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Paul Germain

Art Director & Senior Product Designer

€600/day
Versailles, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Paul

Lead Product Designer & Art Director with 20 years of experience, I design, evolve, and manage large-scale Design Systems to serve coherent, high-performing, and sustainable digital products. My approach blends product rigor with creative sensibility, paying close attention to colors, accessibility, visual identity, and the quality of details. I apply design thinking principles to transform complex constraints into clear, useful, and desirable experiences.

After 9 years in permanent positions with clients, I now work as a freelancer, supporting major brands with UI Design, UX, cross-platform consistency (web, iOS, Android), and alignment between design, product, and development.

I have worked for demanding ecosystems in e-commerce (Lacoste, Marionnaud, FNAC, Rue du Commerce), media (Radio France, France Télévisions, franceinfo, Canal+), automotive (Peugeot, DS Automobiles), as well as in insurance, catering, and events.

My role:
→ Structure robust and documented Design Systems,
→ Lay sustainable UI foundations,
→ Facilitate adoption by UX, Product, and Tech teams,
→ Ensure the quality, consistency, and accessibility of interfaces.

Highly focused on process, collaboration, and delivery, I am involved in setting up Figma libraries, tokens, guidelines, documentation, UI audits, and team support.

I also taught at École de Design STRATE on topics of Digital Design Systems, UI Design, and iOS / Android best practices.

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  • English

    Conversational

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Versailles (up to 20km), Paris (up to 15km)

Experience

  • Lacoste
    Senior Product Designer & Lead Design System
    FASHION AND COSMETICS
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 7 months)
    Paris, France
    Responsible for defining and managing the Web, Mobile & App Design Systems strategy, I ensure consistency, performance, and accessibility (WCAG AA) across all Lacoste digital interfaces. I collaborate closely with product, design, and tech teams to guarantee a fluid, consistent, and technically robust experience, from design to code.

    My key responsibilities:

    Design System Leadership – Web, Mobile & App
    Roadmap management, governance, and evolution of the Design System. Implementation of unified guidelines, documentation, tokens, components, and team support during discovery phases (audits, recommendations, component selection, methodological advice).

    Mobile App Expertise (iOS & Android)
    Creation and optimization of screens, micro-interactions, transitions, haptic feedback, and visual feedback. Regular collaboration with mobile developers to ensure faithful, performant, and pixel-perfect execution.

    Deployment of New Brand Codes
    Co-creation with Brand teams to analyze UI/UX impacts related to the new art direction. Workshops, exploration, testing, adaptation of styles (typographies, colors, spacing), creation of new DS, and alignment on accessibility and technical constraints.

    Quality & Execution Excellence
    Review and finalization of mockups, consistency checks with the Design System and art direction, support for product teams to ensure polished, elegant, and consistent interfaces across the entire digital ecosystem.
    Figma Design System E-commerce Atlassian JIRA User Interface Design
  • MMA
    Lead Design System
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    September 2024 - November 2024 (2 months)
    Le Mans, France
    As Lead Design System, I supported the MMA teams in structuring, optimizing, and evolving their Design System for the Customer Area. My role was to provide senior expertise to modernize tools, improve visual and functional consistency, and establish solid foundations for the system's maintenance and scalability.

    Main missions:

    Comprehensive Audit of the Existing Design System
    Analysis of the Figma structure, evaluation of libraries, identification of inconsistencies and obsolete or missing components. Strategic recommendations to re-align design, UX, and product vision.

    Reorganization of the Figma Structure
    Implementation of a clear, intuitive, and scalable architecture: coherent groupings, unified nomenclature, rationalization of variants and master components to simplify the daily work of design & dev teams.

    Component Optimization and Redesign Recommendations
    Study of actual usage, proposals for new components, redesign of fundamental elements, improvement of token logic, and reflection on the design system's functional coverage.

    Design System Project Management
    Coordination with product, design, and tech teams. Prioritization, delivery organization, documentation of best practices, and team support to ensure smooth adoption.

    Improvement of the Customer Area via the Design System
    UI/UX alignment, strengthening interface-experience consistency, establishing foundations to accelerate future product developments.
    Figma Design System
  • Proz
    Art Director & Senior UI Designer
    TECH
    December 2023 - January 2025 (1 year and 1 month)
    Versailles, France
    Collaboration with the PROZ collective, a group of experts in content strategy and growth marketing, recognized for its high standards, quality of references, and measurable results.

    Involvement in several projects for PROZ clients, focusing on digital, web, and print creation, in close collaboration with strategy and content teams.

    Key achievements:

    WhySoft: Complete creation of the brand's graphic and visual identity
    • Definition of the graphic charter
    • Color management with an accessibility approach
    • Typographic creation and selection
    • Design of the website's homepage
    • Adaptation of communication materials (social media, sales brochures, business cards, mockups, etc.)

    Collaboration with DOOHYOULIKE on the design of a magazine dedicated to the indoor advertising market. Art direction and print design focusing on the agency's expertise, its teams, and its different business areas. An editorial project blending clarity, visual impact, and brand consistency.

    Alan: Design of several educational infographics on best practices for evolving towards a self-learning organization. A mission focused on quality, brand consistency, and visual impact, serving high-value content strategies.
    Adobe Creative Suite Design System Figma Art Direction Print Graphic Design

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Education

  • Obtained
    IBGS (digital professions) web design, digital projects, video editing.

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