Michael Descharles

Product Designer, I have been working for 12 years to solve real human problems that people face in their daily lives. Whether it's creating a product vision strategy or designing a B2B SaaS application from scratch, these are the types of challenges I enjoy tackling through a user-centered design process.

Throughout my experience, I've learned everything from conducting user surveys and evaluating user research, to information architecture, wireframes, user flows, user stories, UX principles, visual design, user testing and iteration, design systems, and prototyping. I feel very comfortable taking a project from inception to final implementation, which could involve creating high-fidelity prototypes.

I enjoy iterating as much as possible based on usability test results. I like to test often and test early so that there aren't many issues down the road. Designing products based on user research is essential in my design process.

Some examples of deliverables I produce on a daily basis:

- User Research, Personas, User Interviews

- User Journey, User Flows

- Product Benchmark, Business Analysis

- Site Map, Information Architecture

- Low fidelity prototypes

- User Tests

Other skills I enjoy using:

- Advocate for Design thinking

- Write user test guide

- Pushing big companies into the process of Fail fast - Learn fast

- User Story Mapping

- Building Design system

- Process improvement (aligning design processes with dev processes)

- Design Documentation

- Presentation, Facilitation, Workshops

My favorite tools: Figma, Notion, Slack, Hotjar, Miro.