Authors

DesignWhine, a premier destination for UX professionals, offers a wealth of articles, guides, resources, and a monthly magazine tailored to empower UX designers in their professional journey. Our platform is accessed by over 9,000 UX professionals worldwide.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief at DesignWhine Magazine, Rajat believes that the UI and UX community is underrepresented. He believes that every designer has a story of struggle, hope, and success that needs to be heard and celebrated.

DesignWhine's co-founder, Barkha is an avid reader by the night. Growing up, she wanted to be an astronomer and is still starry-eyed when she looks up at the night sky.

A Product Designer, Consultant and Educator, Rupashree believes happiness is a problem and the more complex it is, the more fun it becomes. With a dream of creating an impact in the world of digital experiences, she loves her running shoes, brush strokes, books and music.

"What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better."
- Norwegian Woods

Priyal reads to fill her imagination, writes to bring that imagination down on paper and designs in the hope that someday her imaginations can become reality. Right now she's pursuing journalism and seeking to cover paramount news in the world of UX.

As a design journalist at DesignWhine, she gets to do what she loves while learning more every day.

Juyeon Park is a Product Designer with over 6 years of experience in South Korea's top startups. She holds a bachelor's in Digital Media Design and a master's in Interaction Design from Hongik University. Park specializes in data-informed design and research across commerce, edutech, social dating, and healthcare sectors, mentoring junior designers. Her blend of academic knowledge and practical experience showcases her capabilities in the digital product design field.

Harikrishna Kundariya is a marketer, developer, and expert in IoT, Cloud, and AWS. He is the co-founder and Director of eSparkBiz Technologies. With over 12 years of experience, he specializes in providing digital solutions for startups, focusing on IoT and SaaS applications.

A Product Designer, Artist, and Musician, with a history in Fine Arts and Sculpture, Jenny Purcell dreams of making a difference. Believing that Design, Art, and Expression make the world a better place, and allow the world's worth of personalities to shine through.

A UX designer with a mission to create solutions that enhance the human experience in an inclusive way, Ahmed Ayoub leverages his past experiences in biomedical engineering, clinical research, and education to explore the technical and analytical aspects of designing.

Joey Kilrain is an end-to-end designer and a proven leader. His experience covers leading projects from ideation, through research and execution. Joey has worked on a series of enterprise platforms, and blends experience research with his visual style to solve problems.

Roxanne is a seasoned UX Researcher with a passion for crafting intuitive and user-centric experiences. With a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of user behavior, she excels in transforming complex ideas into elegant and effective digital solutions.

Through her blog, The Roxanne Perspective, Roxanne shares her insights on the latest UX trends, research methodologies, and design practices. She is an avid proponent of user-centered design and strives to create products and services that seamlessly integrate into people's lives.

Angel Gizwa is a UX lead and Product Manager at YUX.design

A former marine biologist turned UX designer who has worked at two award-winning agencies, Sam is also a career coach who helps new UX designers land their first roles, and a published author on the UX Collective Blog on Medium.

Arshla is an Experience Designer and a pen-paper artist since childhood. A computer engineer who finally bounced back to the creative field after a 5-year stint at an engineering job, she loves experimenting with art and keeps herself lively through the wisdom that books impart.

A self educated visual designer from Ukraine and the author of the cover story of this issue of DesignWhine, Sergiy Mekro, started as a freelancer in 2008. He has founded a boutique digital agency and is also an art director.

Trey Hahn, founder of Bicycle User Experience (BUX) , integrates everyday people’s experiences into bicycle infrastructure planning and design, helping urban mobility professionals consider diverse street users. With an interdisciplinary background, he has managed projects for streetmix.net and worked with a startup, city agency, and environmental justice nonprofit in New York City. In addition to BUX, he conducts research and manages online courses at the Urban Cycling Institute.

Charchit is a beginner in UI/UX. With more than 5 years of design experience, he has worked on several design projects. He's a reader, traveler, and a design writer. He defines design as a way of finding a solution of a particular problem. And he longs to get paid for just his thoughts!

A UX Lead at Santander Global Tech, Manuel is also a lasagna lover and believes in empathizing, thinking, prototyping and designing as the way to innovation.

Passionate about learning and solving user problems, Charin Shah is a UX designer at Lollypop Design Studio in Mumbai, India. Charin is also the co-founder at Hygrownics, a Health food shop, catering to chemical-free and nourishing produce

CEO and Creative Director at HYPE4, Mike also teaches design at SWPS University in Poland, speaks at design conferences, surfs (Baltic sea can be quite fun) and skates.

UX Designer, and self-published sci-fi author, Damien combines design, writing, and experimentation to explore ways to focus more design thinking on causes that really matter. He dreams of a future with a perfect balance of nature, robots, books and coffee.

Myrofora is a visual artist trying to develop her own style, taking inspiration from talented people around while listening to music. Although she studied computer science, she was always drawn to creative arts and got a chance to work on these while studying Communication Design.