A french interaction designer who loves creating meaningful experiences. I strongly believe in teamwork, video games are one of my passions and I love to joke around. Truly. Currently looking for an end-of-studies internship in User Experience - Product 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 have chosen 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 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.
Our participation to the TD Insurance Challenge 2019
Team: Cécile Tijou, Solène Herrgott and Louise Gazeau
Tools: Ideation, Conceptualisation, Illustration, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere
Date: September 2018 - January 2019
Duration: 7 months
TD Insurance launched its challenge in September 2018 and was asking to come up with new initiatives to improve the positive impact it has on society and to improve community life. We choose 2 subjects: An ideal working environment and reducing our environmental footprint.
Our answer is TD Tree. TD Tree is an interactive data visualization showing TD’s energy consumption.It is located in the entrance of every TD building. Data are collected by sensors through the office and show the current activity inside the building. Td Tree has an interface which include advice or weekly challenge to act for the environment.
Process
We first did an ideation workshop. We came up with the idea of making untangible informations tangible. We decided to focus on TD's employees so that we could have a clear target for our product and service. We really liked the idea of a tree, alive, that would present in real time informations about consumption.
So that the employees could follow the state of their tree and to add useful functionnalities, we did an interface. I was in charge of making it. I took the graphic identity of TD and I did simple - Material Design inspired - screens. The interface has main functionnalities: challenges, advice, news and the current state of the tree.
Our project was selected over 100+ proposals for the semi-finals. We worked on the interface and the 3D. I did two user scenarios animated thanks to Illustrator, After Effect and Premiere. We are waiting for the final answer !
Spoti
An innovative service made with the Parisian Public Transportation Group (RATP)
Team: Cécile Tijou & Louise Gazeau
Tools: Ideation, Conceptualisation, Illustration, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere
Date: May - June 2018
Duration: 1 week
RATP asked to propose a new service that would help an administrative agent more autonomous in his metro station. We answered with Spoti. We created a service that encourage the contact client / agent outside the ticket office. Thanks to a tablet, he can notify his absence to the client or meet him in the metro station. A clear signage helps the client to easily find his way to meet the agent and to have answers.
Process
We had to come up first with three ideas for the wednesday. We did a workshop ideation and creation. We searched for already existing products and services in public transportation. We then continue to work on the solution of having a service that would help the agent to be autonomous and outside the ticket office. Cécile did the area in 3D. I work on the interfaces of the terminal and of the tablet. I also made a quick user scenario.
RATP was glad about our work, and we had the opportunity to present it in the Paris Headquarters in September.
three ideas proposed on wednesday,we had to show a user scenario for each one. This is the one selected.
Rhoo
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
Date: February 2018
Duration: 1 week
Rhoo is an introvert robot: 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.
Process
When the workshop started, 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. We agreed on different materials and functionnalities. I decided to quickly begin to prototype on Arduino. 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.
After some changes, We had the incredible opportunity to present it at Laval Virtual in April 2018.
After Laval, we decided with Solène to make another one called "Throo". Same functionnalities, but different materials.
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 fights of feminism today? I decided to focus my work on cybersexism and cyber harassment at school.
The final result is Et Si ? A website where you can play either Julien or Claire, two teenagers. As soon as you enter the fictive chat, the end will depend on the path you choose to take.
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. At the end of the experience, a personalized interactive data on harassment
Process
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 bullied in France is enormous, and sexism is strongly present. It is mainly sexual insults or rumors about a person, especially if it is a young girl.
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.
Then 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 aim.
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 depending on its answers.
After drawing wireframes, I did the main layouts of my website on Photoshop, with a strong graphic identity: when the users are entering the website, black is the main color, with little touch of green and white. When they decide 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.
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
Date: May 2017
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 result is Together.I tis an app that can be a simple agenda where you can create an event and share it. It can be also a powerful tool that brings companies that struggle with team cohesion with businesses that can help them (escape games, gym...). 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. When the user decided to create his own activity, he needs to:
describe it, choose a location and select a team from the company
Process
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 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. However, after asking the opinion of our ten potential users, we thought that not every kind of colleagues nor team would do that. After defining our functionnalities we did an information architecture so that we could select our main pages to present.
We propose a service that would help organize the companies by themself or propose several activites from different companies : sport club, escape games, seminaries... To let the admin choose depending the working atmosphere.
Potagers Partagés
Developping a concept based on Time Banking.
Team: Alexandre Poirier, Louise Gazeau
Tools: Ideation, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Premiere Pro
Date: March 2016
Duration: 4 weeks
In team of two, we had to create a short project based on time-banking :
“A time bank is a reciprocity-based work trading system in which hours are the currency."
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.
Process
After a brainstorming and quick researches, we chose to work on gardening. Alexandre and I are more and more sensitive regarding our food, and we took our example: two students who never eat fresh vegetables and fruits from our region because of our budget. But what could we do about it ? We thought that the time-banking principle would work well with the idea of a collective garden.
After listed the functionnalities that we wanted to present such as the homepage and a gardener's profile, we quickly drew wireframes and started layouts on Photoshop. It needed to be a functional prototype, so we coded it with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. A final instruction was given before handing our project: we had to explain thanks to a video our concept. We decided to do a stopmotion that we edit on Premiere Pro, check the result (in french only):
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.
