Rod Rakic

Growing @openairplane Professional pilot, husband, father, nerd. Passionate about user experience + aviation. Find me on a computer, or in a cockpit.
http://blog.aopa.org/opinionleaders/category/authors/rod-rakic/

Zach Reed

Blue Tide Founder // @parkwhiz Front-End // Love a good API // Design // JS // CSS // UI/UX // Optimism // SharkWeek // From Indianapolis, IN
http://blog.iamzachreed.com/

Matt Williams

Designer and Developer based in Chicago

Joey Kirk

Design Director of Bloc.io, Lead Designer for High Gear Media. Founder of Made by Munsters.

Suzanne H. EL-Moursi

    Suzanne is a trained Interaction Designer who has over 15 years as a practioner applying the methodology of Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design to various projects across industries in healthcare, financial services, automotive, telecommunicatio

Shahed Khan

Product Designer @weebly. Formerly at @backplane and @viatask.

Jason Kunesh

Founded @public-good-software, Director of UX & Product @obama-for-america, founding team @the-point, early UXer @orbitz, founder @fuzzy-math.

Steven Walker

Designer, developer, builder, entrepreneur, mentor. First designer at @groupon. Currently Head of Platform Experience @quirky

Jessica Sheft-Ason

IT Consultant, Studied Economics @university-of-chicago and investor with @kewpie-associates.

Jeffrey Kalmikoff

Designer. Husband. Friend to startups. Maker of things. Avid fan: scary movies, loud music. Work: CXO @betable. Past: @threadless, @digg, @simplegeo.
http://www.callmejeffrey.com

Kris Davis

MS in Product Design & Development Management @northwestern-university. Design, product, research and business focus.

Jared Fanning

Creative Director at Visually; freelance designer

Ryan Scherf

Product Designer @quirky. Co-founder of Paid, an iPhone app to manage your Stripe account. Formerly of @groupon

Angie Taormina

Creative Director at @coupontrade

Judd Morgenstern

Business Designer. Previously UX Designer + Innovation Strategist. Former @adaptive-path + @nike consultant.

Patrick Algrim

Currently: Co-founder at digit.co. Previously: MyZeus acquired by Groupon, 2011.
http://patrickalgrim.me

Daniel Zarick

Formerly product at Twilio. Currently working on my own projects.
http://future-bits.com

George Monical

Investor CEO of MiGym: Experience in successful startups including Betfair and The Coupons App & corporate experience at US Cellular and Allstate; Kellogg MBA

David Kadavy

Author of Design for Hackers (Debuted at #18 on @amazon) Mentor at 500 Startups. Changing the way you see design.

Frank V. Pinto

Founder @monthlys-1, @mantra-labs-2 • Worked at @lightbank, @benchprep

Hank Ostholthoff

My mom told me work hard, be kind to people, and success will follow. Co-Founder of @freebie Family & friends first kinda guy. Growth hacker / biz builder

Kyle Hanson

Developed parallel backtesting software for stock trading firm. Haskell lover. Python guru. Strong web development background. Lead developer on many projects.

Aaron Frazin

Founder and CEO @charlie-app a @dreamit-ventures backed company. Kauffman Global Scholar 2012 @ewing-marion-kauffman-foundation

Jordan Feldstein

Founder @refstop-com (sold 2007), Currently @thepizzabutton and @sway-fm • Worked at @isocket • Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington

Sal Cilella

Techstars mentor, start-up advisor. Currently @razorfish. Acquity Group and gravitytank alum. Experience design, mobile, omni-channel focus.

Dan Nelson

Dan is a designer and developer, specializing in experience and interface design and front-end development.

Ezekiel Binion

Experience Manager for Manifest Digital; Strategy & Experience Advisor for Project Travel; BFA in Graphic design with a strong development background.

Jonathan Baran

Co-founder and CEO of heathfinch.
http://blog.healthfinch.com

Tim Skaggs

Develop and design apps. Dev/Design for @steamboat-labs-1 and @Brewerbox. Worked on @kloudless @deskhero

Teddy Zmrhal

Entrepreneur, Designer, Teacher and Director at IDEO

Cece Yu

UI at @alltuition and brilliant.org. Contributed to @food-genius and @betterfly. UChicago economics grad. Loves product, IxD, and brands that span the digital and the physical.

Sam Rosen

Jesse Pinho

CIO & co-founder at @everpurse; creator of @nomorecreeps.com and occasional freelancer.
http://jessepinho.com

Jason Block

Master's HCI student at Carnegie Mellon, with B.S. in Mechanical Engineering/Robotics. Worked as a generalist product designer/developer at Picplum.

John Pitocco

Technology Entrepreneur – Create, Design, Develop, Innovate

Jonathan Ozeran

Product designer, team builder & coder getting into some new trouble. Advisor to Chicago & Detroit startups. #GoWings #GoBlue #ChicagoStartups

Monthlys

Founder @monthlys-1, @mantra-1 • Worked at @benchprep, @manifest-digital - UX expert with front-end and back-end chops. 14 years in industry, know how to market.

Justin Peddycoart

Entrepreneur, User-Experience Evangelist, Sense-Maker, Founder of Cicada Design Co. (2007), CrinklePaw Pet Innovations (2009).

Sean Donohue

Designer/art director in Chicago with 15+ years digital/interactive. Most recently Creative Director at Threadless, previously at BBDO, Goodby, Arc, and HUGE.

Aaron U. Salmon

A jovial lad & professional fellow. Eau Claire native, Dad, Design Director, UI/UX #OFATech, community organizer, civic geek, placemaker & cyclist.

Max Talbot-Minkin

VP of Strategy and Design, TodayTix. Designer, strategist, tech nerd, MBA. Love building companies. Columbia University and IIT Institute of Design grad.

Rob Walsh

Co-Founder of @scholastica. Academic publishing experience at Callaloo (JHU Press). Designed at many Chicago software companies.
http://www.robwalshonline.com/blog/

James Blacher

Versatile front-end designer/developer with experience across multiple fields of design.

Robb Beal

Award-winning software product exec with start-up DNA. Worked for Laszlo Systems (General Catalyst Partners) and LucidEra (Benchmark) and have an exit to Sun (Karelia).

Darren Marshall

Co-founder @Doejo, Digital Agency of the year 2012, Advisor,
http://mapofthedead.com

Neil Gupta

Founder @tabule • Developer & aspiring UX Designer • Studied CS + Psych + Business, graduated cum laude @illinois-institute-of-technology
http://metamorphium.com

Erik Peterson

Technical Guy with a Designer's Eye

Jordan Fulghum

Product Designer, formerly of Groupon, Scrapblog. Creator of Vidless. Focused on UX, design, front-end.

Isaiah Andrew

Co-Founding partner of M+I Creative, and CitizenMade. I'm also a partner at TalkSession and I provide consulting services in UX Design and Digital Strategy.
http://dynasteeinc.com

Phil Dziedzic

MS Engineering Design from Northwestern, led NU Solar Car Team, 1st campus solar installation. Worked at GM & Northrop. Founded 1st tech startup in class at NU.

Scott Gosnell

CEO at Windcastle Venture Consulting, Visiting Instructor of Economics at Kenyon College

A

Entrepreneur. Hacker. Founder. Hipster. IU Kelley School of Business.

BeiBei Que

Chief Legal Rebel • Founder @attorneyfee • Bar Association President • Relentless Hustler

Sean Johnson

Product Development Executive, Partner at Digital Intent

William Hart

Design engineer currently working at @spark • Cook Engineering Design Fellow, B.E. Mechanical Engineering (2012) at @dartmouth-college College

Geremy Good

Interaction designer for the noun project. Thinker at Simple.Honest.Work. Bassist for Glittermouse. Making for humanity.

Kevin Yun

Founded @fitsby, Founded @designation
http://blog.kevinyun.co

Jacqueline Matuszak

Worked at @walls-360

Michael Mercier

CEO & Co-Founder @mercier-jones. Strong background in engineering and product design and development (Insitu-Boeing, Radio Flyer, Fellowes).• Studied at @virginia-commonwealth-university

Travis Lee

IDEO Design Lead for Digital + Physical products and services. Mentor at Excelerate.

David Rossman

Senior UI Designer, 8 yrs of design exp., background in advertising, blend of product & advertising experience, passionate about building products and teams.

Won You

Design Director. Unrepentant Internet addict and information junkie.

Dennis Zhao

UChicago undergrad, founded 2 companies (one seeded, one sold), lots of startup work experience, looking for PM/Data/Design role this summer

Sergey Zinin

Studied at @wheaton-college

Nguyen Nguyen

Founding principal of N2TV Studio, LLC Architecture and Design firm.

Nicholas Evans

Director of UX @ Reverb.com
http://nicholasevans.org

Kenton Hankins

Front-End/ UX Ninja, study javascript like its my job

Avani Miriyala

COO of MikiYaka, worked at Google and Orbitz, Design Freelancer for Hoodle Inc., Pivot Media, LLC., Sumpura, Inc., Gyantra, Inc., and Nuggets by Gyantra.
http://blog.mikiyaka.com

Samuel Solomon

Founder & Host @signal-tower. Interactive Producer @red-square-agency. Former marketer at @drchrono and @crowdfunder-com. Graduate from @the-starter-league.

Ling Wang

Awesome iOS developer.

Gregg Lavine

Founder @p360 • Worked at @vmware, @partners-simons • Studied at @union-college

Chris Peterson

Front-End Developer
http://starterleague.chrismpeterson.com/

Sam Toizer

Northwestern CS, interested in a full-time position with a combination of front-end development and UI/UX design work.

Roni Tehori

Worked at @cisco, @sentictechnologies • Studied at @hebrew-university-of-jerusalem

Luke Geiger

Founder @6th-man-apps • Worked at @upto, @grand-circus • Studied at @university Of Michigan

Bruce Ackerman

Founder Printavo [Screen-printing shop management software] • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign

Francesco Pinto

Hybrid cross-platform mobile first engineer - specialize in creating hardware accelerated JS apps - one code base, all platforms - Yo, Bower, JS, Node, Ruby

Jiba Anderson

Founder Griot Enterprises • Worked at @draftfcb, @adobe • Studied at @UMich, @School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Jason Beckman

Brown University Grad; Headed Brown Entrepreneurship Program; Performance Poet; Lover of Ideas; Wanderer of Words and Worlds
http://hamadachronicles.wordpress.com/

Lisa Ghisolf

Long-time collaborator on multiple projects. Design, strategic input, developing sites & branding from start to finish.

Case Morton

Marketing Associate at @dealsgoround-1, Podcaster at @InsightIntell, Post Rock enthusiast, Aspiring Designer... Oh yeah & I have rocking fiance @LindsayONeal

Robin Antonick

Conceived & developed first 7 years of John Madden Football, participated in launching startups thru IPO, Harvard Masters in Ops&Mgmt - disruptive technology.

Kunal Bhat

Interaction designer and front-end developer, CS background. Start-up enthusiast. STEM for girls advocate. Worked at dscout, Gravitytank, and VSA Partners.

Shawna Baskin

Shawna is an experienced consumer insights analyst with a proven track record of delivering actionable data driven insights through primary market research data. She is currently pursuing her master’s at Northwestern University with a focus on statistica
http://packagedesign.tumblr.com/

Matthew Copeland

Founder at Packanimal Creative. UX IA UI
http://matthewcopeland.me

Michael Thies

UI/UX Designer + FED.

Chris Cimino

Founder @coursecloud-1 • Studied at @northwestern-university, University of Notre Dame

Tyler Mikev

Mobile designer and developer with strong foundation in native iOS apps; Lead dev/designer for PocketCab.

Caroline Chen

Creative and social strategist in advertising. Writer, art director, design director in past lives at agencies and startups. Available for freelance.

Tana Green

Architecture & Interaction Design. Job Captain for two National museum exhibitions. Owner of three companies and a miniature schnauzer.
http://www.TanaGreen.com

Makoto R. Kern

Consultant in the world of Web and Mobile Design - User Experience, Usability, HCI, Information Architecture, SEO, Web and Mobile app programming, Social Media

Christian Bundy

Co-Founder @shopgab • Worked at @sprint, @pureadds

Claudine Tambuatco

Active in a broad range of activities in the Chicago area, Claudine Tambuatco is particularly well known in philanthropic circles.
http://claudinetambuatco.org/

Ru Ge

Master of design from top art school. Mobile designer, Built 4 apps (2 iOS, 1 Android, 1 Chrome)

Dominic Gelfuso

Designer, engineer, scientist and entrepreneur. Taught seniors as a freshman, made LEDs which emit sunlight, and am Fellow at VC firm. Inventor to a good home.

Karen Fisher

Worked at @amc-networks, @u-s-ambassador • Studied at @northwestern-university, Trinity

Emma Zimmerman

Founding Member at @every-last-morsel, Worked for @happyfantickets • Studied at @depaul-university

Jason Bowman

User Experience Craft-titioner

Masha Safina

@carbonmade @magnum-ci @instafeed; MS @UIUC; PhD @university-of-illinois-chicago and so on

Josh Bronstein

Ben Legman

I'm helping build a great community at G2 Crowd

Ryan Lopez

Owner of Catalyses LLC built from the brand Aspire Technologies. Please take a look at my personal profile and the new website. An Avid Domain Trader and Business Brain-stormer ThinkBank & ThinkTank Member Looking for Mentors and Possible Partners/Inve

Naa Marteki Reed

UPenn grad, web product designer. I create great web experiences and I make good web experiences better.

Pat Hogan

Worked at @mit-media-lab, @bytemobile, @citrix-systems

Kathleen Virginia Page

John Francis

Intuitive multi-platform product builder. Information consumer. Startup junky. Interactive Art Director and UI/UXer for mobile at Draftfcb Chicago.

Omair Mirza

Founder and CEO @fitcline • College student • Tech and fitness enthusiast. • Self-taught; web developer and graphic designer.

Branson Pierce

Worked at @built-in-chicago, @belly • Studied at @abilene-christian-university
http://www.bodyshopbids.com

Alex Hoopingarner

@intel Engineer; Tenacious Technologist;

David J. Bermejo

Good business needs good marketing. Good design is good marketing. MIT grad turned UX/Product Designer - translating user needs into useful & valuable products.

David Gjeldum

Worked at @active-mind-technology, @elevate-studios