I've had the great privilege of spending the last 3 years working with Raya on our IBM team translating Industries stakeholder marketing content into compelling page layouts for our users.

Her work is characterized in how she built stakeholder trust in her digital/web user experience insights and deliverables, and her willingness to work directly and closely with them to arrive at finalized page layouts. She is a common fixture on early strategy and kickoff calls for new projects so that she can share her insights at the outset.

She commonly has had to work within the confines of CMS templates, but always demonstrated a determination to try to stretch them to find the best options of presenting content. She often offered multiple page layout options that might fulfill stakeholder needs in different ways, providing them with new ideas and ways of looking at their content. And she did so with a speed that surprised me. This process included working with designers and developers to perform all the necessary investigation and testing of what was possible.

In recent months, she's spent a good amount of her time engaged in designing and redesigning pages for A/B testing and working with other design and testing teams to help the stakeholders in one of their key goals of finding the best ways to align the layout of their top of funnel industry content with their strategy. This has been a long, challenging process that she has remained dedicated to following through with.

I am very confident that any team would benefit from her commitment, demeanor, and dedication to achieving a positive end result.

I had the pleasure to work with Raya on large and high-priority initiative’s at IBM. She has that “roll up your sleeves” mentality, the perfect design eye and that rare UX/UI hybrid. She produces purposeful, pleasing deliverables with a clear understanding of the context and use case. Most importantly she follows her gut about an experience or design to provide rationale to how it can be better, or how she can see that there are concerns about XYZ. Her talents and expertise are an indispensable asset to any team and I consider myself super lucky to have worked with her.

Raya and I have been working together on the IBM Industries web team for two years. Raya's web page designs are engaging and smart. She is always willing to help and looking for ways to improve existing pages while incorporating the latest techniques and research into them. Her knowledge is vast and she is a pleasure to work with!

I had the great opportunity to be working together with Raya on IBM ’s industry project for several years now and she has been receiving great results working in a collaboration with the team, designers, developers, coders, and managers as well. Raya is a person of high personal integrity. She is highly committed to her work. One can count on her to act openly with honesty and resolves conflicts efficiently. She is a professional who is focused on results. She faces new challenges with high efficiency and completes them with merit.

Raya has a great instincts, a strong sense of style and understands how to create designs that are both highly engaging and intuitively usable. She is a team player with excellent communication skills, and can quickly turn around comps to address complex business requirements. Raya is a true multimedia artist who understands the nuances of designing for and outputting to different media types, whether it's print, web, mobile or interactive.

I have had the honor to witness Raya's ability to artistically balance great color and layout choices with the ability to design user experiences based on her talent for understanding what people want and need. When others ask me about Raya, the first thing that comes mind is her imagination, because she is not just a great designer, but an inspiring artist as well. It is an honor to work with her, so if you are considering Raya for a design project, hiring her would be a smart choice. Raya's ability to take ideas from concept to reality is truly remarkable.

I hired Raya to create an online feature for families that visit The Jewish Museum's website. This project was inspired by a children's book the Museum had already produced many years ago.

Raya excelled with her creativity, programming, design, illustration, and conceptual ideas...everyone was thrilled by the result including the entire Education department, Deputy Directors, and Director of the Museum. She went above and beyond with what we thought possible for this online feature and provided us with a wonderful family-friendly resource that has already been enjoyed by many visitors to our site. Raya is the consumate professional and was an absolute pleasure to work with. She is dedicated to her work and demonstrates that passion in everything she does. I could not think of a better match for a web design project - Raya delivers!

I engaged Raya to create Product Tours in Flash, both for LivePerson and BurlingtonEnglish. They are fantastic! Thanks to her creativity, complex technical concepts are easily understandable. The LivePerson tours saved pre-sales team members hours of phone calls ... they just simply pointed prospects to the movies. She also created one for BurlingtonEnglish that is used in trade shows, sales calls, online marketing. Raya is a creative powerhouse!

I worked with Raya Dukhan on multiple projects at LivePerson. Raya demonstrated extraordinary skills as a Creative Design Director and was a pleasure to work with. She is knowledgeable, resourceful and a hard worker. She provided the added value that was needed to make the projects successful.

Raya is a committed, detailed oriented and overall delightful co-worker and business partner. Her creativity, and overall artistic abilities, lead to the development of multiple, customized demonstrations and presentation materials that were noted by customers as being a key differentiator during the sales process. In one instance, Raya created a demonstration that was so compelling that it opened the door for direct access to the CEO of a top 50 web site as ranked by Internet Retailer. I highly recommend Raya to anyone in search of a strong, high skilled and genuinely personable contributor.

"Raya was a key team member that always went above and beyond on all projects she worked on. Her design skills are amazing and she is a truly creative person. All of the projects that Raya worked on would not have had such a wonderful out come if she was not involved. I was very fortunate to work with Raya and highly recommend her.

"Raya is on-time, on-budget and on the mark. She is terrific at big ideas with quick turn around. I love working with Raya and she is stellar at big creative artsy projects as well as on-brand and large corporate jobs. I have hired Raya a number of times for banner ads, web design and UI. If you want a professional designer who is also a lovely person to work with, hire Raya.

Raya is great at getting the project done. There is no attitude, she's happy to make changes and give you options, and the result is tight - just what you need. If you really want to see her unique creative abilities, hire her to work on sites for kids or for your own creative buisness - she can really break it out of the standard kind of template and give you an organic, lively, and engaging result.

I have been working with Raya Dukhan since 2000. She created the DumbClothing company logo, site design, and is responsible for updates, re-design and maintenance over the years. The most difficult part of working with a creative web designer is communicating your message and vision. Raya was able to understand and implement all ideas communicated to her. The whole process was made simple. She was able to meet all deadlines effortlessly.