, design, comics, or whatever.

Andrés Max

Colombia

$100.0/min 4.2 6 $1.67/min

Software Engineer + UX Designer + SaaS produt strategist. I help tech founders build their remote teams as CEO @ideawareco. 12+ years experience working with startups and fortune 500's.

Zvonimir Moric

Chicago

$60.0/min 5.0 1 $1/min

Worked in the Lightbank.com ecosystem for many years. Seasoned Creative Director, Art Director, and Designer with over 13 years of experience. Information architecture, design, pitch decks, and more.

Ikon Eco

San Francisco Bay Area

$60.0/min 5.0 1 $1/min

Resourceful 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 Prototyping

Andrew Peters

San Francisco Bay Area

$60.0/min 3.0 18 $1/min

Director, User Experience Strategy @ EPIC. Since 1995, leading innovation at global brands and smart startups. UX for Mobile Apps, Platforms, Social.

Nate Chen

Greater San Diego Area

$200.0/min 5.0 1 $3.33/min

16+ Years UX Design Experience. 10 years Managing and leading teams. Currently Mentoring 25+ UI/UX Designers @Springboard Former @VA.Gov @AARP @IBM @UCSD. Select Client/Partner: Urban Outfitter, Anthropologie, American Apparel, and NASA

Steven Hoober

Kansas City, Missouri Area

$150.0/min 5.0 8 $2.5/min

Steven Hoober wrote the book on mobile design patterns, and is best known for his ongoing research into how people really use touchscreen phones and tablets. He has been doing mobile and multi-channel design since 1999, designing among the earliest mobile app stores and the first Google mobile search.

Christopher Wallace

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

$200.0/min 5.0 4 $3.33/min

Chris is a founding partner of Lift UX, a user experience design & second screen app development company. He's a designer and developer with experience in WordPress development, leading a small virtual team, building software with a remote team, responsive design, developing for high-traffic websites and more. His team has built award-winning and Emmy-nominated products, constantly pushing the boundaries of technology and innovation. Chris has a wide range of experience designing and building websites for household names like Enterprise Rent-A-Car, AMC tv (The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad), WE tv, IFC, The Next Web, eBay and more. Chris has experience with growing and selling web properties with multiple verticals: upthemes.com, 365psd.com, designmoo.com, and mylibros.com. Topics: managing remote teams, WordPress development, web-based software development, process design, user experience design, branding, second screen app development.

Todd Levy

Cherry Hill, NJ

$250.0/min 5.0 4 $4.17/min

20 years experience with iconic brands: McDonalds, Harley-Davidson, Purina and so on. Broad knowledge, a POV, and sense of humor. Interaction design, concept development, search engine optimization, Wordpress consulting, and more.

Julie Blitzer

Milan, Italy

$60.0/min 5.0 1 $1/min

Current: Freelance designer, researcher, startup consultant. General Assembly instructor, Thinkful mentor. Past: AppNexus, JOOR, Advomatic, UbiquityLab and many more. Edu: Domus Academy Master in Interaction Design, Claremont McKenna College BA Government

Lily Anna

San Francisco Bay Area, California

$200.0/min 5.0 1 $3.33/min

Senior product designer (formerly at Zendrive) who has consulted and designed for companies like Twitch, Curtsy, and GSK. I run Product Design Life (meetup.com/productdesigners) where I teach other product designers in Silicon Valley through workshops (productdesignlife.com). Portfolio: designalily.com

Dinesh Brid

Pune Area, India

$60.0/min 5.0 6 $1/min

Founder, NotchUX - User experience design studio. Kick-started career in 1992 marketing runner boards at Cricket matches. Start-up guy. 9 digital start-ups (entertainment, nightlife, alcoholic beverages). Doer. Start-up advisor. Loves adventure travel.

Neil Clavin

Berlin / ✈

$150.0/min 5.0 1 $2.5/min

UX Design, strategy, research & leadership for interactive products for mobile, IOT, web, TV, smart cities. Lead & advise on UX for organisations / start-ups: Vodafone, Logitech, BBC, Virgin, IXDS

Jess Bachman

Toronto

$60.0/min 5.0 0 $1/min

I make infographics and other things. Expert on virality. You've seen my work.

Trevor Goss

San Francisco, California

$100.0/min 5.0 0 $1.67/min

Entrepreneur. CEO/Co-founder of Varsidee.com. Ran marketing at 3 startups, and started the Ideakick conference.

Kurt Varner

San Francisco Bay Area

$60.0/min 4.5 0 $1/min

Design Director at Dropbox. Previously, Director of Design at Shyp. Advisor for early-stage startups and VC firms.

Timothy Whalin

Greater Denver Area

$150.0/min 4.3 16 $2.5/min

As a senior user experience designer, I consult clients in interaction design, strategy, and user research. With over eleven years of experience, I lead teams developing strategic mobile interactions for Fortune 100 companies. From strategy to execution, I deliver the best experience, balancing business goals and user needs. I’ve worked on multiple platforms including iPhone, iPad, Android, as well as responsive web design and web applications. The UX industry is an adventure and I’m thrilled to be apart of it. I live for that “A-ha!” moment when I discover the right solution to a problem. I’ve been honored to work with some brilliant minds in industries such as healthcare, education, television, Not-For-Profit, e-commerce, and government. My approach to usability is described as practical and simplistic. I currently reside in Denver, Colorado, where you'll find me mastering my ping-pong skills, attending Denver's monthly UX Book Club, and geeking out on Twitter. I'd love to talk to you about: - Advice on improving your product - Aligning business goals with user goals - Doing user testing the easy way - How to hire a (user experience) designer

Michael Darius

San Francisco

$300.0/min N/A 31 $5/min

Principal Designer/Advisor to Silicon Valley's hottest portfolio firms. Prompt designer, genius grant writer, luxury manager, dangerous idea specialist, ombuds @ roses/foundation ( Apple, iTunes, GarageBand, WCAG Task Force) I've been developing the WCAG since 1999 and could really use all of your help making the web more accessible for all. https://w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0/ My approach to humanizing the design process begins with translating unmet customer needs into product strategy. Through synthesis I conduct research, designs diagrams, and builds prototypes. Exploring the connection between experience and meaning in an accessible manner allows me to shift thinking and focus on meaningful and connected strategies for products and services so that his design work may connect with people in a more visceral way by gathering audience data to gain insights into how people live their lives. Each company needs to have a clear understanding of the key emotional connectors that tie audience to product. My techniques have been proven to uncover connectors in order to inform a company’s overall business strategy while strengthening the ties between products, brands and audience for many breakthrough product experiences many of us have grown to know and love such as iCloud, iTunes, and the iLife suite of apps. Investigating the boundaries between retail technology, identity construction, object narrative and the connected self, Michael is also Design Partner at Darius/Design. https://darius.life

Tim Grace

Chicago, Illinois

$150.0/min N/A 6 $2.5/min

Senior Product Manager, currently at Trunk Club, previously at Signal, Cars.com, Apartments.com. Working at my second startup. Always learning, sometimes teaching.

Eric Dorf

San Francisco

$150.0/min N/A 29 $2.5/min

Award Winning UX Designer who creates and launches dynamic products, services, and experiences. Lecturer, UCSC Mobile & Wearable UX.

Allan Caeg

Asia. Location-independent

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Building WinMeter.io #GoalExecution through OKRs. Also: UX Designer, Product Manager, and Lean Startup Practitioner

Aditya Kedia

hong kong

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Full stack, end-to-end customer experience strategist and UX designer, with 12+ experience designing for multiple touchpoints, and cross-platform, B2B / B2C digital products and services operating in multiple markets. Have created product from scratch 0 to 1, as well optimized and transformed existing products leading to improvement in key business metrics such as customer acquisition, engagement, retention, CSAT and NPS. Have deep understanding and capability to operate at the trisection of business, design and technology to deliver win-win solutions leading to sustainable growth, impact and user satisfaction.

Rina Kang

Seattle, WA

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Passionate about helping others transition their careers to UX and succeed in interviews. I have 5 years of experience working at large tech companies and have helped others get jobs at places likes Google, Meta, Amazon and more. Incoming Sr Product Designer @ Meta; ex-UX & Visual Designer @ Amazon; ex-Architectural Designer @ OMA, SOM, Gensler. Graduate @ Cornell University

Ali El

San Francisco, Bay Area

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Entrepreneur. Founder & CEO of Softwurx – Product Designer / Engineer (5 tech startups). CTO of Acdaris - International Trade Made Easy. Inventor, Technologist, Passionate about giving back.

Larry Cornett

Bay Area, CA

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

I'm a Career and Business advisor who helps people redefine their careers to maximize their earning potential and fulfillment. Former founder and CEO of Voicekick, Vice President of Consumer Products for Yahoo Search, Director at eBay, designer at Apple Computer and IBM. Ph.D. in Human Factors Psychology.

Andrew Korf

San Francisco, CA

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Andrew leads UX strategy and design for ZS Associates on the west coast. ZS is a global leader in business technology, business operations consulting operating primarily in life sciences and technology. Andrew has a multidisciplinary background in business, technology, research, design and design thinking who can offer insights and strategic directions for industries and companies facing change and disruption. Andrew has over two decades of design and design thinking experience including: research, strategy, information architecture, design, service design, prototyping, user research, usability testing. He has extensive experience in the medical field working with leaders in the health management and wellness fields, as well as prior work with a number of biomedical and medical device manufacturers and startups. Some of his additional interests are: sailing, photography, snowboarding, art, architecture, urbanism, and the environment.

Urooj Qureshi

Canada

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Urooj Qureshi is the creator of Impact Centered Design, a framework that integrates the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a foundation for impact-driven solutions design. He is a design leader and a serial entrepreneur with experience serving government, social enterprise, tech start-ups, and the corporate sector globally. Over the past two decades, Urooj's efforts have led to disruption and innovations in the field of design and technology. Urooj serves as an advisor and consultant to forward-thinking enterprises, start-ups, and leaders focused on innovation and progress in their fields.

Matthew Milan

Toronto

$250.0/min N/A 37 $4.17/min

Design leader at Normative, a software innovation firm. Expertise in Risk Management, Software Innovation, Business Strategy, New Product Development and building great innovation teams.

ash bhoopathy

San Francisco, CA

$250.0/min N/A 6 $4.17/min

multiple time entrepreneur, food marketplace, edtech, enterprise, mobile. prefer to advise on design or UX. mentoring several startups in SF / Seattle.

Ed Brenegar

Asheville, North Carolina / Ventura, California

$100.0/min N/A 9 $1.67/min

I'm a leadership initiator. I believe that people have the power to make a difference far beyond what their own imagination tells them. Often, all they need is for someone to believe in them. I'm that person. My best days are when a person with whom I'm working makes a decision, acts on it, and begins to see that they are making a difference that matters. This is how I spend my days, and I'm committed to doing this with individuals and organizations. I love helping the leaders of organizations develop their people into leadership initiators who create impact. This matters because if we can strengthen the organization, then we can make a difference for their clients / customers, their families, their community and the world at large. My working arrangement is simple. We talk, decide what you want to do, decide what you want to invest, then, I design a program to make it happen. Nothing complicated. Just a relationship with someone who can help you adapt the changing world of organizations. I welcome that opportunity. You can find me at my blog, Leading Questions - http://edbrenegar.typepad.com.

Bryan McAnulty

Austin, TX

$400.0/min N/A 0 $6.67/min

Founder of Heights Platform & Founder/Product Director of Velora. Helping course creators build successful online course businesses. Launched multiple SaaS and ecommerce businesses. Designer, developer, entrepreneur and world traveler. Traveled to over 30 countries and 100+ cities.

Spiros Kapetanakis

Athens, Greece

$100.0/min N/A 1 $1.67/min

Co-Founder of coLab workspace the first coworking place in greece @ colabathens, Co-Founder of coLab Igniter acceleration program @ colabigniter, Founder of Feelzer mobile app @ feelzer

Alexander Ryan

San Francisco Bay Area

$175.0/min N/A 5 $2.92/min

Brand Strategy and design thinking with a dash business model design, and service design. Lover of frameworks. Let's talk about how to get our head around complicated challenges.

Umer Adnan

Islamabad, Pakistan

$60.0/min N/A 29 $1/min

Co-founder & CEO @ E4 Technologies -- NUST, ASU , Fulbright Alum -- Expertise in Design, Electronics, Firmware, Robotics, Programming, Product Development. We develop products in Mechatronics, IoT domains.

Karl Dotter

San Francisco, California

$200.0/min N/A 0 $3.33/min

Karl Dotter is a Designer at Goodreads & Amazon, Former Interaction Design Lecturer at California College of the Arts and Founder of PairDesignCo (PairDesign.Co is a design education focused product design studio working on pair design workshops and workplace productivity tools)

Matthew Smith

Greenville, South Carolina

$300.0/min N/A 9 $5/min

I'm a hack; a self-taught designer, entrepreneur, advisor, and inventor. I've been helping people answer tough questions on design, freelance, business, and adventure for hundreds of years (more or less). I ran my own design firm for 8 years, been the Creative Director at Zaarly in San Francisco, the Chief Creative Officer at Relay Foods, founded and run one of the top CoWorking spots in the country in Greenville, SC, and have even ventured into invention. I would love to help you understand how to grow your design shop and reach your goals with your clients. I look forward to helping your company understand your strengths and weaknesses in design, experience, business, and brand.

Michael Muli

Nairobi, KEN

$100.0/min N/A 1 $1.67/min

Michael is an esteemed UX Designer having helped his clients develop visually compelling digital products. Michael currently works as the coFounder of Intle IT Services Ltd, Taasisi, MMCD and Mobilemeant. He serves as a User Experience Consultant for iHub Consulting, Booking.com, Rihla Prime, Rural Electrification Authority of Kenya, Gateway Clean Energy Africa among other organizations. He frequently speaks in enlightened gatherings on the importance of Design Thinking for Business Innovation as well the importance of User Centered Design. His life long pupilage is at Dray Associates ,under the great mother of Usability Dr. Susan Dray, and with the great Dr. Shikoh Gitau.

Per Axbom

Stockholm County, Sweden

$200.0/min N/A 11 $3.33/min

Experience Designer. Strategist. Coach. Speaker. Visual Explainer. Co-host of @uxpodcast. * Run my own business in within UX and Interaction Design. * 18 years of experience with web development. * Have lived in four countries across three continents. * I ride a motorcycle. * More than 40 clients over the past 15 years. * Love sketchnotes. * Often hired as a speaker within web trends and UX.

Ryan Gonzales

Greater Los Angeles Area

$400.0/min N/A 5 $6.67/min

Ryan Gonzales is the Director of Design for Shine Bathroom and the Founder of RG/E. He is the creator of the 6XP Framework for Delivering Great Product Experiences. Ryan curates design systems, manages user-centered design initiatives, and leads the teams and processes that drive them. Gonzales crafts compelling digital products, websites, and experiences for innovative brands. His clients include FedEx and Platinum Performance, where he created and implemented their design and UX process. Ryan Gonzales has completed various projects for Disney, Guitar Center, Sony, Skechers, and many others. His writing is featured in multiple publications, and he's a top writer for Design and Startups on Medium.

blake folgado

London

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Co-Founder of Venteo, still in our first year going through all the ups and downs. We are on the ups now : ]

Brian Busche

Chicago, IL

$150.0/min N/A 16 $2.5/min

Software developer for 20 years. Broad tactical experience. Spent 2 years at 1871 Startup Incubator in Chicago, working on: BrewedinChicago.com Camaro.com Rendition.net