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Experience
- ExomindProduct Research & StrategistINTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)September 2021 - Today (4 years and 8 months)Main mission:Accompany Decathlon's sports brands in launching new IoT products with high impact and added value.Main tasks:- UX strategy and alignment of the project team: framing, objectives, hypotheses about target users and the product.- Plan and coordinate user research activities to ensure a thorough understanding of the target users' needs and expectations.- Facilitate ideation workshops to generate and prioritize innovative ideas that meet user needs.- Design consistent and attractive user interfaces for complex connected products.- Plan and conduct user testing sessions to validate proposed solutions.- Analyze and synthesize user study results into qualitative deliverables.- Identify opportunities for innovation and development of new connected products in close collaboration with project teams.- Coach Junior Product Designers on user research and design methodologies.- Participate in the continuous improvement of the discovery methodology.Tools: Figma, Miro, Maze, G.workspace, Trello, Jira.Framework / Guidelines: Atomic Design, Responsive Design, Material Design, ISO Standard, W3C, WAI.Platforms: Mobile ApplicationSkills: Interpersonal skills · Communication · Requirements definition · Prototyping · Needs analysis · Workshop facilitation · Agile methods · User experience testing · Wireframing
- AlticsUX designerCONSULTING AND AUDITSJanuary 2020 - July 2020 (6 months)Lyon, FranceA digital agency focused on humans, Altics specializes in user research and e-commerce. My work at Altics includes my involvement in 12 client missions and 3 internal missions.Clients: Google & Carrefour, France TV, Handynamic, Pum plastique.Methodologies & teams: User-centered methodologies: UX Analysis, UX Design, and UX Evaluation in pairs with 1 UX Designer and under the direction of a Lead UX.Achievements:- Expert audit of existing applications- Gathering user needs- Gathering pain points and business constraints- Persona definition- Writing use cases- Building optimized user journeys- Low-fidelity mockups (wireframing) in iterative mode- High-fidelity mockups of solutions for integration- Individual user interviews/focus groups, in-person/remote- Writing functional deliverables- Writing scientific thesis- UX and cognitive science watch
- Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI)UX research / HMI ErgonomistEDUCATION AND E-LEARNINGApril 2019 - June 2019 (2 months)Bordeaux, FranceFablab Labri is a Bordeaux-based laboratory dedicated to research in the digital and new technologies sector. Within a multidisciplinary team, I conducted a user study to evaluate the usability of a prototype (holobot robot + programming interface) and the appeal of the prototype for middle schoolers in order to identify barriers to its use. In parallel, I carried out research on the contribution of robotics as a pedagogical tool in teaching programming to 4th-grade students.Methods & teams: Scientific methods, experimental protocol, heuristic scales, with 1 professional supervisor, 1 university supervisor, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from ENSEIRB and IUT of Bordeaux.Achievements:- Literature review- Needs gathering through contextual observations and interviews- Creation of optimized user journeys- Low-fidelity mockups (wireframing)- Writing functional deliverables- Writing scientific thesisFablab Labri is a Bordeaux-based laboratory dedicated to research in the digital and new technologies sector. Within a multidisciplinary team, I conducted a user study to evaluate the usability of a prototype (holobot robot + programming interface) and the appeal of the prototype for middle schoolers in order to identify barriers to its use. In parallel, I carried out research on the contribution of robotics as a pedagogical tool in teaching programming to 4th-grade students.Methods & teams: Scientific methods, experimental protocol, heuristic scales, with 1 professional supervisor, 1 university supervisor, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from ENSEIRB and IUT of Bordeaux.Achievements:- Literature review- Needs gathering through contextual observations and interviews- Creation of optimized user journeys- Low-fidelity mockups (wireframing)- Writing functional deliverables- Writing scientific thesisSkills: Fundamental Research · Interpersonal skills · Communication · Requirements definition
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Education
- Master Cognitive Science and Technology, specialization Human-Machine InteractionUniversité Lumière Lyon 22020Facteurs humains et ergonomie IHM. Méthodologies UX, analyse des besoins utilisateurs, ateliers d'idéation, tests utilisateurs, wireframing. Accessibilité numérique, conception inclusive, règle de conception
- Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science and TechnologyUniversité Lumière Lyon 22018Sciences cognitives, psychologies cognitives, Ergonomie physique et numérique, Accessibilité numérique, neuromarketing
Certifications
- UX-PM level 3UX|Alliance2023