User experience design can be termed as a process of achieving user satisfaction and loyalty for a product by improving usability and accessibility. There are various elements and disciplines such as Interaction Design, Visual Design, Information Architecture and user research that contributes overall experience delivered to the users.
A good UX designer must have deep knowledge and experience of User Centered Design (UCD) process.
Below are some of the best User Experience profiles to be followed on LinkedIn.
Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). Dr. Nielsen established the “discount usability engineering” movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and has invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds 79 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use. (Credits: NNGroup )
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakobnielsenphd/
Don Norman
Don Norman is Director of The Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego. He is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, IDEO fellow, and former Vice President of Apple. He serves on numerous boards, helping companies make products enjoyable, understandable, and profitable.
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnorman/
Jago Livingstone
A designer that thrives on delivering creative solutions to his clients. Jago specialize in UI & UX, Appdesign, Branding and overall conceptual thinking. Specialties: UI & UX | Digital | Web | Branding | VoiceUX, also co-own a successful online digital magazine called The MixUp.
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagojames/
Kristin Arnold
Leading a global team of 75+ researchers delivering strategy and insights to build experiences forenterprises across the portfolio of G Suite products – including Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive,Hangouts Meet and Chat.
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinarnold/
Josh Payton
A digital product designer with 20 years of experience designing, building and evolving large scale-platforms and services for some of the best companies in the world.
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshpayton/
Russ Wilson
User experience and product executive with 20 years experience in designing and developing successful software applications.
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/russwilson/
Amanda Linden
A product designer with a background in enterprise applications, financial services, and global consumer sites. Love to help simplify the complex, work on big problems, and collaborate with tightly-knit teams. Gravitate toward products that solve important problems. As a manager Amanda believe in recognition, transparency, and iterative learning.
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-linden-99326/
Dave Landis
Dave, delivers on his decades of experience leading fortune 500 companies to brand dominance using User Experience (UX) design and Experienced-Focused Engineering, and disruptive innovations. Dave is a true generalist when it comes to designing “Branded Experiences” he has proven expertise in a balanced blending of these Human Centered Design disciplines:
• Emotional-Driven Design
• Data-Supported Design
• Experience Outcome (XO) Design
• Intuitive Design
• Design Thinking Applied
• Integrated Design
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dlandis/
Shawn Lipstein
A passionate design leader with two decades of experience driving organization-wide product strategy through design excellence. Have deep knowledge in shipping world class products on multiple platforms in the Enterprise and SaaS space, his mission is to solve challenging problems in a way that has a positive impact on people’s lives. Having scaled products and services to millions of customers.
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnlipstein/
Brian Collins
Brian collins have over 20 years experience, with a diverse background of working across mobile, web and TV as well as specializing in multiple disciplines throughout his career, such as graphical user interface design (GUI), user experience (UX), branding, package design, eCommerce, digital marketing, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
LinkedIn Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/briancollins/
