Alex Baldwin

I'm a designer at thoughtbot in San Francisco. Previously with 500 Startups, Techstars, and Console.fm. I write and tweet.
Not related to Alec Baldwin.

Amy Thibodeau

I'm a writer and content strategist at Facebook where I focus on making interfaces for businesses easier to use and jargon-free. In my spare time, I dabble in photography, occasionally write about language for The Guardian, and collect ephemera on my blog. Previously, I travelled around the world working on Contentini, a boutique web agency I co-founded.

Andy Hagerman

I'm a co-founder at The Design Gym, based in NYC. We teach a design based methodology for creative problem solving, and put real people's needs at the center of new businesses, services, and products. You can find me tweeting here and writing here.

Brent Jackson

Brian Benitez

I'm Partner & Creative Director at Collective Ray with a passion for both technology and simplicity. Currently living and working in San Francisco, CA. Previously: Disqus, Sourcebits, and Mutual Mobile. Check out some of my recent work on Dribbble.

Chad Mazzola

I'm Product Design Lead at Klarna in Stockholm, Sweden where I design better ways to pay for things online. I'd love to hear from you via twitter or email.

Chris Lee

I'm an interaction designer and developer finishing up studies at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the Google Chrome design team. Previously, I've worked at Mozilla and LearnBoost, both pushing pixels and writing code. I think technology should help regular people do meaningful things.

Dan Zambonini

I'm a web app designer and developer from Wales, living in Silicon Valley. I co-founded a multi-million dollar web agency and a couple of successful products, and wrote a pretty big book on Web App Success. I tweet intermittently.

David Kadavy

I'm author of the book Design for Hackers, which debuted at #18 on Amazon. I travel the world speaking about design and entrepreneurship and I write at kadavy.net, for the Design for Hackers newsletter, and in short-form at @kadavy. Previously I freelanced for clients such as oDesk, PBworks, and UserVoice, and founded the design departments at a couple of Silicon Valley startups.

Enrique Allen

I'm the co-director of the Designer Fund. Previously I was a designer at venture capital funds including 500 Startups, Facebook’s fbFund & Venrock. As a Bay Area Native and Stanford University alum, I continue to teach at the Stanford d.school.

Grace Ng

I'm co-founder and design lead at Lean Startup Machine and creator of Validation Board. I'm also Lean UX coach for The White House and Wharton UPenn. I fight for the users, push pixels, tweet and write code. See me speak at the upcoming LeanUX Conference.

Ian Storm taylor

I'm a designer+developer, and a co-founder of Segment.io, where I spend as much time writing Javascript as messing around in Photoshop. It's all just systems design, really. I write, tweet and dribbble.

Ian Hirschfeld

I like to create. Applications, websites, videos, businesses, you name it. Currently, I'm living in San Francisco, CA and coding at Mightybell. Previously, I worked on Retina Mac Apps and Isobar.

Jared Erondu

I'm a writer and designer from Brooklyn, living in Baltimore. I'm the co-founder of The Industry (a design publication) and Evomail (an iPad email app). I advise companies here and there. In the past I've worked with TED and Treehouse to promote creativity.

Jeff Broderick

Speaker & Visual/UI Designer living in beautiful San Francisco, California. Partner at Collective Ray. Working on Luxogram & Loggg. Creator of 4cast.me, StratusApp, iOS Settings Shortcuts & NoMoreBanding.com.

Joanne Chang

I'm a co-founder and design lead at PicCollage. It is a fun and easy way to create collages on your mobile devices. I love colors and patterns and the process of bringing ideas to life. You can find me on Twitter.

Joe Robinson

I'm a product designer & builder currently working on the discovery team at Square. We focus on helping buyers discover sellers and providing useful analytics to both. I also run Designers + Geeks, a fun community of artists, designers and technologists in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. You can find me on Twitter.

Jon Gold

I design & build digital products. I was trained in print design & typography by old Swiss guys with white beards, but these days I mainly work with startups in London and San Francisco like Makeshift Prismatic and The Amazings.

Jonno Riekwel

I am a cofounder at Awkward, where I design and build simple and beautiful products. When I'm not adjusting pixels and tweeting cool stuff I find, I can be found playing battlefield or changing dirty diapers in my living room.

Joseph Huang

I'm the Founding Designer of Swell, a delightful way to discover podcasts. Previously I designed Kingdoms of Camelot, the #1 Top Grossing App of 2012 on the Apple App Store and worked at BlackBerry and Qualcomm. I like making things, technology and the great outdoors.

Josh Long

I'm a self-taught Designer & Writer. I spent 12 years as a business designer but now spend my days doing what I love best: coding, writing and designing. I'm currently the Editor at Treehouse, Co-Founder of Execute Ventures, Owner of Jenius Factory, and Author of Execute. I also co-host the Happy Monday Podcast with Sarah Parmenter.

Julie Ann Horvath

I'm a designer and frontend developer at GitHub. I like to think of myself as an open source advocate with a big heart for making mockups in markup. I spend a lot of my time speaking at conferences and volunteering to teach (more) women to code.

Karolina Szczur

I'm a designer and developer working for Nodejitsu. Previously helped numerous startups such as XHTMLized, Future Simple or AdTaily. I discovered a passion for teaching by speaking at conferences along with editing and writing for Smashing Magazine. I also ramble and shoot.

Kate Rutter

I'm a maker+designer who loves stickynotes, sketching and startups. At LUXr, I get to meet incredible entrepreneurs and help them design great customer experiences. I've worked at places like Adaptive Path and The Crucible. You can find me on Twitter.

Kerem Suer

I'm a designer of digital products in my late 20’s who is little too into simplicity and pixel-perfection. I studied interactive visual imaging and photography in Missouri, and somehow ended up in foggy San Francisco designing things with unbelievably talented teams such as Fitbit, Pinterest, Zendesk, and One Kings Lane.

Kevin Xu

I'm a designer hacker studying at Stanford University working on enabling more people to design and code. I love food, frontend wizardry, and pulling all-nighters on side projects like Brandseen and XKCDGraphs.

Kyle Wild

I grew up in rural southern Illinois, which is to say, I grew up on the internet. I've been writing code since middle school and hacking data since I joined the Google Analytics team right out of college. After that, I helped build three startups in the disparate realms of social networks, ecommerce, and online gaming, but found striking similarities in terms of what sorts of analytics infrastructure we needed. We started Keen IO in 2012 to distill those principles into a developer API, once and for all.

Kyle Bragger

I'm an engineer and product designer currently building products like Thinglist at Elepath, a software studio in San Francisco. Before that, I founded and later sold the creative community, Forrst. You should follow me on Twitter.

Larry Buchanan

I'm a freelance illustrator, designer and aspiring coder living in Brooklyn. I've done work for ESPN, The Onion, Mashable and others. I write for McSweeney's and the Society for News Design. I've helped build sites to shame people into voting and to keep track of your members of congress.

Laura Bohill

I'm a freelance designer and illustrator based between Durham (UK) and NYC, where I work alongside the amazing people at Studiomates. I like to travel, and usually work as I go. Having fun is my number one favourite thing.

Lise Statelman

I'm the Visual/UI Designer for Kloudless in beautiful Berkeley, and an east coast transplant who has fallen in love with San Francisco—a topic I tweet about. I strive for user-friendliness in my work and enjoy both sharing and expanding my knowledge of design. Find my latest stuff on dribbble!

Luke Beard

I'm a designer & frontend developer. I've been helping startups for the last two years such as Zerply, WillCall, Buffer and Hipstamatic. Some of my personal projects included Skimn for iPad and A Lyric a Day.

Marc Edwards

I’m the founder of Bjango, an indie Mac and iOS developer. I’m also a designer. I co-host a podcast called Iterate with Rene Ritchie and Seth Clifford. Sometimes I write articles about design for Bjango’s website. I occasionally write for Smashing Magazine and speak at conferences.

Michelle Wetzler

I'm a Director and Data Engineer at Keen IO. I do analytics consulting, teach classes, help customers, and provide analytics mentorship. I also blog about analytics and work life.

Moiz Syed

I'm a designer at Hipmunk. Previously, I was pushing pixels and disturbing the peace at Drawbridge, Citrix Systems and IBM Interactive. On my weekends, I try to write code to justify the three semesters of computer science I once did. I grew up in Toronto where I went to design school at York University. You can see some of my really old work here or find me on twitter.

Nathan Manousos

I'm an independent developer, designer and juggler who is nuts about great products. I'm the founder of Flinto, creator of ImageSnap and an instructor at General Assembly. Previously I was the designer of Echofon and a UI developer at Blurb.

P.J. Onori

I'm a design technologist living in San Francisco. I have worked for companies such as Adaptive Path, Method and Current TV and worked with clients including the United Nations, Samsung, Adobe, TED.com and Foodspotting. I am a long-time supporter of open source and has several of his own including Frank, Iconic and Cue. Follow me on Twitter.

Pasquale D'Silva

Patrick Algrim

I'm a Product Designer living in San Francisco & Chicago. I created a design studio in 2007 that worked directly with the founders of Threadless, Fast Company and Boxee to create products. In 2010 I left the studio and started MyZeus, a small consumer internet product focused on solving problems around movie viewing experiences online. MyZeus was acquired by Groupon in 2012. Working on small menswear hard goods line named Jon Barley and Qio.me in 2013. Stay up to date on my projects through Twitter.

Sacha Greif

I'm a product designer living in Osaka, Japan. I split my time between working on my own projects (such as Folyo, Telescope, and Sidebar) and consulting for clients all over the world, including companies such as Hipmunk, RubyMotion, and Codecademy.

Shaun Moynihan

Travis Silverman

Having roots in traditional art, I jumped into the world of design as an undergrad at RIT. I've honed my understanding of UX and UI at places like Yahoo! and DeviantART. Now, as an alumni of TechStars Cloud, I'm continuing to learn and grow as Director of UX & UI at Graphicly. I post photos of life in Colorado and occasionally shots of what I'm creating.

Visual Idiot

I’m an all-round web guy (part designer, part developer), chronic sentence shortener, perpetual builder.

Wells Riley

I'm an interaction designer living in Silicon Valley, working at Kicksend. I love creating clean and understandable user interfaces for web and mobile products. Creator of Startups, this is how design works and Retina Mac Apps.

Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess leads an international user experience consultancy called Vicarious Partners and is the author of the popular blog Pleasure and Pain. Her life’s mission is to put humanity back into business.