Raphaël Digout

A confidential AI platform enabling enterprises to run private AI workloads on distributed infrastructure, without exposing sensitive data to third parties. → Zero to shipped: designed five product surfaces from scratch in three months, PrivatAI (conversational AI), the AI Pals suite (Research, Legal, Writing), an on-chain Explorer, a staking dashboard, and a compute provider interface. → Made the invisible legible: structured the information architecture for infrastructure most users will never see directly (compute management, node orchestration, confidentiality controls), so a technically complex system reads as controlled and trustworthy. → Built the entire design system solo, to enterprise-grade standards, spanning every surface above. → AI-augmented workflow: integrated Claude Code, Lovable & Figr across research synthesis, prototyping, documentation, and iteration. The role where I became an AI-augmented designer.

A real estate investment marketplace, making property investment accessible and transparent to a broader investor audience. → Owned the core product end to end: designed marketplace flows for property listing, investment opportunities, portfolio dashboards, plus the certification and referral flows around them. → Built & maintained the Figma design system from the ground up across complex onboarding and regulated investment flows. → Data into action: analyzed drop-off through session recordings, redesigned the friction points, lifted completion rate by 35%. → Directed a team of 3: one designer on design system and prototypes, one on core product features, one graphic designer on branding and assets, while staying hands-on with core flow execution myself.

Aelin is a capital-raising platform connecting fund sponsors with investors for structured raises and deals. Started as an evening side project in 2022 alongside full-time roles, became my full-time focus through 2024. → Founded and shipped from zero, sole designer for 3 years: first prototype to $8M+ in capital deployed, 4,800+ users, 5 major platform versions. → Owned the brand from the ground up: logotype, typography, color system, and every visual variation across product, marketing, and community touchpoints. → Designed trust mechanics for high-stakes financial decisions: investors committing capital irreversibly, with no safety net if terms changed mid-raise. → Built the entire design system and component library from scratch, scaled across every raise type, dashboard, and account interaction the platform supported. → Led product discovery from day one: defined investor and sponsor personas, prioritized the roadmap, worked directly with engineering to ship. → Ran 50+ interviews with active fund contributors to validate trust signals and flow logic before shipping. → Built a custom analytics dashboard to define and track the KPIs that mattered (capital deployed, active raises, user growth), turning raw activity data into product decisions. → Extended beyond product: contributed to pitch decks, social content, and presentation materials used to raise capital and grow the platform.

Parallel Founding Designer missions on two 0→1 products. Full ownership on each, from strategy to shipped product. → Lyzis: Designed a decentralised marketplace for authenticated luxury goods. Full product, brand, and design system from zero. Two platforms: a consumer marketplace and a tokenized investment environment. → Learnify: Designed a gamified mobile learning platform. UX architecture, visual identity, gamification mechanics, and design system from zero. → Both delivered independently: product strategy, user research, UX/UI design, and design system. Solo, full ownership.

A social investing and copy trading platform. Full redesign delivered in a 6-month contract, from diagnosis to shipped product. → Simplified complex financial mechanics for a non-expert audience: redesigned portfolio creation, simulation, and rebalancing to remove friction at every step. → Mapped the onboarding funnel, found exactly where users dropped before their first trade, and redesigned around one goal: activation. → Following launch: 62% copy trading adoption in week one, +180% transaction growth, 52% retention at 3 months. → Translated a technically complex investment product into an experience usable by people with no prior trading background.

Redesign of a B2B CRM used daily by 14,000+ insurance advisors, at one of France's largest mutual insurance groups. → Redesigned a legacy CRM, restructuring advisor workflows built around high-frequency, repetitive tasks. → Designed within Pegasystems PRPC platform constraints, turning system limitations into UX opportunities. → Directed user research and usability testing sessions with advisors, validating every redesign decision before it shipped. → Built the product's first structured design system, working across a squad of 6 designers. → Mentored incoming designers joining the team: paired on design system adoption, ran critique sessions, and set the review standards new hires followed.

The MAIF mobile app for iOS and Android, the company's most central B2C product. Grew usage from 800,000 to 1.5M+ policyholders during my time on it, the project that took my scope from mid-level execution to senior ownership of the product's UX direction. → Consolidated MAIF's standalone apps into one native experience: Personal Finance Manager, pay-as-you-go insurance, life insurance contracts, claims declaration and tracking, and real-time tow-truck tracking modeled on Uber. → Trained by professionals from Gobelins School in Paris, ran 500+ hours of user interviews and 3 focus groups, pairing qualitative research directly into roadmap prioritization. → Built custom usage dashboards in pair with a data analyst and used session recordings to pinpoint exactly where users dropped off, lifting retention by 50%. → Presented at Devoxx France and Web2day on accessibility and design systems.

Co-founded and lead a digital design agency serving 50+ clients across healthcare, e-gaming, and professional services over three years. → Built the studio's business from zero alongside: pricing, client acquisition, and scope, on top of design execution. → Recruited and managed a small team to deliver in parallel across multiple client projects. → Framed and shipped LaSolution.info, translating a legal-practice founder's raw concept into a working product end to end. → Built brand identities end-to-end for every client: logo, typography, color systems, and full visual guidelines, before ever specializing in product design. → First exposure to running a business: pitching, pricing, and managing client relationships alongside the craft itself.