UX People

173 items

• Ahmed Sabry

  Head of Commercial & Insights, BrandVision (Egypt)

  Leads user research and market insight work across MENA from BrandVision's Cairo practice.

  Africa & Middle East
• Ali E. Berkman

  UX Director, Turkey

  UX director and mentor across Turkish product and design teams; active in the regional design community.

  Africa & Middle East
• Brooke

  COO & Co-founder, Digital of Things (UAE)

  Runs operations for Digital of Things, one of the leading UX practices in the Middle East.

  Africa & Middle East
• Helga Stegmann

  CEO, Mantaray Africa (South Africa)

  Leads one of Africa's foremost UX research consultancies, serving clients across the continent and abroad.

  Africa & Middle East
• Nubi Kay'

  Product designer and community builder (Nigeria)

  One of the loudest voices growing the West African product design community.

  Africa & Middle East
• Ridwan Olalere

  Product leader, ex-Uber and Flutterwave (Nigeria)

  Building product and design practice for African fintech at scale.

  Africa & Middle East
• Rima Sabina Aouf

  Design writer and editor, MENA design coverage

  Documents design work and practice across the Middle East and North Africa.

  Africa & Middle East
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  Sarah Fathallah

  Design researcher and social designer (Morocco/US)

  Participatory and equity-centred research across public and social sectors.

  Africa & Middle East
• Sudipt Shah

  CEO & Co-founder, Digital of Things (UAE)

  Co-founded a Dubai-based UX consultancy delivering research and design for the Gulf region.

  Africa & Middle East
• UX Beirut community

  Regional UX community, Lebanon

  Meetups, mentoring and events for UX practitioners across the Levant.

  Africa & Middle East
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  Adham Dannaway

  Product designer (Australia)

  UI craft, design-to-code workflows and portfolio work worth studying.

  Asia-Pacific
• Ash Oliver

  Design leader, Australia/New Zealand

  Design operations and team practice across ANZ product organisations.

  Asia-Pacific
• Birdie Salva

  Principal Partner, Curiosity (Philippines)

  Co-leads a Manila-based UX research consultancy serving global clients across South-East Asia.

  Asia-Pacific
• Chui Chui Tan

  Founder of Beyo Global; cross-cultural research specialist

  Advises global teams on international user research and cross-cultural design.

  Asia-Pacific
• Daniel Szuc

  Co-founder, Apogee (Hong Kong)

  Two decades of UX practice across Asia; writes on making meaningful work.

  Asia-Pacific
• Kristine Layaoen

  Principal Partner, Curiosity (Philippines)

  Leads research and design programmes for global brands from the Philippines.

  Asia-Pacific
• Maffee (Peng Hui) Wan

  Managing Director, XplusX (China)

  Leads a Shanghai-based UX consultancy; pioneer of user research and design practice in China.

  Asia-Pacific
• Masaaki Kurosu

  HCI researcher, Japan

  Research on aesthetic usability and user experience measurement.

  Asia-Pacific
• Cédrick Hached

  Associate VP, Ad Hoc Research (Canada)

  Leads user research and insight work at one of Canada's established research consultancies.

  Canada
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  Femke van Schoonhoven

  Product designer and podcaster (Canada)

  Design Life podcast; practical career and craft advice for product designers.

  Canada
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  Andy Budd

  Design leadership coach, founder of Clearleft (UK)

  Built one of Europe's landmark UX consultancies; now coaches design leaders.

  Europe
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  Ben Sauer

  Design consultant and workshop facilitator

  Author of Death by Screens; helps teams make better product and AI design decisions.

  Europe
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  Cennydd Bowles

  Author of Future Ethics (UK)

  The practical reference for ethics and responsible design decisions.

  Europe
• Daniel Torres

  Founder, Torresburriel Estudio (Spain)

  Service design and UX consultancy founder; long-running Spanish-language design community voice.

  Europe
• Florian Egger

  Founder & Managing Director, Telono (Switzerland)

  Pioneered UX certification of products and services; usability research for Swiss and European organisations.

  Europe
• Giles Colborne

  Co-founder of cxpartners, author of Simple and Usable

  UK consultancy leader; writes on simplicity in interaction design.

  Europe
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  Heydon Pickering

  Author of Inclusive Components

  Writes and builds accessible, resilient interface component patterns.

  Europe
• Jenny Theolin

  Design educator and facilitator (Sweden/UK)

  Workshop facilitation and creative process teaching across Europe.

  Europe
• José Campos

  Founder & Co-CEO, Tangível (Portugal)

  Founded Portugal's largest UX consultancy; champion of human-centred design practice in Iberia.

  Europe
• Kate Tarling

  Author of The Service Organization

  Advises organisations on structuring teams and operations around user-facing services.

  Europe
• Lauren Currie

  Founder of Upfront; designer and social entrepreneur

  Service design background; now works on visibility and confidence for underrepresented people.

  Europe
• Leisa Reichelt

  Research leader, ex-GOV.UK and Atlassian

  Made research a democratic, org-wide habit rather than a specialist gate.

  Europe
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  Léonie Watson

  Director of TetraLogical; web standards and accessibility expert

  Screen reader user, W3C contributor and a leading voice on accessible web platform design.

  Europe
• Lou Downe

  Author of Good Services, ex-Director of Design, UK Government

  Defined what a good service looks like — required reading for service designers.

  Europe
• Nathalie Nahai

  Behavioural scientist, author of Webs of Influence

  Applies psychology and ethics to persuasive digital design.

  Europe
• Nikkel Blaase

  Product designer and writer

  Hamburg-based designer writing on product design craft and career growth.

  Europe
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  Oliver Reichenstein

  Founder, iA (Switzerland/Japan)

  Writing-first interface design; essays on typography, clarity and focus.

  Europe
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  Paul Boag

  Digital transformation consultant and author (UK)

  Helps organisations become user-centred, not just ship user-centred artefacts.

  Europe
• Sandra Mouta

  Head of Training, Tangível (Portugal)

  Leads UX training programmes and helps teams build human-centred design capability.

  Europe
• Sarah Drummond

  Service designer, co-founder of Snook

  Service design for public services in the UK; writes on designing systems and organisations.

  Europe
• Sophie Freiermuth

  Content design consultant

  Works with product teams across Europe on content design and language systems.

  Europe
• Stefanie Posavec

  Data designer, co-author of Dear Data

  Explores hand-crafted data visualisation and personal data as a design material.

  Europe
• Szeran Millo

  Managing Director, Symetria UX (Poland)

  Runs one of Poland's leading UX consultancies, pairing research with product design delivery.

  Europe
• Tjeerd de Boer

  Managing Director, User Intelligence (Netherlands)

  Leads a UX agency specialising in research-driven service and product design across Europe.

  Europe
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  Vitaly Friedman

  Co-founder, Smashing Magazine (Germany)

  Runs the workshops and articles most front-end and UX teams learn patterns from.

  Europe
• Wojciech Chojnacki

  Strategy Director, Symetria UX (Poland)

  Leads research-led UX strategy work; a key voice in Poland's growing UX practice.

  Europe
• Aakreit Sachdeva

  Design leader, Monotype

  Works at the intersection of typography, product design and brand systems.

  India
• Abhishek Mahamkali

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works across product design and prototyping for digital products.

  India
• Abhishek Sharma

  UX designer (India)

  Practises interaction design and contributes to the Indian design community.

  India
• Adarsh Panikkar

  Product designer, Kitt

  Designs developer and productivity tooling experiences.

  India
• Adeel Haider Khan

  Product designer (India)

  Designs end-to-end experiences with strong attention to detail.

  India
• Agnel Ambekar

  UX designer (India)

  Focuses on interaction design and usability for consumer applications.

  India
• Aishvarya Gupta

  Product designer (India)

  Designs user journeys and interface systems for consumer products.

  India
• Ajay Jaiswal

  Product designer (India)

  Designs digital products and shares work with the design community.

  India
• Ajay Kudal

  Product designer (India)

  Designs product flows and interfaces for Indian consumer apps.

  India
• Anirudha Joshi

  Professor, IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

  HCI research and Indic-language interaction design; shaped HCI education in India.

  India
• Anish Alok Jena

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works across product design, prototyping and usability testing.

  India
• Ankit Parmar

  Product designer (India)

  Crafts product interfaces and contributes to the Indian design community.

  India
• Annoop Joy

  Design leader, Times Internet

  Designs news and content experiences for millions of Indian readers.

  India
• Anoop Kumar

  Design leader, CRED

  Crafts premium, design-led experiences for India's credit-card ecosystem.

  India
• Ansh Mehra

  Design educator and creator, Zuddl

  One of India's most-watched design educators; makes AI-era design careers accessible.

  India
• Ashique Ukkadan

  Product designer (India)

  Designs end-to-end product experiences with strong visual craft.

  India
• Ashwin Wilson

  Design leader, Pine Labs

  Designs payments and commerce infrastructure experiences for merchants.

  India
• Atul Khola

  Design leader, CRED

  Works on interaction craft and product polish across the CRED ecosystem.

  India
• Aurobinda Pradhan

  Design leader and maker of UXassist (Bengaluru)

  Works on design operations, product design practice and tools that help UX teams move faster.

  India
• Debi Prasad Mishra

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works on product experience design across web and mobile platforms.

  India
• Dhvanil Patel

  Product design leader (Bengaluru)

  Design systems, product craft and team building inside Indian SaaS and consumer startups.

  India
• Divye Bokdia

  Design leader, Upstox

  Simplifies investing and trading journeys for first-time Indian users.

  India
• Durgaprasad Vemula

  UX design leader (Hyderabad)

  Interaction and product design practice, community building and design mentorship.

  India
• Fardeen Khan

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works across product and visual design for digital-first products.

  India
• Gaurav Joshi

  Design leader, Disney+ Hotstar

  Shapes streaming experiences for India's biggest live events and entertainment.

  India
• Gaurav Mathur

  Design leader, Flipkart

  Designs commerce experiences at scale for one of India's largest marketplaces.

  India
• Girish Prabhu

  HCI researcher and design educator (Pune)

  Human-centred design research for emerging markets; long career across industry research labs.

  India
• Goutam Naik

  Product designer (India)

  Designs usable, polished product experiences for Indian users.

  India
• Hardik Nariya

  Design leader, GRUBBRR

  Designs commerce and self-ordering product experiences end to end.

  India
• Himanshu Gupta

  Design educator, UX Labs

  Runs hands-on UX education and mentorship for aspiring product designers.

  India
• Jaideep Singh Vishal Rao

  Design leader, Gnani.ai

  Designs conversational AI and voice-first product experiences.

  India
• Jay Dutta

  Chief Experience Officer and design leader

  One of India's most visible UX leaders; mentors design teams across fintech and SaaS.

  India
• Juhi Chitra

  Product designer (India)

  Designs thoughtful product flows and shares craft learnings with the community.

  India
• Kartikay Agarwal

  UX designer (India)

  Practises interaction design and usability for digital products.

  India
• Kshitiz Sharma

  UX designer (India)

  Practises research-led product design for Indian digital ecosystems.

  India
• Lalit Suneja

  Product designer (India)

  Designs digital product experiences and shares learnings openly.

  India
• Madumitha Ramesh

  UX designer (India)

  Practises user research and interaction design for digital products.

  India
• Mayur Chaudhary

  Design leader, Publicis Sapient

  Leads enterprise digital transformation and product design engagements.

  India
• Meenal Mathur

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works across UX research and product design practice.

  India
• Mrudula Shrikanth

  UX research and design practitioner (Bengaluru)

  Focuses on user research, inclusive design and translating insight into product decisions.

  India
• Muktha Hiremath

  UX design leader (Bengaluru)

  Builds and mentors product design teams across enterprise and consumer products.

  India
• Nakul Shenoy

  UX practitioner, author and speaker (Bengaluru)

  Writes and speaks on user experience, behaviour and the psychology behind design choices.

  India
• Nina Chandi

  UX designer (India)

  Focuses on usability, accessibility and user-centred product decisions.

  India
• Nitesh Kumar Harvinder Singh

  Design leader, Shiprocket

  Designs logistics and e-commerce enablement tools for Indian sellers.

  India
• Nitin Mathur

  Design leader, The Merc

  Leads product design practice for consumer-facing digital products.

  India
• Paritosh Kumra

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works across product design and interaction craft.

  India
• Parth Pandav

  Product designer (India)

  Designs clean, usable interfaces for digital products.

  India
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  Prasad Kantamneni

  Co-founder, UXReactor (Hyderabad)

  Built a UX consultancy practice with a strong research-led design framework.

  India
• Pratik Aher

  UX designer (India)

  Practises user research and design for consumer digital products.

  India
• Praveen Kumar

  Product design leader, India UX community

  Speaks and writes on scaling design practice inside fast-growing Indian product teams.

  India
• Priyanka Sharma

  UX designer (India)

  Practises user research and design for large-scale digital products.

  India
• Punit Chawla

  Founder, Designwings UX/UI School

  Teaches UX/UI craft to thousands of designers through courses and content.

  India
• Rafi Ali Khan

  Engineering and UX leader (Bengaluru)

  Bridges engineering and experience design — usability engineering, product craft and mentoring.

  India
• Rahul Saini

  Design leader, Paytm

  Leads product design for consumer payments used by millions every day.

  India
• Rahul Sengupta

  Design leader, Indian product ecosystem (Pune)

  Works across service design and product experience for large-scale platforms.

  India
• Rajesh Ghodke

  Design leader and HCI practitioner (Pune)

  Long-time interaction design practitioner and mentor in the Indian HCI and UX community.

  India
• Rajiv Kakati

  Founder, Yellowchalk Design

  Runs a product design studio shaping experiences for startups and enterprises.

  India
• Rochelle Fernandes

  Product designer (India)

  Designs human-centred digital experiences and champions inclusive practice.

  India
• Rohan Arora

  Product designer (India)

  Designs user-centred digital products with a focus on clarity.

  India
• Rohan Verma

  Product designer, Urban Company

  Designs service-marketplace experiences used across India's home-services space.

  India
• Sachin K.

  Product designer (India)

  Designs consumer and enterprise product experiences end to end.

  India
• Salonee Nadkarni

  UX designer (India)

  Practises interaction design and accessibility-aware product work.

  India
• Sampada Sherlekar

  Product designer (India)

  Designs user-centred products and participates in UX community events.

  India
• Saravind KV

  UX designer (India)

  Practises user experience design across web and mobile products.

  India
• Sarit Arora

  Design leader and UX community organiser (Bengaluru)

  Organises design meetups and mentors early-career designers across the Bengaluru UX scene.

  India
• Sarun Sasi

  Design leader, Third Wave Coffee

  Designs consumer brand and ordering experiences for a growing coffee chain.

  India
• Satyam Patel

  Product designer, Dream11

  Crafts fantasy-sports product experiences and interaction patterns at scale.

  India
• Saurabh Soni

  Product designer, Razorpay

  Designs fintech and merchant-facing products for Indian businesses.

  India
• Shalin Jose

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works across product and visual design for growing digital products.

  India
• Sharon Prakash

  UX researcher (Hyderabad)

  Qualitative research practice for enterprise products and accessibility-aware design.

  India
• Shreyash Mukesh

  Product designer (India)

  Crafts interfaces and design systems for fast-moving product teams.

  India
• Siddharth Bajpai

  Design leader, 3 Minds Digital

  Leads product design and strategy for digital-first client work.

  India
• Siddharth Verma

  UX designer (India)

  Practises research and interaction design for consumer platforms.

  India
• Sruthi Sivakumar

  Design leader, Wint Wealth

  Designs approachable investing products for retail users.

  India
• Sudhir Sharma

  Founder, INDI Design and Pool magazine

  Champion of Indian design culture, community and design entrepreneurship.

  India
• Swapna Thavidaboyna

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works across UX research and product design for enterprise products.

  India
• Swapnil Agarwal

  Design leader, Roc8

  Builds design talent and leads product design for high-growth startups.

  India
• Tanmay Kashyap

  Product designer (India)

  Designs intuitive flows and visual systems for early-stage products.

  India
• Umesh Shebe

  Principal UX designer, LTIMindtree

  Veteran interaction and visual designer; writes on UX blind spots and hands-on design craft.

  India
• Urvashi Kaushik

  Product designer (India)

  Designs digital product experiences and mentors early-career designers.

  India
• Vijay Ramchandani

  Product designer (India)

  Designs digital experiences and contributes to community learning.

  India
• Vikas Jarmale

  Product designer (India)

  Designs product interfaces and workflows for growing teams.

  India
• Vishakha Agrawal

  Product designer (India)

  Designs consumer product experiences with a research-informed approach.

  India
• Vivek Mhatre

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works across product design, prototyping and design systems.

  India
• Yash Jadhav

  Design practitioner (India)

  Works across visual and product design for fast-moving teams.

  India
• Zainab Delawala

  Product designer (India)

  Designs thoughtful product experiences and mentors new designers.

  India
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  Fabricio Teixeira

  Co-editor, UX Collective (Brazil/US)

  Curates the most-read UX publication on Medium with Caio Braga.

  Latin America
• Jorge Barahona

  Founder & CEO, AyerViernes (Chile)

  Pioneer of UX practice in Latin America; leads AyerViernes' research and experience consultancy.

  Latin America
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  Abby Covert

  Information architect, author of How to Make Sense of Any Mess

  Teaches information architecture to people who don't call themselves architects.

  United States
• Alan Cooper

  “Father of Visual Basic”, author of The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

  Introduced goal-directed design and personas to software product teams.

  United States
• Andrew Ko

  Professor, University of Washington Information School

  Researches human aspects of programming, accessibility and computing education.

  United States
• Ben Shneiderman

  Professor emeritus, University of Maryland; author of Human-Centered AI

  HCI pioneer whose recent work sets out a framework for reliable, safe human-centred AI.

  United States
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  Brad Frost

  Author of Atomic Design

  The mental model most design systems are still built on.

  United States
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  Cheryl Platz

  Author of Design Beyond Devices; multimodal design specialist

  Designs voice, ambient and multimodal experiences; previously Amazon Alexa and Microsoft.

  United States
• Christian Crumlish

  Product design leader, author of Product Management for UX People

  Bridges product management and design practice for design-led teams.

  United States
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  Christina Wodtke

  Lecturer at Stanford, author of Radical Focus

  Teaches design and teamwork at Stanford; writes on OKRs, strategy and high-performing teams.

  United States
• Dan Brown

  Co-founder of EightShapes, author of Practical Design Discovery

  Information architecture and design system practice; long-running writer on design process.

  United States
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  Dan Mall

  Design systems advisor, founder of Design System University

  Teaches teams how to build and adopt systems that people actually use.

  United States
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  Don Norman

  Author, The Design of Everyday Things

  Coined the term “user experience”. Cognitive scientist, founding director of the Design Lab at UC San Diego.

  United States
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  Erika Hall

  Co-founder Mule Design, author of Just Enough Research

  The clearest voice on pragmatic, jargon-free research inside product teams.

  United States
• Gavin Lew

  Co-founder & Managing Director, Bold Insight (US)

  Co-founded a global UX research firm and co-authored It's Our Research; veteran of usability practice.

  United States
• Golden Krishna

  Author of The Best Interface Is No Interface

  Argues for screenless, process-first design — a useful corrective to UI-first work.

  United States
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  Indi Young

  Researcher, author of Mental Models and Time to Listen

  Developed mental model diagrams and teaches deep listening research.

  United States
• Irene Au

  Design partner at Khosla Ventures, ex-Google/Yahoo/Udacity design lead

  Built design orgs at internet scale; writes on design leadership and wellbeing.

  United States
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  Jakob Nielsen

  Usability pioneer, co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group

  Author of the 10 usability heuristics that most teams still evaluate against.

  United States
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  Jared Spool

  Co-founder, Center Centre / UIE

  Four decades of usability practice, teaching and famously sharp talks.

  United States
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  John Maeda

  Design and technology leader, author of The Laws of Simplicity

  Bridges computation, design and business — long-running Design in Tech reports.

  United States
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  Jon Yablonski

  Designer, author of Laws of UX

  Distilled psychology principles into a widely used reference for interface designers.

  United States
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  Jorge Arango

  Information architect, author of Living in Information

  Works on information architecture for complex digital places; hosts The Informed Life.

  United States
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  Josh Clark

  Founder of Big Medium; designs AI-era interfaces

  Design systems and machine-learning interface patterns for large organisations.

  United States
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  Julie Zhuo

  Co-founder Sundial, ex-VP Product Design at Facebook

  Author of The Making of a Manager — design leadership and craft at scale.

  United States
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  Karen McGrane

  Content strategist, author of Content Strategy for Mobile

  Content modelling, adaptive content and design for the long tail of devices.

  United States
• Kat Holmes

  Inclusive design leader, author of Mismatch

  Pioneered inclusive design practice at Microsoft and has led design at Google and Salesforce.

  United States
• Kate Moran

  Senior UX Director, Nielsen Norman Group

  Writes and teaches widely-used research, content and IA guidance at NN/g.

  United States
• Kentaro Toyama

  Professor, University of Michigan; HCI for development

  Researches technology and social change, drawing on years of fieldwork in India.

  United States
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  Kim Goodwin

  Author, Designing for the Digital Age

  Scenario-driven design, personas done properly, and org design for UX.

  United States
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  Luke Wroblewski

  Product leader, author of Mobile First

  Form design, mobile-first patterns and product thinking, backed by data.

  United States
• Nathan Curtis

  Co-founder of EightShapes; design systems practitioner

  Widely cited writing on design system teams, tokens and governance models.

  United States
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  Sara Wachter-Boettcher

  Author, Technically Wrong and Design for Real Life

  Writes and coaches on ethical content design and the human cost of careless product decisions.

  United States
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  Sarah Doody

  UX researcher, founder of Career Strategy Lab

  Research practice, portfolios and how UX people tell their career story.

  United States
• Sheri Byrne-Haber

  Accessibility architect and author

  Writes extensively on digital accessibility strategy, compliance and disability inclusion.

  United States
• Shreyas Doshi

  Product leader and advisor

  Former Stripe, Twitter and Google product leader; widely read on product craft and quality.

  United States
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  Steve Krug

  Author, Don't Make Me Think

  Made usability testing something any team can do on a Tuesday morning.

  United States
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  Steve Portigal

  Researcher, author of Interviewing Users

  Consultant and educator on field research and interviewing craft.

  United States
• Torrey Podmajersky

  UX content strategist, author of Strategic Writing for UX

  Content design leader whose book is a standard reference for UX writing practice.

  United States
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  Tricia Wang

  Tech ethnographer, co-founder Sudden Compass

  “Thick data” — why qualitative insight beats dashboards for big decisions.

  United States
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  Vitor Lourenço

  Product design leader

  Former design lead at Twitter and Squarespace; writes on craft and design leadership.

  United States