User-centered Design – Advice from Experts

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User-centered Design

Ben Sykes

Austin, Texas

$300.0/min 5.0 97 $5/min

Alt. Schedule Here: https://calendly.com/bensykes --- 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

$300.0/min 5.0 13 $5/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.

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

Raleigh, NC

$250.0/min 5.0 2 $4.17/min

I am currently building an innovation capability within The Estee Lauder Companies where I am connecting their business decision-makers to their customers' needs to drive successful innovation. I have also started a service+interior design consultancy called Fosforo Studio. In our first year, we have serviced over 15 clients. In the past, I worked with MetLife to build an innovation practice, Alliant Credit Union to build their innovation and service design centers of excellence. Prior to that, I was with Fjord as a Service Designer in Chicago where I 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.

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.

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

Michael Amaru

Boston

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

‍ UX & CX Leadership | Digital Strategy | Customer Experience Optimization Senior UX & CX Leader with expertise in user experience, digital strategy, branding, and innovation. Former Senior Manager of UX at a leading enterprise, driving customer-centric design and business growth. Co-founder & CXO of a health tech startup, leading product development and experience strategy. Experience in healthcare, fintech, enterprise services, and AI-driven personalization. Passionate about scaling design teams, optimizing customer journeys, and improving product experiences.  Book a call for actionable insights on UX strategy, CX transformation, and product design improvements.

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.

Alaa Alkhafaji

Baghdad, Iraq

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

I hold a PhD in computer science (Mobile development and Mobile HCI). I am specialist in mobile development and interface design. additionally, I have great experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research, user and usability studies, user experience, user-centred design and data analysis

HISHA PATEL

New York

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

Human-Centered Designer. UX/UI Innovator. Creative Storyteller. Master’s in HCD @ Pace University | Designed apps boosting sales by 15–50% | Figma Wizard | User Research Enthusiast | Fluent in turning problems into pixel-perfect solutions. Passionate about: Designing intuitive digital experiences, solving user pain points, and making interfaces as engaging as their stories.

Shreyas Deshmukh

London, United Kingdom

$500.0/min N/A 0 $8.33/min

Former Product Manager at Google and Engineer at Microsoft, with experience co-founding startups and advising early-stage founders. I’ve supported teams across product strategy, growth, and go-to-market, helping startups build scalable products and organizations. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deshmukhshreyas/

Sagar Yende

Pune India

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

I help businesses create intuitive, user-centric designs that align user needs with business goals. With 8+ years of experience in UX and Product Design, I specialize in solving complex design challenges, improving usability, and delivering seamless solutions for enterprise and SaaS products.

Miranda Hurtado Suazo

Dallas

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

Worked for Toyota (project), Dialexa (project), State Farm, and currently at JP Morgan Chase

Nupur Tevatiya

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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

Founder of Stoira & Stoira Studios / Design & Product Mentor at Topmate / Ex-Chingari Designer

Brett Polonsky

Stanwood, WA, USA

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

I’m a Fractional UX Exec and product design leader who’s spent the last 15+ years building design teams, scaling systems, and shipping products that make a real impact. I’ve led work across healthcare, finance, and real estate tech, but what drives me most is helping people grow—whether that’s a designer landing their first role, a senior IC stepping into leadership, or a founder learning how to weave design into their product DNA. As a mentor, I bring both an executive perspective and a coach’s mindset. I’ll give you direct, actionable feedback, but also help you zoom out and see the bigger picture of where your career (or team) is headed. If you’re ready to level up your craft, your leadership, or your confidence, I’ll help you get there with clarity and momentum. Design for Humans Published author, experienced speaker and presenter.

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.

RJ Barnes

Dallas, Texas

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

Product Designer @clearpathgps. Previously @gpsinsight and @gdms. Focused on web and mobile applications in both the government and telematics space. New to the field? I can offer advice on how to get started. I also enjoy music, NFTs, animals, and gardening.

Jenn Mensink

North Augusta, SC

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

Got a problem? Tell me all about it. This design thinker has 9 years of experience growing SMB's.

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.

Randy Ellis

Chicago, IL

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

Entrepreneur. Fundraising Coach. Start-up Ideas. UX/UI Expert. Public Speaker. Contributing Author. Adjunct Professor of UX at four universities.

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.

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.

francois lieutier

Montreal

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

Business Analyst and Product Management expert. Love to come up with the right methodology and approach to find growth opportunities for businesses. Sales funnel optimizations, finding product improvements with the most upside or fine tuning a business strategy and/or pricing.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Benjamin Earl Evans

london, england

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

Award-winning User Experience Designer, entrepreneur and author. I help you create experiences that resonate with your customers, increase conversions & more. I'm also a Pitch Deck & Public Speaking Expert who has helped entrepreneurs raise over $4MM for their startups.

Michael Smart

Berlin, Germany

$175.0/min N/A 0 $2.92/min

I'm a user experience & interface designer from Australia, and now an adopted Berliner. Over the last 12 years, I've helped some of the biggest Brands and some of the fastest growing Startups in the World, build intuitive and engaging user experiences for their products and services. In 2011, I co-founded the leading UX Design Agency in Berlin AJ&Smart with fellow "ausländer" and UX Designer, Jonathan Courtney. I supply the following services: - User interface design for web & mobile services and products - Usability testing and solutions - Interactive prototyping - Native application usability and design for iOS/Android/Windows - Branding and corporate design (web/print) - Design consultancy and product strategy

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.

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 !

Silvia Di Gianfrancesco

Zurich, Switzerland

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

User Experience Designer at heart leading a team of Designers, PMs and Testers in delivering, in full collaboration with development, the best experiences to our users. Trained Industrial Designer I have been a Visual Designer for several years before moving into the User Experience world. I enjoy solving challenging problems and story telling as a mean to solutions. UX advisor for startups in my free time, I am also busy in learning German and coding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shaimoom Newaz

Studio City

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

Business Consultant | Entrepeneur | Marketing Strategist | UX/UI Designer | WordPress Veteran

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.

Erin Liman

San Francisco Bay Area

$600.0/min N/A 16 $10/min

Executive & Team Coach @ Innovation is Social, LLC. Coach I excel at partnering with leaders navigating "I don't know how to do this" challenges, and transforming "yeah, but" cultures into scrappy, entrepreneurial ones. I have 25+ years of experience in tech and 15 other industries, as Product and user experience strategist, design researcher, vision guide / corporate storyteller, and innovation coach. Worked with execs at SAP, Intuit, Infosys, Autodesk and dozens of startups. Are you next?

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.

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

Dave Jimenez

Texas - Hook 'Em!

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

Recovering Tech/Software Consulting veteran with a passion for using my knowledge and experience to help teams grow their businesses.