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ShowMeDo Design Your User Experience in 7 Simple Steps by Amir Khella Amir is a user experience designer and startup advisor. Over the past 3 years, he has designed more than 12 startup products, including DocVerse (Acquired by Google), Delve Networks (Acquired by LimeLight networks), TalentSpring (acquired by TalentTech), UStream, blist, and several others. He is also the creator of Keynotopia user interface prototyping libraries for Apple Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint. Prior to his work in user experience, Amir worked as a software engineer, a program manager, and conducted research in human computer interaction and information visualization. Here's what some entrepreneurs who collaborated with Amir say about his work: “Amir is an expert in the area of crafting product UI to be easy to use, easy to understand, and have high conversion rates. - Bryan Starbuck, Founder & CEO, TalentSpring (Acquired by TalentTech) "We hired Amir to create a full Interaction and Graphical design for an application we are launching.