When trying to find a mentor, you first need to decide what you need from a mentor – for example what skills you’d like to develop and what your goals are. Then consider what characteristics you’re looking for in a mentor.
After that it’s easy, and can be done in three easy steps:
Take a look through the available mentors on this page.
Email Sharon at mentoring@uxpa-uk.org with: – a choice of 3-5 mentors you find suitable from the list below (according to the mentors keywords/skills/experience) – a few short paragraphs on what your experience/background is (this will help the mentors too); – what you expect from a mentor (what do you want help/guidance on?); – where you’re based, and how you want communicate (face to face, email, skype etc)
We’ll chat through your options and choices, check mentor availability, and put you in touch with your mentor.
Please note that the mentoring programme is a privilege for UXPA UK Members only. If you are not currently a member, find out how to join UXPA UK.
I’m a European UX/Product Designer currently designing Cloud products for SRE, DevOps at IBM Cloud and AI in London. I help teams to design and deliver complex B2b products and I have a passion for data visualisation and design systems.
In my free time, I’m a member of the jury of cssdesignawards and I support UXPA-UK to run events.
Anshumali is a designer & theorist working towards mapping of customer experiences in Voice, Conversational AI & associated emerging technologies. She is excited about the potential of AI in providing us fulfilled moments where most of us seem to be overwhelmed with technology. She is a part of the Magenta Voice Program at Deutsche Telekom, Germany’s Innovation Hub. There, she designs experiences for Telekom’s Hallo Magenta assistant. In the past, she led a team which designed conversational experiences for Bixby, Samsung’s Intelligent Assistant at Samsung R & D Institute, Bangalore, India. Her work has also led to patents in the field of AI. She loves engaging with the design community. In the past, she has been a mentor at UXPA Boston conference & regularly mentors hackathons. She is an alumni of the IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, India, specialising in Interaction Design.
Anshumali is based in Bonn, Germany, the majority of my mentoring is likely to be via email, skype Google Meet
I have worked in the UX field for around 9 years, prior that I studied for my Masters in Multimedia at the University of Westminster. Currently, I am a Senior UX Designer at Cohaesus, an insight-led digital agency in London.
Before joining Cohaesus in June 2020, I had a variety of permanent and freelance roles. This experience has given me a good amount of exposure across different businesses and industries, both agency and client-side.
I’m looking forward to having the opportunity to help people starting their UX careers, or learn more about the UX process. I am currently working remotely full time from SE London. However, I am happy to meet in person or remotely.
Pragmatism at work – navigating workplace politics and picking your battles
Craft, design process, and pixel pushing
I’ve been working in design full time since 2013, across everything from marketing to UX, Design Sprints, and interface design. During this time I’ve worked for startups, scale ups, and (via agencies) a few big companies like Google and Canon. I’m also a musician, artist, and co-host of meditation podcast awake-in.com.
London based. Always nice to meet face to face but happy to chat over a call.
Hello folks! I’ve worked in UX for the past 7 years since getting my Masters in Human Computer Interaction from University College London. I’m currently in a permanent role as a Senior Experience Designer at moo.com, which is an online print and design company best known for making premium business cards and stationery. Before joining MOO, I freelanced for 4 years, which gave me quite a mix of experience across businesses and industries, both client and agency side. I’ve loved the variety of my career so far, but I’m not a unicorn – I’ve been happiest focusing on UX design, strategy and research, and I’ve never gone too deep into related spheres like UI, visual design and coding. Check out my online portfolio at byronfernandes.com to find out more about me and my philosophy, and to see some examples of things I’ve worked on.
I’ve been a User Experience Designer for more than 20 years, normally working client side, often on big projects, many of which have not been web-based. I’ve designed Geographic Information Systems; water network resource allocation systems; worked on Police interview recorders and on crime analysis software; designed forestry systems for chain of custody; designed systems for student examinations; designed systems for Rotating Equipment Engineers to analyse vibration in power station turbines; and now work in Finance and Risk (Goldman, then HSBC and now Refinitiv).
For about 20 years I have based my approach on Cooper’s Goal-Directed Design approach; though have adapted this to be Agile in recent years. I’ve found nearly all of my design insights have originated from the anthropology part of the job, so often encourage people to start there. I created an innovation training course within Goldman Sachs, and this too starts with fieldwork. Diversity makes a lot of sense to me as a designer and my recent employers have also seen the value. I created and ran an Accessibility programme at the Goldman and was an LGBT Ally there too. I’m doing similar things at Refinitiv.
Some of the best UXers I know have no formal background in UX but in case it’s of interest I have a PhD in Applied Psychology (HCI) from Cranfield (College of Aeronautics); a MSc in AI and a BSc in Maths for Business. I’m hopeless at visual design but am ok at commissioning that part of the work and getting it done. I’m was mentoring champion for my group at Goldman Sachs and have gained hugely from my mentors and from doing my best to be a mentor.
Happy to chat to practitioners and people getting started in the field. I’ve mainly worked in-house, or as an independent, so can’t tell you anything about operating within an agency but have views on agencies from the client side of things.
I’m based in Canary Wharf during the week and live in Kingston-Upon-Thames and work from home sometimes. I’m happy to meet for a coffee or Skype.
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I’ve been designing digital products for over ten years, specialising for the last six years in entertainment products for the broadcast and sports industries. During this time I’ve designed products for clients like Formula 1, Arsenal, the Olympics, BBC, and Sky.
I now head up the research, UX and UI design teams at Ostmodern, and focus on setting them up for success and then getting out of their way. I don’t believe there is a set way to ‘do UX’, and try to help my teams forge their own path and develop their own processes, providing advice on different ways to solve problems, rather than solving the problems for them.
Educated in product design, I co-founded a start-up, invented and patented the technology on which it was based, and helped grow the business to 40+ people over the next 5 years.
I’m currently leading and growing the UX and Conversion Rate Optimisation disciplines at McCann Manchester – the number 1 integrated agency and top 10 digital agency of the North.
Having mentored several account managers into successful midweight UXers and helped visual designers transition into UX, I am now looking to be more involved in the community and mentor outside my organisation.
I am Nielsen Norman Group UX certified with hundreds of hours of usability testing experience. I regularly conduct internal training and deliver my own usability training course to industry. I can offer practitioner support across the verticals of UX (research, IA, Usability, Interaction etc.) but also the critical soft skills and working practices required by industry.
In addition to this, I can advise on the application of these skills for Conversion Rate Optimisation and assist with the emerging practices of copyhacking, persuasive design and web psychologies.
I’m looking for someone who has the passion for UX and the desire to develop their skills, their approach, and how they need to ‘be’. We’ll start by mapping out your current T skills and then look at how we shape these, fill in the gaps, and extend your breadth and depth.
I’ve been in the UX industry for 10 years – designing websites, apps and all other kinds of digital products. Though I originally trained as a developer, I soon realised that I didn’t have the patience for writing production code. But I loved making prototypes, and sharing them with users.
This was how I first discovered UX. I found my calling in a field that’s all about rapid prototyping, testing and iteration.
Most of my career has been spent in agencies and consultancies, so it’s given me the chance to work with a bunch of different businesses. From tech startups to giants like Tesco, HSBC and Aviva.
I bring UX thinking and digital strategy to help teams make better, more useful products.
I currently run my own interface design & development agency; ‘Pixel Fridge’. I’m based in south London, but my work takes me all over the city. Looking to help people start their UX careers, or learn more about the UX design process.
I started my career in UX back in 2000 when the term UX didn’t exist and no-one really knew what the hell Usability was. I learned my trade by reading a lot of books, asking a lot of questions, and getting things horribly wrong. I started back in 2000 within a large London web agency, then took a human factors role working in voice recognition, before jumping to a Usability Engineer role at the BBC. I took a very serious deviation into Human Factors in air traffic at NATS, before returning back to the comfort of the web agency world again. In 2007 I realised I was a terrible employee and decided to set up my own UX business and that’s what I’ve done ever since.
What I can offer as a mentor is experience working client side and agency side. I also mentor and train the UX team at Experience UX to be the best they can be. I have a strong focus on user research and believe this should be the foundation of any UX work. If you believe the same then we should get along well.
I am based in Bournemouth and although regularly in London for client meetings, the majority of my mentoring is likely to be via video calls. I’m happy to discuss anything but at the very beginning I’d like to get a clear understanding of what you are looking to achieve through mentoring.
I’ve been helping to deliver friction-free digital user experiences for nearly 20 years. I started working in UX before it was really called UX.
I’ve designed, tested, built, delivered, and managed websites, intranets, software, and information systems for some of the UK’s biggest names, including Sophos, Nationwide Building Society, Lloyds Banking Group, Scottish and Southern Energy, and the government’s chief adviser on the natural environment, Natural England.
I’m passionate about using my deep knowledge of user experience to lead organisational change, solve business problems, and to tame complex products.
I’ve spoken at a number of UX conferences and meetups, including: Collaborate, Bristol; UX Cheltenham; UX in the City, Oxford; UX Scotland; and Learning Technologies.
I’d be best suited to someone just starting out in UX who’d like to draw upon a senior UXer’s skills and experience to help embed a culture of user-centred design within your organisation. I’d also be happy to offer advice to those looking to take those first tentative steps on to the conference stage.
I have led teams to create impactful, effective and profitable products, experiences and services for some of the largest companies in the world. I have deep experience in financial services, retail, automotive and telecoms. As a mentor and manager, I believe the best way to lead is by doing, so I am never far away from sketching, designing and solving complex challenges for clients. My career has taken me inside agencies, consultancies and startups where I have grown departments and established UX and product design as a core discipline.
Likely mentoring: – UX management, Building UX competency in an organisation (training/standards/infrastructure) – User-Centred Design process (Business goals, User Research, stages in Design and User Test) – International teams & projects – techniques/toolsLikely mentees: staff moving to UX roles or UX management.Current Position: UX Strategist for 9 yrs; – Consulting projects – Engage with business/technical stakeholders to setup and manage UX projects in Europe & South Africa; – UX management and capability building, – Strategic projects & Mission critical products. – Teach User Centred Design and UX management (I19) classes across Europe.Project experience: – Build UX capability at corporates (tailored UCD processes, standards, infrastructure, skills training…) – mission-critical applications (multi-role banking for corporates, insurance and banking call-centre, forex) – hands-on work, including end to end User Centred Design, expert review, user-testing.Mode of working; – Lead international multi-skilled teams in a technical management role – hands-on user-research, design and user-testing.
My career has spanned over 9 years, working for some of the largest corporations in the world improving customer experiences. On the side, I am the founder of UXClub.com which provides affordable learning for both seasoned and aspiring UX Designers.
I have been working in UX for a few years on a wide range of brands ranging from consumer to B2B, and started as an apprentice in 2014. I currently work at the BBC in the service design team working on internal tools, at the moment designing the article builder for BBC News. I’ve worked with a variety of teams, in different ways and have experience across the entire UX process. I believe I can help most in building relationships, stakeholder management, and for people new to UX especially those who are navigating working in a large company.
I’m based in London, and am happy to meet virtually or in person
A global consultancy in strategy, design and engineering
Agile user experience design across the full lifecycle
Product discovery using prototypes, fake doors, concierge and wizard of oz methods
UX design, strategy and research
Working in product teams and collaborating with product and engineering
Scaling UX across multiple teams
Planning and facilitating workshops with users, stakeholders, execs (remote and in-person)
Principal Consultant in Product & Design. I’m a product-shaped designer, focusing on strategy, discovery and agile/lean product development. I’ve been working in product and design for nearly 15 years, starting in finance and then working in a number of different industries and domains as a consultant at Thoughtworks.
I believe that true collaboration between design, product and engineering is the secret of high performing teams and businesses. So my focus is on building 1-1 relationships and democratising design to get everyone to care about users and the experience. This is my design superpower.
In the past few years, I’ve focused on mentoring and coaching designers and have really enjoyed helping people develop in their career. I’d love the opportunity to help you with the goals you’re pursuing .
I’m based in London and happy to meet up face to face (when covid restrictions allow) or connect over a video call
Experienced Lead User Experience Researcher primarily responsible for designing, conducting, analysing, and reporting on user-centred design research and usability testing.
Experience in conducting both moderated and unmoderated research. Able to construct surveys, conduct lab studies and customer journey mapping projects in order to undrstand how target audiences behave outside of the digital product.
Strong UX background with a Master’s Degree focused on Human-Computer Interaction from the University of York
I combine UX design with product management. A well designed product is useless unless it ends up being validated, built, and delivered to users. My career has winded through managing large corporate solutions, through pure UX research and design, ending up in leading end-to-end product design and development within a startup. I believe anyone can design for themselves. That’s not a skill. The real skill of a UX designer and product manager is designing and building for other people. Solving users’ problems in a way that keeps them coming back and delivers on business goals. We are creative problem solvers.
I began my career at British Aerospace before moving to digital agencies where he introduced UX ‘undercover’ without budgets or permission and grew the discipline into a major part of the agency offering. In 2004 I founded cxpartners along with Richard Caddick and grew it to be one of the most respected UX agencies in the world with 60 staff in London and Bristol. I’m invited to speak at conferences all over the world (something I hadn’t considered doing until a client suggested I should). Good if you want to learn about planning a UX career, undercover UX, managing people, managing change, building a speaking career.
Currently contracting at Shell, view my portfolio here
UX research
Workshop planning and facilitation
Wire-framing, prototyping and tools
User-centric thinking
Stakeholder management
I’ve been working in UX since 2010 and I’ve worked on a lot of different projects, especially since becoming a contractor. I’ve helped companies such as Lloyds, Aviva, Conde Nast (Vogue, GQ), EDF and Shell.
My background is Graphic Design, though I’ve also done coding and Service Design. This gives me a broad perspective and allows for more strategic thinking.
I’d love to be able to help someone out and pass on what I’ve learned. I’m based in SE1 London and am open to meeting face to face or remotely.
I’m currently Head of User Research and have 20 years’ experience in the UX industry. My experience spans the telecoms, retail, health, utilities, insurance, financial and non-profit industries.
Working at a strategic and project level, I support the integration of UX research, design and evaluation across multi-channel and cross-cultural services. I’m currently working in conversational UX (voice, chatbots, assistants) and also have experience across web, mobile, social media and device UX.
I typically help with mentoring in user research, UX strategy and process, managing UX, and career development. I’ve also helped mentees work through specific UX issues such as getting stakeholder buy-in for UX, formalising UX processes, ensuring user research results in actionable insight, measuring UX, identifying and addressing UX skill gaps and getting started in conversational UX.
I’ve been an interaction designer for the past 8 years, working at various size agencies across the cultural, luxury and publishing sectors, as well as giving talks at conferences and mentoring early stage startups as part of Google launchpad and design students from London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins. I’m keen to mentor junior UX or those looking to move into the field.
I’ve worked on small to large projects such as strategy for Net-A-Porter to Apps for BBC from discovery, through design to delivery, conducting various types of user research as well as full UX design, prototyping and various collaborative workshops along the way. I have managed teams throughout these processes mentoring both UX staff as well as designers and strategists in UX and design thinking and research methods.
UX & Product Designer; Currently Lead UX Designer at NatWest Group
Digital strategy
User research, analytics & testing
UX, CX & Service design
Product design
Career and personal development
I am a Lead UX/Product Designer, with a previous background in visual design. With over 8 years experience, I strive to design experiences that make people smile.
Having spent the last 5 years freelancing in London, I’ve had the privilege to work on a range of different roles and industries, solving a range of problems for a diverse set of users. I’ve worked in Startups, Agencies, in-House, on-site and for non-profit companies. Over this time I’ve been able to work on iterative product features, new proposition design, full app and website redesigns, internal employee tools, and complex system design.
I’ve landed in Fintech, as I find it is an area that is riddled with complex issues and problems that need to be solved, and bound by outdated constraints and thinking. This creates interesting design challenges that are fufilling to work on.
I’m particularly interested in how designers can harness emerging technologies to create more meaningful and ethical experiences within society, and how we can balance our digital and physical lives to be more fulfilled.
I would love to work with developing designers to gain confidence to use their skills and talent to their full potential.
If you feel you are struggling with ‘imposter syndrome’, not getting enough support at work and or are constantly doubting yourself, I want to help you overcome those barriers. It’s important that as designers, we learn to harness these feelings to fuel our innovative thinking and explore the unknown – and it’s much easier than you think.
As Head of Creative I’m responsible for shaping how Foolproof generates and delivers creative ideas. This means I’m always looking to evolve and challenge working methodologies and practices to drive the studio’s creative thinking, idea generation, reports and experience design recommendations. My role is to provide overall creative direction to the projects and initiatives coming from the entire design studio, from inception to delivery.
Prior to joining Foolproof I worked at top digital agencies and have led many digital transformation programmes for a whole bunch of brands across commercial and government. Many of these projects have been recognised with industry awards. During my career I have been lucky enough to work on many exciting projects and have designed interfaces for pretty much all devices/contexts imaginable. I feel this has given me a very broad understanding of what makes a great experience and the importance of validating these interfaces with users. Getting stuck into a juicy client brief or challenge, and knowing that the products I have helped design are being used out in the wild gives me a kick.
I’m currently a Service Design Lead at Kingfisher Digital. I lead a team of UX and visual designers creating omnichannel services. I’ve got 7 years prior experience as an agency side UX designer and transitioned into my design career from a career in financial tech in business analyst and project manager roles.
I’m always interested in offering advice and mentoring for those interested in developing and discussing their experiences in user centered design, design facilitation, lean UX and designing within Agile teams.
I am a user researcher, interaction designer and web accessibility specialist turned front-end developer. I care a lot about ensuring that the user interfaces we design and build are inclusive and accessible. I’m happy to coach people who are learning about accessibility and inclusive design.
Balancing existing customer needs and identifying new ones through user / market research
Lean UX & being a ‘team of one’ at a startup
Running practical usability testing with few resources
Improving UI Design Skills
Early Stage career advice & design at consultancy
Hello! I’m Jake, I head up user experience design at navigation and routing start-up, Beeline. Having worked in consultancy where I led on the NatWest Housemates experience, now you’ll find me cycling around Southeast England after test participants, covered in recording equipment.
Blending my love for cycling and experience design, I help Beeline make journeys by bicycle even better by tackling barriers like the perception of safety, accessibility and ease of use. Across web, mobile apps and our proprietary navigation hardware, I run market and user research, UX strategy, workshops, concept generation and wireframing/UI, through to working with development on shipping new features and measuring what changes.
Before Beeline, I worked at Tata Consultancy Services as a UX/UI generalist, mainly on government or banking and financial service projects for global clients. Collaborating with offshore teams and bringing a new UX perspective into large, slow-moving organisations are among the things I learned there.
Originally from Norfolk, UK, I studied half of a Psychology BSc and a whole Product Design BSc at Sussex University.
I am based in London, happy to meet face-to-face or virtually.
I am a strategic and visionary ex-Experience Director with over a decade of experience – leading and helping companies to innovate, to instil Human-Centric Design approach and to grow. I currently work for Bain & Company as their most senior Designer in EMEA.
Throughout my career I have been designing interactions in the intersection of people, products and environments; bring out incremental and revolutionary changes for people I design for and empower them to do what they love. My experiences include planning; scoping; formalising design practices; and working across the end to end design innovation cycle. I inspire, mentor designers; manage and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to drive quality design and service solutions.
I’ve worked in London, New York, UAE and Taiwan. My clients include BP, BT, Sony, Google, Scottish Power, Tiffany & Co., Kellogg’s, Toyota, Macquarie, Lloyds, Barclays and more. I am on Twitter and LinkedIn, feel free to follow, connect, and say Hi!
I’m a Principal Interaction Designer at Intuit where I lead product design for the UK market. My goal at Intuit is to create delightful products that allow small businesses and entrepreneurs to overcome the burdens of accountancy.
My design philosophy lies at the intersection of two cornerstones: the first is Lean Startup-inspired hypothesis-driven design and the second is application of cognitive science to technology. The real magic of product design happens only through extremely close links between design research that creates empathy for the user, and interaction design methods that allow designers to rapidly experiment and explore many possible solutions.
Before joining Intuit, I was Lead UX Designer at The Telegraph, where I defined Telegraph’s UX strategy for mobile. I was the lead UX for the high-profile project to bring Telegraph’s new news app to the market. I also worked for BBC Research & Development, prototyping future content discovery experiences, and several design agencies on customer facing products (National Rail Enquiries app), B2B platforms (American Express), cloud services (Canon) and smart TV interfaces (Freesat).
I’ve studied Human-computer Interaction (MSc) and Graphic Design. I co-organise London’s most popular design research Meetup – The Research Thing, and speak at research and design events in the UK and abroad.
Hello! I’m Kasia. I’ve been fortunate to have great mentors in my career so far and I’m looking to give back to the community via mentorship.
In the past 7 years, I’ve worked primarily with startups and scale-ups so can offer guidance on research within fast-paced, agile environments. I’m currently working for Cazoo (automotive), previously Monzo (banking) and Thread (fashion).
I’ve had various jobs prior to becoming a User Researcher and would be happy to share any insights on career switching into UX. Looking forward to meeting you.
Based in Bristol and London. Preference for virtual meetings atm.
I’ve been working in UX and related fields for over 20 years, with experience bot agency side and client side, working on products ranging from mobile apps to market-leading e-commerce sites to enterprise software. The common thread through all of these has been user-centricity and how to engage with users to provide better and more insightful input to the design process.
I am a Senior-level UX designer and qualified Digital Project Manager with 14 years’ experience working across desktop, mobile, app-based, and multi-channel projects, in fast-paced corporate and design agency environments, in both ‘on site’ and remote international teams. Currently working as a UX Architect, within the service delivery team at Slimming World, I am experienced in working as a key member of agile delivery teams in heavily regulated industries including utilities, healthcare, and in retail, as a Design/Studio Lead and as a Digital Project Manager, balancing user needs, business goals, and technological realities, with a proven track record of improving conversion rates, customer experience, and channel transformation.
I started off my career in various hands-on design and coding roles, before progressing to UX, and project management, which I’ve found has helped me become well-rounded in my approach to UX, problem solving, service delivery, and the digital industry in general.
My interest has always been in human-centred design and the psychology of “why we do what we do”, no matter what the medium. As a mentor, what I bring to the table is the knowledge and experience of how to build a career in UX, how to build upon and share ideas, how to present ideas and create buy-in, and how to champion and deliver successful UX projects from start to finish in complex environments.
During 20+ years of working in digital I became increasingly frustrated with the amateurish way that companies were making important design decisions. Personal opinions, hunches and incomplete data were driving experience design. And not User Insight. I started WhatUsersDo to fix this by making user research and user testing BAU.I have already mentored one UXPA member who made a career switch from IT Training and now works at Seren.
I love designing for the users, providing the best possible interaction and experience. I’m a constant learner and enthusiast about new technology and solutions. I’m very interested in problems, the more they are complex, the better. I love to evaluate all the possible solutions, focusing on the outcomes, and challenge the current models to solve the problem and improve people’s lives.
I started my career in Italy when I worked as a contractor for many projects (branding, websites, apps, software design), then I moved to London. I’ve been in London for 3 years, I started working in start-ups and currently, I work at Elsevier where I focus on how to help researchers staying up-to-date with the relevant literature for their research. It’s a very complex problem to solve, and I love meeting with researchers every week and understand more about it in order to deliver the best possible product to help them doing research better. At Elsevier, I also helped to build our Design System and refining our design process.
As a mentor, I hope to give my contribution to the design community and have valuable relationships and discussions in order to help new designers presenting their ideas, being more confident, facilitating design workshops and meetings, and refining their design process. I also see mentoring as a great opportunity to learn and grow as a designer.
Liam is an Experience Design & Strategy Consultant for ThoughtWorks, where he works with industry-leading (or disrupting) organisations to facilitate bolder think around customer experience and value. He helps teams to define ambitious strategy and enables teams to deliver on it.
Primarily focused on design that delights customers but delivers business benefits, Liam has strong competencies in research, information architecture, service design and product strategy (not the old PowerPoint style, either).
Passionate about the value design can bring, Liam spends a lot of time now coaching design teams and executives. He’s done this in both the UK and Bangkok, where he’s currently on a transfer.
To help everyone to become better designers is Liam’s mission and he has spoken internationally on the subject of design at leading design and Agile conferences.
Note: I’ll prioritise any mentoring requests from those of underrepresented or minority groups.
Friendly, highly ambitious Manchester-based UXer and entrepreneur seeks a mentee who wants to take their career to the next level! I’m not for you if you just want advice on which books to read or you’re not sure if you want to get into UX. I’m for you if you’re willing to put in time, dedication and hard work to make a real difference to your life and UX career. We’re going to pretend we’re on the Voice and together we’re going to win the competition! Except there’ll be no singing involved – especially by me!
So, what about me? Well, I have a Masters in Human Factors and Ergonomics and a BSc in Computing and Psychology. I’ve worked with the world’s biggest brands to improve customer experiences. I’m told I’m one of the best researchers out there and I’m really creative. I love applying user insights to solve problems, create new ideas, identify opportunities and especially using psychology to convert people into customers. I’ve worked in all sectors and all platforms.
Other stuff I do includes appearing on TV, radio, writing books, organising and speaking at events, running workshops and finding new ways to improve the UX industry and help people.
I’m Matt, the Chief Experience Officer at 1Password overseeing user experience, research, and design. I’ve been at 1Password for 9 years scaling the design team from 3 to 33 (all remote) and continuing to hire across research, content and product and brand design.
I typically help with mentoring designers growing teams, hiring, specialising, and formalising processes. I have also helped mentees work though specific issues like carving out a career path, internal communication for design, user research approaches and strategies and moving from design to direction.
I’m based in the wilds of Norfolk, UK and work remotely. I have most availability in the mornings to meet either one-off or regularly.
Manprit Kalsi an Experience Design Consultant & UX Strategist with wide-ranging experiences in developing digital products, CX & UX services and process methods. He loves solving people’s problem and building usable products. He works with tech startups, businesses, entrepreneurs and developers in India & across the world and has gained extensive experience working in lean and agile environments.
Based in Dubai, UAE and would prefer online medium like Zoom, Webex, Google Meet.
Head of Behavioural Research at Jaywing at Jaywing
Research skills
Presenting UX
Stakeholder Management & selling
Experimentation
Psychology
Biometric Research
Michael has 7+ years working in a wide variety of digital roles including:
Designer, Optimisation Strategist, UX Consultant and Head of Behavioural research. He also keen on continuous development and progression
Michael is happy to provide mentorship via email and Microsoft teams
With 8 years in the UX industry and 18 years practical design experience, I am currently the lead UR/UX/UI designer for an established startup called Vidsy; who operate within the social media marketing sector and am the founder of a remote working UX consultancy project called A11ycat.
Previously I worked at a large company called Civica, as a senior designer on projects from all sectors including government, fintech, travel and defence. As such I have a vast knowledge and practical aptitude in UX and creative disciplines including user research, user testing, information architecture; although my specialism and passion is creating beautifully usable UI designs, branding, graphics, interactive prototypes & motion design. I also enjoy prototyping and am fluent in HTML, CSS and know a fair amount of jQuery.
Based in London (Aldgate during day, Kingston at weekends) Preference for face to face or email.
I am a User Experience designer based in Rome, Italy, but still available to mentor remotely. I am a creative problem solver, passionate about what people are doing. What I care about is trying to understand how we, as human beings, take decisions and actions all the time. I love changing and adapting to new environments, this is why I have lived, worked and studied in Italy, Portugal and England, often seeking for new challenges.
I am currently working at Assist Digital and I previously worked at Future Platforms, where I developed digital products across multiple channels. Some of my clients include Domino’s Pizza, Glastonbury and Premier League.
I gain insights from research, create scenarios and user flows, run workshops and develop concepts, always using an iterative design approach ranging from paper sketching to digital prototyping. I test, iterate and validate with users at every stage of the process and I work closely with developers during production.
In my free time I constantly try to catch up with the latest technologies and techniques; I improve my skills going to meet-ups, UX events and trainings organised by the UX community, such as Ladies that UX and Mobile UX. In the past few years I undertook three courses organised by IDEO and I obtained the NN/g UX certification.
I find mentoring challenging and exciting; last year I helped five people move into a junior UX position. I am open to help and mentor people that are relatively new to the sector and/or want to find their first job in UX, trying to be as useful as my mentors at the time I started.
A London-based Service Design and Product Design Consultant, I like solving problems and putting technology to good use. My experience ranges from strategic discovery work to fast paced delivery projects for clients in transport, non-profit, retail, finance and government. I love creating products that make a difference. Most exciting challenge to date was the digital transformation of The Metropolitan Police.
I wasn’t always a designer, my background is in linguistics and interpreting. I enjoy travelling, languages and different cultures, but most of all I love collaborating with curious people from various disciplines. Service Design is an exciting place to be, and as someone who transitioned into it from a different career path, I can help new starters with direction and advice. Happy to meet face to face or to mentor people remotely.
I lead a team of cherry-picked expert designers at the London based UX agency Creative Navy. The approach we champion as a top tier team is evidence-based design, where a pragmatic vision is married to a thorough understanding of research practice.
I am fascinated by cognitive science and visual perception. I have pursued this interest in a PhD program and now I conduct both theoretical and applied research with a team of academics. Above all I value the power of imagination and the difficult yet rewarding pursuit of excellence. I’d be happy to support others in growing as design professionals in a meaningful way.
Based in London. Mentoring sessions preferably via Skype or email.
I work as a UX Lead for Deeson, a digital agency based in London. I also have other roles leading projects and coaching the business in our agile processes. We design and build interesting websites, apps, chat bots etc. for interesting clients.
I’m a user experience designer and thinker with more than a decade of experience. I’ve covered a lot of ground in the digital industry working in design, architecture, content, development and project management. I’ve worked both agency and client side. Building strategies and solving problems through user research, design workshops and iteration. I’ve sat on the leadership team at a digital agency and led teams of designers, developers and architects.
I’ve mentored juniors previously, but happy to be a mentor for any level. I’m happy to chat to mentees through video chat or face to face (although that may not always be practical with my location).
Hello! My name is Natalie Massone and I am a UX/UI and Visual Designer. I enjoy Writing and Filmmaking and exploring new immersive technologies (AR/MR/VR/360). I am a passionate researcher and life-long learner of UX/UI Design best practice, Content & Product Strategies, Cross-media and Transmedia Storytelling.
I am a hands-on, visionary and disruptive UX leader, who loves design processes, Agile, Design Thinking and HCD and Accessibility best practice. I help teams to get things done in a collaborative and reiterative way. I support companies in growing their UX maturity through mentoring and research, by inviting the Outside-In mentality to place the users’ needs at the centre of product development. An attitude that helps businesses to meet their goals in a structured way.
In the past 12 years, I worked in start-ups, mid-size and corporate environments, where I enjoyed collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across Product, Development and Marketing; improving the usability of their products and creating smoother omnichannel experiences for their marketing campaigns. I run remote/onsite Design Sprints and UX workshops adapting to specific contexts, balancing users needs and business goals.
I founded Hoppipop! Design Studio to create those fun-engaging-inclusive-educational products that can be accessible and sustainable in today’s frantic digital race. Through mentoring and coaching, I can support like-minded professionals by sharing my experience, skills and knowledge, while I constantly learn from others and research new technologies, ideas and processes.
Based: London (UK)
Preferred method of communication: Remote (Skype, Zoom, Facetime)
A UX lead with 18 years experience for some of the worlds biggest names. Based in Brighton but experience with running large scale UX projects across Europe, North America and Asia.
I have experience with big budgets as well as no budgets so lean UX is a specialty. I also have experience client side as well as agency with a recent stint as Head of UX for MRM Meteorite, a customer experience agency within the McCann Worldgroup network.
As a mentor I can help guide you through the maze and pass on some of the knowledge I’ve gained through the 18 years of my career.
I have a background in Fine Arts, Net.Art, Ars sonora and Interaction design as a student of Arts back in Spain where I’m coming from.I started my professional journey in the digital industry back in 2004 while studying and in full by 2006. Moving to London in 2010 for career progression made me facing new challenges like speaking a new language, discovering a new market and learn from it how to dig in there and get in it. Also define myself as the person and the designer I am now, and the type of projects where I like to work and how to work.
Since then, every single day is a learning process to bring on board. Also, helping others talking through my experiences while mentoring or coaching it helps me to develop myself as a better human being and designer.It’s been a while since I do mentoring or coaching and I do enjoy it.
Keep in touch if you think we could be a good match and I could help you.
Over the last I6 years I’ve been designing digital services for many companies in different sectors and countries. Please find out more about my background and experience at uk.linkedin.com/in/pmianiI’m a continuous learner, I know from my own experience that you could learn and master anything you want, if you have enough motivation and curiosity. I believe that “Learning by doing” and getting the right feedback is the best way to gain confidence and improve your skills.As your mentor, I’ll support you in your journey to master UX skills, I’ll give you shortcuts, tools and advice in achieving your career goals. I’ll coach you to identify your strengths, define a plan with clear outcomes and keep you accountable to it. If your are passionate about UX and are ready to commit to this journey, I’ll be more than happy to help.
Active in the international digital field since 2000, I’m interested in revealing and understanding people’s emerging behaviours and attitude and how technology is influencing and affecting their experiences. Curious and passionate about participative design, creativity, and the experience economy, my goal is to find better ways to generate ideas through the understanding of us, human beings interacting with systems and environments. I’ve worked for 8 years as a freelance consultant and user researcher in Italy before moving to London. In Italy I worked on projects focusing on Accessibility in the areas of education, CA, transportation, Public bodies, and finance. I also combine a sound experience as a researcher gained at London School of Economics, ITTK (Hungary) and various European institutions. On Twitter at @legoviews.
Many years experience leading design projects and teams. Happy to support the community and mentor designers, in particular those new to leadership or getting to grips with a complex project.
I’m a UX lead at Pearson Education who is passionate in shaping the future of education by designing global learning services and products. Previously, I worked in Shanghai heading up the UX team at Education First designing the learning experience for kids.
I took an unconventional journey to UX with a background of Computer Science with Business and integrated my passionate in design with technology. As a result, over the last 9 years I have worked for various industries with multiple roles delivering digital solutions to market including the Ubuntu OS, Orange apps, Wall Street English and Education First’s apps and platform. I believe that it’s possible for anyone to make a career transition to UX so want to share that experience with others and give them that confidence to make the first step. After all, I made that leap with the help of my mentor from UXPA!
I’ve been working as a user researcher for 6 years. Born in South Africa and grew up in New Zealand, I pivoted at university from mechanical engineering into psychology during my masters. In NZ I worked for Caterpillar (construction machinery), before moving to London in 2017. Since moving I’ve been lucky enough to work for Facebook and Google, and currently I’m at Capital One.
I focus on qualitative research, but try to bring in quantitative elements wherever possible. Some notable projects I’ve worked on are the UX for Facebook’s custom meeting room software; event creation in Google Calendar; and a global research trip to create excavator operators personas.
At Capital One I’m a lead user researcher in the design strategy and research team. In this role I’m learning more about UX strategy, training others to do research, and managing large studies.
I’d pair well with someone who is early in their user research career. Looking to know which skills to build, and how to navigate their career path. Someone based in London would be preferred so we can meet in person.
I’ve been working in UX for the past 5 years, and been an integrated graphic designer for 5 years before that. In my career I’ve worked in-house, in agencies and freelanced working on products for companies such as BBC, Spotify, Amazon, Tesco, American Express and Google.
I’m currently a Design Team Lead at Cazoo, working as a lead product designer within the operations teams and line managing a small team of designers providing leadership and career guidance. My strengths lie in product strategy, service design, design leadership skills, and end-to-end UX process.
I’ve previously helped hire design teams from the ground up for agencies, as well as mentoring numerous designers early in their career helping them with interview preparation, CV reviews, and career progression advice
London based, prefer google meets/hangouts but can be available for face-to-face.
With a background in visual, digital, and service design strategy; I am passionate about taking ideas further and solving business problems. I specialize in customer experience and optimization, understanding user journeys and using data and research to inform decision-making as well as lean UX methodologies to inform the validation process.
I work with clients looking to expand and optimise their business with the help of UX and research, from sectors such as Fintech, Edtech and healthcare to start-ups. I run my own consultancy, helping clients create and implement tailored business strategies.
I believe in approaching a brief in its entirety to achieve a clients’ strategic objectives. From the product architecture, design, user experience, customer journey and decision making process through to how these all work with the business model not forgetting how the product is communicated and promoted in the marketplace.
My experience also includes web content creation & SEO strategy, KPI measurement, and multichannel experience analysis.
A geek at heart, I grew up playing games on a Commodore 64 and remembers Apple Mac’s when they were black and white screens! I’m a lover of technology and passionate about learning and sharing knowledge.
User Experience Insights and research manager with broad experience uncovering insights and applying research methods for global online retailers and start-ups since 2009. Passionate about understanding people’s behaviours, needs and motivations. Demonstrated ability to apply user centered design principles and research to delight and engage with customers. Combined User Experience (UX) optimization and conversion rate optimization (CRO) expertise towards improving business results. Experienced working in interactive development and rapidly changing business environments.
My background includes user research, CX design, IA, project management and strategy, and I’m actively involved in usability international standards.I specialise in Customer-Centric business, Customer Experience strategy, large Customer Experience programmes and improving operational processes to improve Customer Experiences, and these are the areas which I’d be interested in mentoring in. I have an informal style, and am now based in New Zealand, but still available for remote mentoring.
Hi, my name is Stratis! I am a UX strategist based in London. I’ve helped startups, agencies and global enterprises in the US and Europe, design impactful and ethical human-centred products.
Currently I’m leading the UX Design Team at Condé Nast, defining the user experience across their brands which include Vogue, GQ and CN Traveller
In my spare time I teach at UX Academy London and conduct research for All The Humans; figuring out what opportunities new technologies like voice and virtual reality offer us for improving lives.
I live in London Bridge and work in Embankment. Happy to meet face to face around these areas or chat over video calls
Strategist and Researcher of Cognitive Systems / Human Factors Specialist with 9 years of experience in User Research, Strategy and Design Innovation. Experience across multiple platforms of products ranging from safety systems in Healthcare to Consumer Products. Extensive knowledge of cognitive systems human factors principles, usability testing, and design research methodologies with proven record of integration of these skills into the design process. Practices center on establishing clear and concise usability guidelines, POV’s, and recommendations for multiple product portfolios. Human Factors expert in both software & hardware interfaces focusing on an optimised holistic user experience from a tactical and strategic perspective. Vast knowledge of the product development process and the successful integration of human factors, research insights, and usability principles within each critical phase of product development.
I am a senior UX researcher working at a London based consultancy. Experience researching on a range of platforms mobile devices, desktop, TV. Skills are in a variety of methodologies/areas: research, workshops, personas, ethnography, information architecture. Over 5 years of experience in UX.
As a continual learner, mentoring uxers helps me ‘re learn’ my experiences through a new lens, which is why I find it so energising.
Here are recent challenges I ve helped people with:
– communicating ux impact in siloed, hierarchical teams
– transitioning to ux research from an adjacent industry, mid-career
– preparing a ux research portfolio
– creating a culture of feedback in your project or team
– choosing the right qual and quant methods to address a goal
– framing high impact questions and hypothesis
This is very much a snap shot of the areas I’ve covered with mentees, so feel free to reach out if your aims are loosely covered here. Our first call would be used to align on your mentoring goals and we can set up a plan of action from there.
I’ve been practicing UX since 2008 starting off first in academia and HCI and then moving to UX research roles in the corporate world since 2012. I have experience working in UX in 4 countries around the world, mainly client-side, in both the public and private sectors as a permanent employee and also as a contractor. I’ve worked in startups to large global organisations, either as the lone research to part of a team of over a dozen researchers.
My varied experience has given me a deep sense of team dynamics, stakeholder complexities, and creative research methodologies to achieve high-quality work.
I’d be most suitable to mentor someone early in their user research career who is looking to navigate their career path, hone their research skills and develop their teamwork skills.
Based in London but prefer to conduct mentoring virtually via Google hangouts, zoom or Skype
Hey, I am a multi-disciplined professional, with my roots in Library and Information Science, and most recently, a post-graduation in User Experience Design. Travelling overseas and living in multiple countries have helped me to enhance my connection to humans leading to a whole new career path! I am enthusiastic about user-centric design, research, testing and most importantly, connecting the dots to find potential solutions that will add value, to the final user and to the business! I hold a master’s in information science, that provides me with competences to work with information, technology, people, research, innovation, product or services. I am available to collaborate in your journey, within the UX umbrella or with questions related to CV and working and living overseas starting a new career (it can be frightening sometimes!).
Based in Belfast, UK. Available for remote sessions over Facetime, Zoom, Google Meets.
As a product designer with a focus on UX, I’ve had 8+ years experience in helping corporations & startups create user-centered products/ services that have been used by millions of users. I create & iterate design based on user insights and analytic data. Some of the clients I’ve worked for include LBG, Kingfisher, Vision RT, Google, Tesco and a few others.
Based in London. Mainly through email, can do the zoom call occasionally.
