A french interaction designer who loves creating meaningful experiences. I am looking for an end-of-studies internship in UX Design starting in June 2019.
About me
I have a Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design. I am now doing a double Master's degree in User Experience / Tangible Interfaces (IoT) at L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique and in Management and business administrations at IAE. Why User Experience ? This quote from Emelyn Baker explains it pretty well:
“If your design doesn’t improve
the user’s experience, it is purely decorative and useless.”
Indeed, I choose to specialize in User Experience because I am keen on creating products and services that are easy to use and also delightful. That is why I am also amazed by Digital Product Design. The entire process of creating usable products and experiences by understanding the user is my passion.
I strongly believe in teamwork, I find pugs beautiful and I love to joke around. Truly.
I try to improve myself daily by reading and getting inspired thanks to different kind of websites and books.
Some time to time I publish on Medium.
We were asked to produce a connected object that would intrigue people at the virtual reality event Laval Virtual.
Team: Solène Herrgott & Louise Gazeau
Tools Ideation, SolidWorks, Arduino
Duration: 1 week
On monday, we did a long session of brainstorming and sketching, to search for several ideas. At the end of the day, we choose to work on an introvert character. I decided to quickly begin to prototype on Arduino. We had the main concept: when there is no one near the object, it is blue and happy. When there is someone in front of it, it is red and upset. It is possible to calm it by petting it.
Solène took care of the building part during the week. Rhoo is made of wood and has a transparent shell made of thermoforming. I took care of the electronic part.Inside, there is an Arduino Uno, a telemeter, a touch sensor (piezo in the first version) and leds.
We had the incredible opportunity to present it at Laval Virtual in April 2018.
For my bachelor thesis, I decided to focus on the theme: "Feminism and interactive data visualisation." with this problematic:
How to highlight intuitively and playfully the various fight of feminism today?
I first decided to do researches and to have interviews with feminist associations. Amandine Berton-Schmitt, from the Centre Hubertine Auclert in Paris, gave me a lot of data regarding cyber harassment at school. I saw that the amount of children being bullying in France is enormous, and sexism is strongly present when bullying. It is mainly sexual insults or rumors about a person, especially if it is a young girl.
It was at this moment than I decided to based my Bachelor project on cybersexism and cyber harassment at school.
I thought about different ideas on how could I inform intuitively the parents about what's happening in France on cybersexism. I also wanted the possibility for the adult to discover these pieces of information together with their children, so it had to be also playful.
That is when I had the idea to create an interactive experience where the parents could see what cyberharassment feels like by playing as a teenager in a fictive chat, so they would better understand how this kind of situation can happen at school. I decided to put the datas that I had on cyberharassment and cyber sexism at the end of each experience to accentuate my point.
I was inspired by point and click video games, when the user can have a different story ending by the way they play. (The video-game company Telltale for example was developing a lot with this feature).
The next step was the creation of the platform. First, I planned the website architecture with every kind of choices the user will have by depending its answer.
After drawing wireframes, I did the main layouts of my website on Photoshop, with a strong graphic identity: When the user is entering the website, black is the main color, with little touch of green and white. When they decided to play and enter the fictive chat, the colors switch: the player knows that the game starts.
Secondly, I coded the website with HTML5,CSS3 and JavaScript because I deeply wanted to have a fully-working prototype with data that you can interact with.
Several answers are available, and you can have three different endings: be harassed, be part of the harassment or defend the one who is harassed.
I decided to add some sound design. To me, the user needed to feel really involved in the story.
After showing my prototype to my friends, I finally presented it in June 2017.
You can have a look at my final presentation here (In French only).
Together
A short project based on team cohesion.
Team: Anastasia Pescheux-Sergienko, Louise Gazeau, Titouan Motreuil
Tools: Ideation, Photoshop, Illustrator
Duration: 4 weeks
In a group of three,we were asked to come up with a product idea. It could be anything, as long as we analyzed our audience and fully described our product.
We decided to propose a service that would suggest and help organize activities for companies in order to bring cohesion between colleagues.
The first step was to create personas, to do surveys, and to explain in which case our product would be used.
We did six personas, from the young intern who deeply wants to bring joy and fun in a stark agency to a man who doesn't bother to be alone and not doing anything with his colleagues other than working.
We realized a survey and asked ten people about how they were feeling at work and if cohesion was essential to them.
We also asked them to suggest what kind of activities would come to their mind if they wanted to increase the cohesion at work.
The results were that the majority wanted to know their colleagues better and to be friends and that nobody knew any kind of platform that would allow them to organize some activities.
We did a benchmark based on different topic: apps that would manage your time (Doodle, Tom's planner), manage invitations (Event brite, Dooliz) and apps based on team building (Goose chase, The Go Game).
We were very interested in the last two ones about team building. Indeed they were funny, however, we did not think that every kind of colleagues and team would do that. We wanted to propose a service that would help organize or propose varied activites from different companies : sport club, escape games, seminaries... To let the admin choose depending the working atmosphere.
When the user decided to create his own activity, he needs to:
describe it, choose a location and select a team from the company
We decided to propose our service on an App.
Together can be a simple agenda and reminder for events organized by the company. It can be also a powerful tool that brings companies that struggle with team cohesion with business that can help them. It is an app that helps the manager to organize different kind of activities for their colleagues in order to have fun and create cohesion.
La Poste
A service helping the child to manage his money
Team: Anastasia Pescheux-Sergienko, Diane Coumailleau, Louise Gazeau
Tools: Ideation, Photoshop, Illustrator, 3DSMAX
Duration: 3 weeks
Will future banks be fully digitalized?
That was the theme of The third edition of the Service Design Prize by La Poste (2017). We had to think about a service that "would make you want to set foot in La Banque Postale of the future."
In group of three, we decided to base our service on pocket money.
We first did a big phase of research by doing brainstorming sessions and going directly into La Poste' offices to talk to the employees. We learnt a lot in terms of needs. It was complicated for them to let the child knows what is the value of money and why you can or can not use it.
We then move on to the Ideation phase thanks to the "How Might We" IDEO Methodology. For example: "How might we help the child to understand the value of its money?" or "How might we let the child manage its money easily ?".
We thought: Why not a keychain that would work like a credit card ? We needed to had several functionalities to avoid obvious problems. We came up with an app where the child would see of much he has, and also he can receive money from their relatives easily by banking transfer.
We created Léon, a connected object that could serve as a form of payment on a key chain that teaches children the value of money and helps them to spend it wisely. It goes with an application, where it can check its little bank account and thanks its relative when it receives money from them.
In team of two, with my other friend Alexandre, we had to based our short project ( four lessons) on time-banking :
“A time bank is a reciprocity-based work trading system in which hours are the currency."
Since the beginning we wanted to work on gardening. We took our example: two students who never eat fresh vegetables and fruits from our region. But what could we do about it ?
That’s when we came up with an idea about collective garden. One with knowledge and with a garden could teach another about gardening and give him fresh fruits and vegetables as a thank you for his help and for his time.
During my internship, I was asked to do a booklet for ACCM, an association that helps “to enhance the quality of life of people living with HIV or hepatitis C”.
My mission was to do a printable booklet. I was free to do what I wanted. Based on the same graphical identity than the website (typography and colors), the booklet is one side english, and one side french. I decided to use pictograms and played with geometrical forms thanks to the pictures.
You can visit ACCM website here
For five years, I learnt a lot in terms of
User Experience
Thanks to workshops,school projects and work experiences, I am able to understand the user' needs and problems by doing personas, empathy maps, user flows and much more. I am used to prototype quickly and to test again and again my services.
User Interface
I have done several graphic identities for websites. I also worked on visual design for web and product interfaces. I am comfortable with both PC and Mac pieces of software.
People
My internships at Montreal and at Munich taught me a lot. I met wonderful and talented human being from all over the world.
