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Mentoring in Design: Meet Design experts from our mentor community

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Femme Palette
Published on
November 27, 2023

Would you like to grow professionally in the field of design by working with a mentor? Our Design mentors help their mentees develop their UX, UI, product, visual, or graphic design careers. They support their mentees in exploring all the possibilities working in design has to offer.

With a global mentor community from different backgrounds, our mentors have different experiences to share with their mentees, making every mentoring experience unique. To give you a glimpse of our diverse mentor community, we introduce to you some of our mentors in the field of design.

Klára Scholleová

Senior UX Designer

Oracle

Prague, Czechia

Klára is a designer who loves simplicity, elegance, and purpose. She believes in the essence is solving the right problems. She is interested in UX & UI, human-centered design, technology and how it affects us. She is also a Figma enthusiast and nerd. Apart from design, she has a background in coding and music. She also loves photography and enjoys good food and beer.

Matt Stevenson

Hands-on Design Leader

London, England

For 15 years, Matt has been a creative leader passionate about driving tangible value through validated problem solving and a proven track record of building teams, designing great products, brands and communications that help audiences and grow businesses.

Victor Zaud

Senior Director of Product Design

Disney Streaming

California, United States

A veteran leader working at the intersection of business, technology and design, Vic brings big-picture strategic thinking and positivity to the teams he leads now at Disney - creating the next-generation streaming and entertainment systems that millions of consumers use daily.  Educated originally at ArtCenter in Los Angeles and by his early tenure at Apple in the original creative group where both long-standing brands and software interface design were born, he learned that to create something truly great, testing is important to validate one's ideas and vision but vision and passion drives them. 

Arantxa Mendoza Bárbara

Global Digital Experience Design Team Leader 

IKEA Group

Malmö, Sweden

Arantxa is a UX Strategist with more than ten years of experience in the digital industry. Starting as a Web designer in 2010 and then evolving and specialising in User Experience, she became passionate about finding the root problems, detangling complex challenges, and making users part of the process to create solutions that best suit their needs. After working in tech, banking/fin-tech, video games, retail, and e-commerce companies, she is now certified in User Experience by the Nielsen Norman Group (Specialised in UX Management). She has specialisations in Design Thinking and Service Design from The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and certification in UX Management endorsed by the Interaction Design Foundation. 

Maggie Jandova

UX UI Designer 

Swat.io

Porto, Portugal

Maggie is a UX UI Designer from Prague, who now lives and works remotely from Porto. She is passionate about solving problems, research, and finding the sweet spot between user and business needs. Working in a fast-paced startup environment since the beginning, she is all about continuous growth, learning from failures, and moving fast to deliver impactful outcomes.

Garrett Godsey

Lead Product Designer & Director

Studio Godsey

United States

From San Francisco, Garrett worked mostly in health tech at Fitbit and agencies such as fuseproject. As a lead UX designer and direction for fast-moving product teams in Mobile, Web, and IoT, he decided to travel and work remotely as a freelancer in 2018 and has been doing so ever since!  

Adriána Rybárová

Senior Product Designer

Microsoft

Prague, Czechia

Adriána is a senior product/UX designer with experience working in large corporate companies, startups, and agencies. On top of her regular design stuff, she also loves design ops and UX writing. She is currently working in the Microsoft Nonprofit Cloud.

Brooke Altman

Product Manager

Bumble

London, England

Brooke is a Senior Product Designer at Bumble. She is an American living in London, who spent most of her career working with consumer brands across the food and spirits, health and fitness industries. She is a self-taught designer looking to help more junior women hone their craft or break into the industry.

Maria Herrera

Head of Product Design 

Revolut

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Mafer studied Digital Design in Vancouver, Canada. She started her professional career in advertising, working on digital campaigns as a designer and strategist, later moving on to continue her education, specialising in UX design and digital marketing. She worked in Canada for six years as a designer and project manager in various sectors like oil and gas, education and video games. After starting her career with Citi Ban as a design manager, she now works at Revolut as Head of Design, managing a team of 50+ designers, making sure everyone has the right processes and skills to thrive and grow their careers. 

Audrey Charneus

Product Designer

California, United States

Audrey is a former therapist, who now works as a product designer for healthcare-tech companies. At the heart of her passion for UX design and her clinical/research work in psychology lies a common underlying goal of improving individuals’ well-being.

Are you looking for ways to advance in your design career? Check out our Design Mentoring Program and get matched with your personal mentor from Femme Palette’s global community of professionals.

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