
Antoine Ravin
Lead Product Designer
Salary / Daily rate
Lyon, France
Mobility: Paris, Rhône, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Creative and results-driven professional with over 10 years of experience designing intuitive and visually compelling SaaS solutions. Specialised in transforming complex systems into user-friendly experiences, leveraging a strong background in knowledge management engineering to solve intricate problems efficiently. Passionate about blending design and strategy to drive innovation and business success.
Work experience
Lead Product Designer
DataGalaxy
Sep 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
Lyon, France
• Mentored junior designers, providing guidance and feedback to enhance skills and performance. • Leading token based design system implementation, ensuring consistency while tackling accessibility concerns. • Fostered strong collaboration between engineering and design teams, improving communication and workflow. • Figma and Notion Guru optimising project delivery and team organisation.
Freelance Product Designer
Attract UXFreelance
Aug 2018 - Present
8 years 3 months
Lyon, France
• Assisting clients from concept owners to mature businesses providing User Centric Design approach. • Understanding & defining your visitors/prospects' behavior • Bringing to life concept/draft based on UX best practices • Auditing an existing solution in terms of UX • Organising product conception & prioritizing features
Senior Product Designer
KAWA AIFreelance
May 2024 - Dec 2024
8 months
Paris, France
• Delivered a fund-raising-ready demo prototype in Figma, effectively showcasing the product's potential to investors. • Fostered team culture by organising and leading workshops, promoting collaboration and shared vision across stakeholders. • Reduced the product learning curve for advanced users by integrating AI capabilities, improving usability and adoption rates. • Challenged the product vision and development priorities, ensuring that user needs remained the focus of decision-making.
Senior Product Designer (1st designer)
Seyna
Sep 2022 - May 2024
1 year 9 months
Paris, France
• Established and maintained the company's first design system, significantly improving UI/UX consistency across products and ensuring precise design specifications for developers. • Earned exceptional feedback from team members and leadership for rapid execution, adaptability, and collaborative working style. • Partnered with cross-functional teams, including product managers and developers, to conceptualise and design user-centric digital products and features. • Led the end-to-end design process, from wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes, resulting in improved user satisfaction and engagement. • Pioneered the creation of a scalable design system, aligning branding and UI elements across multiple platforms to ensure a cohesive user experience. • Advocated for user-centered design principles and collaborated closely with stakeholders to align design solutions with business objectives.
Lead UX Designer
SynapsFreelance
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
6 months
Lyon, France
• Mentored and managed a Junior Product Designer, fostering their growth and autonomy in delivering high-quality work. • Implemented an efficient design review process, reducing design iteration time by 10% and improving workflow efficiency. • Provided hands-on mentorship to a Junior Product Designer, ensuring alignment with project goals and maintaining design consistency. • Partnered with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and stakeholders, to define and prioritise design requirements, successfully integrating AI assistance into the product. • Conducted user research and usability testing to refine designs, streamlining ID document verification processes by reducing steps by 30%, resulting in a smoother and more efficient user experience.
Lepermislibre
Apr 2021 - Apr 2022
1 year 1 month
Lyon, France
Lead Product Designer - PM
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
8 months
Lyon, France
• Strengthened the design team by mentoring and recruiting talent, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. • Boosted app usage, achieving a 25% increase in lessons offered to students through effective design and usability improvements. • Established a robust design system, enabling faster design iterations and reducing inconsistencies across the app. • Held a dual role as Lead Product Designer and Product Manager, driving both the strategic and design aspects of product development. Recruited a Junior Product Designer, expanding team capacity and ensuring smooth knowledge transfer. Advocated for and supported the hiring of a dedicated Product Owner. • Set up a Figma Team workspace and initiated a component library, laying the groundwork for a scalable design system. • Collaborated with developers to ensure the seamless implementation of design solutions, achieving a high level of design integrity.
Senior UX Designer
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
6 months
69340 Francheville, France
• Delivered a comprehensive prototype showcasing mobile app behaviour, navigation, and animations, driving alignment among stakeholders. • Mentored peer designers, supporting their growth and improving the team's overall design quality and delivery. • Revamped the aging driving instructor mobile app, improving its user experience through modernised and intuitive design. • Initiated and led the creation of a detailed design system, ensuring consistency and efficiency across UI elements and interactions. • Designed and delivered user-friendly interfaces for critical app features, increasing user engagement and satisfaction.
Lead UI / UX Designer
BNP Paribas
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
2 years 2 months
Paris Area, France
• Successfully delivered two major product versions, driving a 30% increase in user satisfaction and a 15% boost in key feature utilisation. • Spearheaded the creation of a scalable design system, enhancing collaboration between design and engineering teams and reducing feature delivery time from 8 to 6 sprints. • Acted as a critical liaison between design and engineering teams, fostering seamless communication to ensure the successful implementation of design solutions. • Developed a comprehensive design system, standardising UI components and interactions to improve design consistency and efficiency across projects. • Conducted extensive user research, including interviews, surveys, and usability testing, uncovering pain points that informed design decisions and increased user satisfaction by 30%. • Designed intuitive data visualisations and interfaces to simplify complex datasets, enhancing user comprehension and engagement with the tool. • Shaped the product design vision, aligning user benefits with business objectives and technical constraints to set a clear and achievable product direction. • Facilitated workshops and employed diverse research methods to gather and prioritise user needs, ensuring the delivery of impactful and user-centered solutions.
AXSMarine
Apr 2012 - Apr 2018
6 years 1 month
London, UK
UI / UX Manager
Dec 2013 - Apr 2018
4 years 5 months
London, UK
• Built the Product Design Team from the ground up, advocating for its strategic importance, hiring talent, and fostering a high-performing team culture. • Maintain a coherent UI/UX for 4 web apps addressing the maritime shipping industry. • Reduce development time by 50% providing precise specifications to the tech team & introduced design assets management system. • Strengthen product reliability & user adoption by creating a shared skeleton (I.A.) between the different products unifying a large portion of user flows. • Improved product-market fit by gathering user needs & validating features prior to development with rounds of user testing.
Customer Success Executive
Apr 2012 - Dec 2013
1 year 9 months
London, UK
• Developed a proactive approach to anticipate customer needs, improving support performance and establishing a scalable training methodology. • Gained deep insight into clients' business logic, enabling the identification of critical UX challenges and laying the foundation for subsequent design improvements.
Design Engineer (Information System)
Ardans
Oct 2011 - Mar 2012
6 months
69340 Francheville, France
• Led the design and development of a cash flow management application, aligning features with client needs to optimise financial planning and decision-making for B2B users. • Spearheaded compliance integration by adapting the product to meet new SEPA bank transfer legislation, ensuring seamless compliance while enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.
Junior Project Manager
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Feb 2011 - Aug 2011
7 months
Paris Region, France
• Standardize DMS (Dealer Management System) across the car dealer network • Dealt with internal & external provider to reduce the number of interfaces to be developed between all software • Introduced OBEYA project management methodology
Home teacher
Self-employed
Sep 2006 - Jun 2011
4 years 10 months
Paris, France
• In charges of 5 students (from 12 to 17 years old) • Helped them to get organized, do homework, pass tests
Junior Project Manager
Musandam Rock LLC
Nov 2009 - Feb 2010
4 months
Omanovac, Croatia
• Managed a team of 12 people to set up high capacity conveyor foundations • Planning & onsite exploration for limestone quarry expansion
Ingénieur terrain
ETDE - Groupe BOUYGUES CONSTRUCTION
Jul 2008 - Sep 2008
3 months
Vétheuil, France
• Setting up a database & software to manage the company car park (service, maintenance, security equipment, ...) • Civil work management for the setup of the electrical network on building construction site
Checkout assistant
McDonald's Europe
Oct 2006 - Jun 2007
9 months
78150 Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France
• Working as checkout assistant (in parallele of studying) 70hrs/month
Education
General Assembly
User Experience Design, User Experience Design
2016 - 2017
3 months
ECAM-EPMI
Engineer, Information System Management & Financial Engineering
2006 - 2011
5 years 1 month
Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Licence GEII, Electrical engineering and Industrial data processing
2006 - 2009
3 years 1 month