User-centered Design – Advice from Experts

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User-centered Design

Ben Sykes

New York, NY

$300.0/min 5.0 88 $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.

Danny Setiawan

New York, NY

$250.0/min 5.0 12 $4.17/min

15+ years of experience in UX and product development. I have worked with Enterprise (The Economist, Yahoo! and Microsoft) and startups (GeoCV, Navigine and Contently).

Nir Eyal

San Francisco Bay Area

$1000.0/min 5.0 15 $16.67/min

Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. Nir founded two tech companies since 2003 and is a past Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Nir is also an advisor to several Bay Area start-ups and incubators. Nir’s last company received venture funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and was acquired in 2011. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, Nir is a contributing writer for Forbes, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. Nir attended The Stanford Graduate School of Business and Emory University.

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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.

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

Jonathan Kalinowski

Chicago, IL

$150.0/min 5.0 1 $2.5/min

I have worked with Fjord as a Service Designer in Chicago since 2014, where I have helped our clients innovate and rethink the way they serve their customers. I also cofounded Service Experience Chicago, a non-profit dedicated to increasing access to service design theory and practice. I hold an MFA in Service Design from Savannah College of Art and Design and have published in Touchpoint, a service design quarterly journal.

Nadine Schaeffer

California Central Coast

$175.0/min 5.0 13 $2.92/min

I have been designing apps, websites and software for over 17 years. My clients have included Apple, Yahoo, Oracle, Intuit and a host of smaller companies and startups. I offer a full range of design services including research, information architecture, interaction design and mobile design.

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

Ezra Goldman

Oakland, CA

$150.0/min 5.0 1 $2.5/min

Entrepreneur (Upshiftcars.com) and business innovator with a focus on shared transportation, on demand, and share economy businesses.

Everett McKay

St Albans, VT, USA

$450.0/min N/A 0 $7.5/min

Principal of UX Design Edge, UX design consultant and trainer with global clientele. With 20+ years experience, have significant breadth and depth on a wide range of UX topics and work very quickly. We can get a lot done in 30 minutes or less! My specialties are remote design reviews, and helping you find practical, intuitive, simple, highly usable solutions extremely quickly, for web, mobile, and desktop apps. Author of “UI is Communication”, a ground-breaking approach to intuitive UI. Personally wrote the Windows UX Guidelines while at Microsoft. Have a technical background (BS/MS in CS from MIT), so work especially well with technical teams and have a low tolerance for design BS. Check uxdesignedge.com/about for details.

Lee Hsieh

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Multi-device UX combining aesthetic sensibility with technical know-how to deliver feasible and actionable solutions. Veteran of 6 startups including Chemdex/Ventro - 1st B2B e-market for life sciences. Striving to make technology more accessible and easy to use.

Mauro Moro

singapore

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

Industry Expert in Concept Design for Architecture, Master Plans and Interior Design, Mauro is the Author of DESIGN PROCESS - RESEARCH, REFINE, REALISE. As a result of his passion for inspiring and guiding young professionals and students, this guide book translates Mauro's work process built over the years to optimise his teams' work and achieve the best results looking forward to clients' satisfaction. Mauro has been a Design Leader at top Architecture offices for 20 years. Strategist, Guest Lecturer, Mentor, his main qualities are leadership and adaptability to any project scale. His young colleagues have always looked up to him for guidance and especially appreciate his input at Design Review stages, where he guides them to achieve the best results. At Clarity, he will revise your project, at Concept or Development stages, teaching you how to work effectively by using a DESIGN PROCESS and guide you on your journey to achieve the best results.

Paul Boag

Dorset, United Kingdom

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

User experience consultant, speaker & author of Digital Adaptation. Helps companies meet the needs of digital consumers. For more see boagworks.com

Peter W. Szabo

London, UK

$250.0/min N/A 0 $4.17/min

★ 9 Years of Success in UX for big brands (Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft, PokerStars, Emirates) and many startups. ★ Background in front-end development and SEO. ★ Author of the critically acclaimed book: User Experience Mapping (Packt, 2017 - available on Amazon) ★ Creator of the Kaizen-UX Management Methodology, now implemented at many agencies and corporate UX teams (including a team at Microsoft) ★ International conference speaker, UX writer, blogger (http://kaizen-ux.com/) and User-centricity evangelist (over 9k followers on Twitter – @wszp). ★ Passionate trainer and cross-trainer ★ UX is my hobby

Thanos Papavasileiou

London

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

I am a UX & UI Designer with 10 years of experience, a Story Teller and a Maker of things online. I love NYC, English Breakfast and riding my HD. I am a part-time Londoner, part-time Greek who loves to simplify complex problems and translate them to great User interfaces. While I enjoy building beautiful, spotless interfaces, I consider conversion & revenue more important. I've designed for many Startups and companies like Manchester City, Christie's, Upstream Systems, incrediblue, HitTail and Hearst Publications. By experience, my expertise is in SaaS Products, Marketplaces and e-auction systems. As a new dad I'm also trying to solve the most complex problem in my life so far, which is how to be a good father while you keep a career in a sector that is evolving with the speed of light.

Jessamyn West

vermont

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

Librarian & writer working with the digitally divided in Vermont. Former CEO/Community Manager MetaFilter.com. Internet Archive's Open Library manager. I can teach anyone to use a computer. I know why people can't use your website. I know why your comments section sucks.

Mehdi Doghri

London, UK

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

Senior Product Manager @ Barclays. also: geek, entrepreneur, former CTO in a startup, iOS developer and architect. I can help you with your product strategy and mobile apps challenges.

Gurvinder Sandhu

United Kingdom

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

Ran a successful user experience design and research agency servicing clients such as PayPal, Stena Line and Sony PlayStation. Managed and grew a User experience design and research function at John Lewis & Partners. Managed the global product design function at Travelex creating products such as international money transfer via Samsung Pay. Currently heading up the User experience design and research function at GoCompare.

Louis-Xavier Lavallee

Montréal

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

I'm always finding ways to bring the ultimate experience to the skies at Bombardier, creating the most luxurious interfaces for our private jet fleet. I will give you advice on how to bring your product to a luxury status. www.louisxavier.com

Alberto Minelli

london

$250.0/min N/A 0 $4.17/min

Senior UX, Service Design expert. Worked on mobile apps and tons of websites. I can help anyone in shaping a meaningful experience. I worked with consultancies (Deloitte), product companies (AI and fintech) and agencies (Digitas and Tribal).

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.

Massimiliano Pesce

Venice, IT

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

Holding a bachelor degree in Information Engineering and a master degree in Telecommunications Engineering, I started my career path at Univerisity of Padova as a research fellow working on topics in Machine Learning and data science, Internet of Things and cognitive cellular networks with publications on the international conferences. After, I co-funded Urbana Smart Solutions, a digital innovative company developing products in the IoT space. I also led R&D and engineering departments working on distributed systems, cloud-based infrastructures, blockchain networks and deep learning. I have been leading innovative international projects for the loyalty industry, developing digital marketing serverless platforms and real-time transactional systems. I have got proven experience in working on global projects holding C-level roles, overseeing developments and roll outs in Europe, APAC,EMEA and US. I am a professional certified Scrum Master.

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.

Lucia Ziyuan

Lisbon

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

I design for complex financial apps especially those utilizing blockchain technology. My mission is to make financial apps easier and more delightful to use.

Tal Florentin

Israel

$450.0/min N/A 0 $7.5/min

Author, speaker, founder and editor of UX Hero Comics, award winning UX designer, director and lead lecturer at UXV - UX Certification Program, CEO and lead UX designer at UXVision with experience of more than 120 UX projects

Bojan Janjanin

Zabok, Croatia

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

Bojan is a senior web designer and developer with 12 years of professional experience, specializing in usable web solutions. He has experience with a wide range of projects, tools, and techniques. He is proficient in UX/UI design and front-end development.

Chris Shepherd

London, UK

$60.0/min N/A 6 $1/min

Marketplace, SaaS & Product Strategy Expert. Founder @ Fixington. Previously Product @ BBC, Tesco & huddle. Expertise in startups, revenue models and product management.

Scott Magee

Austin, TX

$120.0/min N/A 5 $2/min

I build businesses using value-driven innovation to create incremental lifts in recurring revenue and company valuation. I can help plan your MVP, decide what to test and how to make sense of the results - or I can create sustainable long term initiatives (that actually get built) for established companies.

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.

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.

Natasha Irizarry

NYC

$100.0/min N/A 3 $1.67/min

Currently working at OkCupid as a Product Designer. Contact me for questions on UX, design, or anything related to the two. Or dating...I often tell people I am "resident matchmaker". I have lots of experience in consumer facing web sites and mobile design.

Jenny Sun

Atlanta, GA

$120.0/min N/A 9 $2/min

User Experience Consultant. Co-Founder of Field (User Research, Product Strategy, Experience Design Firm). Instructor at Creative Circus. UX STRAT Advisory Board Member.

Iain Camacho

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

10+ years of experience in product design and strategy. Worked as a UX Designer, UX Strategist, manager, lead designer, and UX Researcher

Erin Liman

San Francisco Bay Area

$200.0/min N/A 16 $3.33/min

Founder & Innovation Accelerator @ Innovation is Social, LLC. Transform "yeah, but" cultures into scrappy, entrepreneurial ones. Product and user experience strategist, design researcher, vision communicator / corporate storyteller, innovation coach. Worked with execs at GE, Lenovo, SK Telecom, SAP, Intuit, PeopleSoft, Lotus/IBM and dozens of startups. Are you next?

Lyn Bain

Santa Fe, NM

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Usability mentor with expertise in selecting the right methodology for the situation, planning and conducting interviews, analyzing the results, and identifying actionable changes to improve the users' experience. I've worked with companies of all sizes to introduce or improve usability practices and build internal expertise.

Jonathan Kanaan

New York City

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

Worked with American Express, The UN, AT&T, Lockheed Martin, a computer forensics and cyber security firm, and as a CTO at several startups.

Abe Crystal

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

$150.0/min N/A 2 $2.5/min

Co-founder, Ruzuku. Ph.D., human-computer interaction & social learning. I've conducted hundreds of user research sessions: interviews, contextual observation, usability tests, etc. Can I help you understand your customers better?

Jeremy Belcher

Tokyo, Japan

$100.0/min N/A 3 $1.67/min

UX Designer for some of the biggest brands in the world. Digital Nomad. Co-creator of the newly-launched W9er app.

Marc Orro

Sydney, NSW

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

Head of Design @ CodeNgo • Founder @ VoThink • Worked at @ Nurun • Entrepreneur • Dreamer • Surfer • Minimalist

Samir George

Cairo, Egypt

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

Egyptian UX Expert especially in middle eastern customers behavior. Coinimp.com, Webchain.network CBA.pl

Stan Blessedlive

Uzbekistan, Tashkent

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

WHAT IS MY JOB? I'm creating or rethinking products - apps or websites. Even if app or website isn't your final product - so then I'm leading users right to your product through your website or app. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW I'M DOING IT? User Experience Design includes a bunch of skills and instruments such as research, user stories, wireframes etc. It's like architect. Then User Interface Design comes to make it look awesome; to put correct emphasis in a right place.

Rodrigo Del Castillo

Austin TX, USA

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

Rodrigo is a full-stack designer actively working on and directing digital projects across user interface and visual design, information architecture, front-end web development, user experience, and human factors. Since 2005, he has helped Professional Athletes, Grammy-winning Recording Artists, Award-winning ad agencies, Fortune 100’s, Tech Startups and Government Contractors deliver digital products and experiences across the digital landscape. He works on both commercial and experimental projects. Specialties: Online Product, Mobile Applications, Interactive Media and Smart Objects.

Mario Garcia

Tampa, FL

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

Former Chief Experience Officer for fintech startup NYMBUS. Helping startups look like billion dollar companies and established companies grow value though designing an incredible user journey.

Jason Cyr

British Columbia, Canada

$150.0/min N/A 7 $2.5/min

Jason is an entrepreneur, innovator, connector, and team-builder with more than 15 years of experience in user centred design, technology, innovation, business and creativity. Currently a Managing Partner and Principal Product Designer at Ethical UX a digital design agency that works with progressive clients to design and build meaningful digital experiences with a focus on web marketing, digital products, software, mobile apps and web applications. Most recently Jason was the owner of Pareto User Experience Group, a successful boutique UX agency with such notable clients as: Ronald McDonald House Charities, Disney Interactive, BC Children's Hospital Foundation, WorkSafeBC, and McDonalds. Jason was also a founder and CEO at Tiipz, a mobile engagement and consumer insights platform, where he was chosen as one of 20 Canadian start-up CEOs to attend the C100 event - 48 Hrs in the valley (San Francisco), and also one of 15 Canadian start-up CEOs chosen to attend the annual Metabridge event in Kelowna.

Kelley Poturalski

Denver, CO

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

User experience strategist, researcher and designer specializing in product and service design who loves working with smart, funny friends.

Petr Kosnar

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

$200.0/min N/A 7 $3.33/min

Design engineer at the User System Interaction program of the Eindhoven University of Technology, Freelancing in design & reseach over 6 years. Passionate about applying psychology in design & technology context.

Kathleen Zasada

Brooklyn, NY

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

Self-taught product manager with experience in ecommerce, marketplaces, education and manufacturing. Currently a Senior PM at Buzzfeed and Product Management Instructor at General Assembly; previously a PM at Etsy, Capital One, Shapeways & PowerMyLearning. Undergrad in Finance from Northeastern.