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Richard SoundirarassouRS

Richard Soundirarassou

Senior Product Designer (UX/UI/UR)

On-demand
5 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Richard

I offer over 15 years of experience as a user-oriented designer to support your digital teams, from large corporations to startups.

My portfolio: pixellimited.com

UX DESIGN

* Designer of digital services and products.
* Personas, Value Proposition, Mind mapping, Customer Journey.
* Scoping, Ideation, Prototyping.
* User testing facilitation.

PLATFORM

* iOS, Watch OS, Android
* Responsive Web (mobile, tablet, desktop).

OPERATIONAL AND STRATEGIC

* Creates Wireframes using Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, or InVision FreeHand.
* Creates interactive mobile and web prototypes using InVision/Craft, Sketch, Figma, XD, ProtoPie.
* Takes over and improves work from agencies or junior UX designers.
* Defends the project vision from the feature team to stakeholders.
* Proactive and proposes solutions.

AGILE METHODOLOGY

* Scrum (Daily Stand-ups, User Story Assignment, Sprint Retrospectives)
* Redmine (Jira, Trello, MeisterTask)
* Google Design Sprint (Monday to Friday results)
* Design Thinking (Scoping, Exploration, Prototype, Test)

UI DESIGNER

* Identifies, creates, and maintains all components.
* Design System creation.
* Atomic Design expert (Atom, Molecule, Organism, Template).
* Motion Design and Micro-interactions (InVision, Webflow, Craft).

ART DIRECTOR

* Branding expert.
* Choice of color palettes and typography.
* Iconography research (Photos).

DEVELOPER FRIENDLY

* Delivers graphic guidelines via InVision or Zeplin.
* Creates PNG assets (@2x, @3x) and SVGs.
* Daily meetings and quality reviews with Drupal, React developers, etc.

VIDEO EDITOR (PASSION)

* Simple motion design using Apple Motion and After Effects.
* Editor using Final Cut Pro X.
* 360 VR video in 5K with GoPro Fusion.

TOP 5 QUALITIES

* Listens to business needs (PO, Marketing, Technical).
* Integrates easily into Scrum teams.
* Trustworthy and autonomous.
* Fluent in English and works in an international context.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

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

Experience

  • DDB Paris
    PRODUCT DESIGN DIRECTOR (CX)
    November 2023 - Today (2 years and 7 months)
    DDB CX, the Customer Experience practice of DDB Paris, is a market-leading customer experience offering, with a strong presence in many key sectors such as retail and automotive. Fueled by Omnicom's proprietary tools and data resources, DDB CX is recognized for its data-driven expertise and customer-centric approach. RESPONSIBILITIES Guardian of all the unit's deliverables with the objective of meeting the CX and business challenges of the brands supported by the agency. STEERING • Steer the work of UX and UI Designers in response to briefs from the agency's account managers and strategic planners. Also collaborate with data analysts. ORGANIZATION • Organize the teams' daily work (task allocation, arbitration, etc.). DESIGN • Design ecosystems, features, services, and journeys as part of tenders and for key agency clients. ANALYSIS • Analyze and decipher best practices and UX/UI trends across the agency's clients' various sectors through benchmarks. SUPERVISION • Supervise UX Research in collaboration with strategic planning and specialized research firms. IDEATION • Facilitate ideation sessions in collaboration with clients. RECRUITMENT • Participate in the recruitment of UX/UI designer profiles in collaboration with the agency's HR department. ADVOCACY • Contribute to the advocacy of UX and UI design activities within the agency.
  • MATSUKO Holographic
    Product Design
    TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    May 2021 - Today (5 years and 1 month)
    Paris, France
    PRODUCT VISION
    • Facilitate workshops with CEOs to improve company vision.
    • Convert CEO's vision (why) to Product Strategy (how) and actionable plan (what).

    TEAM MANAGEMENT
    • Define and write job descriptions to hire the best candidates with HR and CEOs.
    • Candidate interview sessions with high-end experts (UI / UX, Unity, UR, Business Development).
    • Regular direction and feedback to encourage talent progression, autonomy, and ownership.
    • Trust management and human well-being over process and performance.

    AGILE PRODUCTION
    • Agile SQUAD Management of world-class international UX, UI, UR, Devs, QA.
    • Convert product strategy into features or impact roadmaps with the Business Team.
    • Define quarterly, monthly, and sprint goals in Jira, Confluence, Miro with PMs and CEOs.
    • Evangelize "Lean Startup" mindset, Conception (LAB), Production (Delivery).
    • Set and Review Team's and Feature's KPIs to track progression and momentum.

    UX AND DESIGN STRATEGY
    • Audit, analyze, define, spread UX strategy for the Company.
    • Add user knowledge as a mandatory step in the Development and Business funnel. (AARRR)
    • Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps. Miro.
    • Direction of the Design. Design system in Figma. VR Prototypes with Shape XR and Unity.

    USER RESEARCH
    • Define Lean UX Pipeline and Process from R&D, Conception to Production.
    • Conduct user research and testing, develop wireframes and task flows based on user needs.
    • Prepare and present user insights to internal teams and key stakeholders to improve the product.
    Product Management Product Design User Research Agile Method
  • Le Parisien Magazine / Groupe LVMH (Freelance)
    Experience Designer UX/UI
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    February 2017 - Today (9 years and 4 months)
    Paris, France
    Objective: Art Direction for the new women's website of Le Parisien.

    • Mobile adaptation and rollout of the Art Direction.
    • Communication on Slack with the internal team of Le Parisien.
    • Creation of the MVP in HTML/CSS/JavaScript using Webflow.
    • Creation of micro-interactions (JS).
    • Creation of UX flows and responsive navigation.
    User Experience Design User Interface Design Webflow

Reviews

4.3

Out of 4 ratings

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Reviewed on 12/21/2017

It's not everyone's ability to take ownership of someone else's project and make it even more powerful than the original project through applied, rigorous work combined with the creation of a highly innovative UI to give full value to your mobile application project, that's what Richard brought us and we highly recommend him for your projects.
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Education

  • Multimedia Director
    Ecole multimédia
    1998
    Formation qualifiante aux métiers du Digital * Adobe Creative Suite * Adobe Premiere * After Effect * Flash * HTML/CSS/Javascript * PHP
  • DUT SRC (Communication Services and Networks)
    Université de marne la vallée
    1997
    * Multimédia * Communication * Réseaux et Systèmes d'information

Certifications

  • Design Sprint
    AJ&Smart and Jake Knapp
    2018
    Design Sprint Facilitation
  • Design Sprint
    Design Sprint by Stéphane Crouchons
    2019
    Design Sprint Facilitation

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