User-centered Design – Advice from Experts

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User-centered Design

Ben Sykes

San Francisco, CA

$250.0/min 5.0 83 $4.17/min

Mentor, product designer & dev-UX hybrid focusing on interaction & behavior design. Worked at @Google, @Cisco, @Microsoft, @American Idol, @Us Marine Corps

Kai Gradert

San Francisco / Bay Area

$300.0/min 4.9 16 $5/min

Designer at AngelList. Previously designer at Google. Successfully designed and co-designed products for Google, Intel, Adobe, Frog Design, Apple, Levis, Lego Group, MetaTools.

Andy VanderLinde

Washington, DC

$120.0/min 5.0 3 $2/min

UX Designer & PM advocating for inclusivity. Dog lover, doer & DIY'er, proud swiss army knife

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

$100.0/min 5.0 10 $1.67/min

UX expert with 14 years doing research, strategy, and design. Ex-Adaptive Path, Ex-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

Iztok Smolic

Slovenia

$60.0/min 5.0 8 $1/min

Working with Drupal for 6 years. Involved in more than 50 web development project, covering design, development and business aspects of online products.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Joe Natoli

Baltimore, Maryland Area

$150.0/min N/A 9 $2.5/min

I help organizations -- from startups to Fortune 100 – improve User Experience and Customer Experience in order to (1) make more money or (1) save more money. I've been extremely fortunate to do that for the past 25 years. How? By identifying the gaps between what customers expect and what they actually get, and then showing the parties responsible for products and services how to fill those gaps. And I do this in a way that ensures they STAY filled after my engagement ends. I don't fish for you; I teach you how. I'm not interested in theory or reimagining existing processes -- I'm interested in results. Either we move the needle or we should be spending time and money on something else. The change usually occurs in how your teams THINK about what they do before they do it -- the tactical stuff remains the same.

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.

Jonathan Kalinowski

Chicago, IL

$150.0/min N/A 0 $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.

Chris Shepherd

London, UK

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

Founder @ Fixington. Previously Product @ BBC, Tesco & huddle. CEO @ Keepmebooked. Expertise in startups, subscription models and product management.

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.

Mark Nickson

Sydney, Australia

$200.0/min N/A 38 $3.33/min

I'm an accomplished strategist, leader, experience designer and entrepreneur, with over 18 years experience crafting innovative and immersive product design solutions. Through my new agency - www.dijgt.al (DIJGTAL) - I've been helping to validate and accelerate early stage startups all the way to enterprise ventures. DIJGTAL are a full end-to-end experience design agency helping to foster game changing ideas and commercialise ready for market. ★ DIJGT.AL | DID I JUST GO THERE ★ ... Prior to DIJGTAL, I also founded two other customer centric and innovation-led businesses in Canada; one being a boutique UX agency, the other, a funded mobile startup focused on consumer engagement and insight. I've been fortunate enough to help design digital solutions and immersive experiences for Microsoft, McDonalds, Disney, Paypal, Westpac, HSBC, CBA, Citibank, PwC, Qantas, Ronald McDonald House Charities, BC Children's Hospital, the Canadian Government, and the Canadian Military amongst others. --------------- Specialties: ♦ Innovation Strategy ♦ Startup Mentoring ♦ Design Thinking ♦ Customer Led Innovation ♦ Strategic Design ♦ Lean UX ♦ Creative Direction ♦ Service Design ♦ Behavioural Research ♦ Co-Creation Workshops ♦ Team Leadership ♦ Client Management

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

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.

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.

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.

Adam Holtrop

Greater New York City Area

$200.0/min N/A 1 $3.33/min

Entrepreneur developing business across digital platforms. I have over 7 years experience planning and designing mobile technology. Spent a few years building social media services for PepsiCo and other tier 1 brands. I'm very focused on user experience, gap analysis and hold a deep understanding of current technology. Spent 10 years in advertising (Ogilvy, Saatchi) before moving out into tech start ups. I can help you decipher the digital world and create meaningful connections between customers and brands. On top of this I'm a Creative Director, meaning i direct the aesthetic outcome of everything i do.

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.

Vacherat Patricia

Paris

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

Je suis une experte en expérience utilisateur sur le digital située en région parisienne. Je vous propose de vous accompagner dans le cadrage fonctionnel et/ou la conception ergonomique de vos dispositifs et applications web et mobile. Mon profil Linkedin est à jour si vous souhaitez plus d'informations sur mon parcours et mes compétences. À bientôt !

Holly DeWolf

Stuttgart, Germany

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

I help businesses understand their customers better. As a user experience strategist and researcher I guide you through the process of discovering who your customers are, how they view you and your competitors and how to optimize your product for those customers.

Four Hewes

Greater Boston Area

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

Startup Mentor. Design Process Coach. Consulting UX Designer & Product Strategist for products, services and experiences. I work with founders, do-ers, teams at startups, agencies and large companies and institutions. We create things that work so well, people want give you more business. Design Mentor to startups. Working with ten in January, 2016 I also produce UX events and races. I run ultramarathons.

Dave Burke

Washington, DC

$175.0/min N/A 6 $2.92/min

Highly experienced digital and UX strategist. Frequent teacher and speaker. Led web teams at Washington Post, CEB, and APCO Worldwide.

Jack Oliver

London

$500.0/min N/A 10 $8.33/min

Design Lead at Forward Partners, Startup Investment, Data driven design, product development and the 'fixer' of startups. Formerly @ Notonthehighstreet, Farfetch, Jaguar Land Rover, Mercedes and Ford

Robin Liendeborg

Linkoping, Sweden

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

Swedish entreprenur and founder of Comic Health. Has a great interest in interaction design, UX, user research, eHealth and interface design.