ABOUT

Mona Patel
Founder & Principal UX Strategist, MOTIVATE DESIGN

A natural mentor, Mona has created user experience strategies and in-house usability programs for hundreds of clients through training and consulting. She has innovated new methodologies for evaluating decision making, emotion and persuasion.

With over 10 years experience, Mona has developed an unmatched ability to influence organizations to appreciate and use UX as a competitive differentiator. She is a skilled practitioner in user experience research and design, usability testing, expert reviews and interaction design. Her core expertise lies in public-facing websites applications, intranets, enterprise portals, medical devices, voice systems and consumer products.

Mona teaches at Parsons The New School for Design, educating tomorrow’s designers about the value of good research in cutting edge design. She is also an active committee leader for various conferences such as World Usability Day and Design for Conversion.

Prior to starting Motivate Design, Mona worked as a Vice President at Human Factors International (HFI). There, she consulted and taught for over 100 clients and collaborated with a talented team of UX professionals. Prior to her work at HFI, she was a Research Scientist at American Institutes for Research.

Mona holds an M.S. in Marketing Communications from Boston University and a B.S. in Engineering Psychology from Tufts University.