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Hello, I'm Nicolas 👋🏻
Product Designer with over 10 years of experience transforming complexity into clarity.
I design products that address real challenges and integrate sustainably into their ecosystem.
From large organizations to high-growth startups, I have led projects within complex ecosystems, translating vague business challenges into intuitive and scalable experiences.
My strength lies in my ability to connect strategy, systems, and execution. I navigate between business objectives, technical constraints, and user needs to design coherent, impactful, and sustainable products.
I am convinced that design is not about aesthetics, but about structure, intention, and consistency.
UX Research
🎙User interviews (targeting, interview guide, execution, delivery)
📊Quantitative surveys (targeting, writing, distribution, delivery)
🔍Co-design workshops (targeting, workshop design, execution, delivery)
UX Design
🛠Information architecture definition (sitemap, flowchart, user story map…)
👨🏻🎨Graphic concept validation (mood board)
🖌Screen design (sketching, wireframing)
⚙️Interaction design (interactive prototyping)
UI Design
🎨Graphic choices, UI Kit, or Design system
🖥Mockup design (high-fidelity & pixel perfect)
📝Spec generation & Delivery to developers
⏱Integration follow-up & Acceptance testing
Testing
🎛User tests (shadowing, usability testing)
💬Feedback interviews
Looking forward to receiving your message and discussing your project 🚀
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Italian
Fluent
Spanish
Basic
Portuguese
Basic
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Leroy MerlinSenior Product DesignerRETAIL (SMALL BUSINESS)April 2024 - Today (2 years and 4 months)Lille, France🫡 End-to-end experience ownership• Overall experience definition and management: Development and implementation of the UX vision to ensure an optimal and consistent user experience across the entire Product Master Data domain.• Collaboration with cross-functional teams: Close collaboration with cross-functional teams to integrate user feedback throughout the development cycle.• Workflow optimization: Implementation of methodologies and tools to facilitate communication between business, technical, and design teams.🔭 Scoping• Understanding the brief and client environment (stakeholder interviews, existing analysis)• Identification of project restrictions and constraints• Understanding business objectives (interviews, analyses, audits…)• Competitive strength analysis (benchmark)🔍 UX Research• User panel identification• Interview guide writing• Interview execution• Synthesis and insight delivery📐 UX Design• Information architecture definition (sitemap, template mapping…)• User flow development (flowchart, user story map…)• Experience design (experience map)🎨 UI Design• Graphic choices, UI Kit & Design system• High-fidelity mockup design• Functional specification preparation• Mockup delivery to developers• Integration follow-up and acceptance testing🕹️ Testing• Usability testing• Shadowing
- L'Oréal SA - L'Oréal FranceSenior Product DesignerFASHION AND COSMETICSSeptember 2022 - December 2023 (1 year and 2 months)Paris, FranceReporting to the Tech Accelerator entity (L'Oréal's digital asset creation unit), I worked as a Product Designer within the Consumer Loop application team. The application allows internal teams to access and analyze performance data for L'Oréal products (ratings, positive and negative feedback, performance indicators, areas for improvement...).UX research 🔍• User interviews (targeting, interview guide, execution, delivery) via Dovetail• User behavior analysis (shadowing, heatmap...) via HotjarUX Design 📐• Graphic concept validation (mood board)• Screen design (sketching, wireframing)• Interaction development (interactive prototyping)UI Design 🎨• Mockup design (high-fidelity & pixel perfect)• Mockup delivery to developers• Integration follow-up & design reviewDesignOps ⚙️• Design System component proposal + improvement• Design process implementation• Figma file structuring and cleaning
- BPCEProduct Designer / Lead UIBANKING AND INSURANCEJanuary 2020 - May 2022 (2 years and 4 months)Paris, FranceWithin the UX/UI team at Natixis, I worked transversally on all projects for the BPCE group (Banque Populaire, Caisse d'Epargne, Natixis). In this team, I was responsible for the UI part and had several collaborators reporting to me.• UI production for all projects of the Natixis entity & Guarantee of interface consistency and adherence• Co-development, co-maintenance & co-management of the BPCE group design system (Component proposal and specification, participation in the steering committee)• Creation & development of the UX Data offering aimed at applying the user-centric methodology to Power BI for reporting design• Coordination and management of the team's UI designers, mentoring and support on projects
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Education
- BTS CommunicationSup de Com2014• Stratégie & projet de communication • Cultures de la communication • Conseil & relation annonceur • Connaissance des médias • Communication hors-média • Veille études • Infographie & chaine graphique • Economie générale • Management des organisations • Droits des contrats et des organisations & droit du numérique • Droit de la communication
- Bachelor of Digital Project Management, Communication and e-BusinessInstitut de l'Internet et du Multimédia2015• Customer culture & project management • Marketing & market research / product launch • Production management & methods • Project profitability & budgetisation • Integrated marketing communication • Content production & deployment • Customer relation, negociation & NLP • Storytelling & cross-media strategy • Digital video & Buzz marketing • Audience tracking
Certifications
- Agile PMAPMG International2017
- Digital Service Eco-designZenika2022