Thierry Raguin

Lead Researcher | Designer | Strategist | Ops

Salary / Daily rate

Lyon, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Product StrategyProduct ManagementUX Product DesignUser ResearchUI Product Design

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

👨‍💻 Design Strategist / ResearchOps / DesignOps / Lead Researcher & Designer, specialised in Product, User Experience (UX) and Employee Experience (EX) 🎯 Influencing strategic direction and research / design / product roadmap. Deep research & design expertise to ensure successful delivery of top-tier products and services in international & diverse settings. 🗓️ I’m available for both short-term or long-term work. 📍 I prefer working remotely or in a hybrid environment around Lyon, France.

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Work experience

Lead Design Researcher

EDF

Jan 2024 - Present

2 years 10 months

Lyon, France

EDF (French multinational electric utility company) wants to better understand how 3D data is used in their different nuclear divisions in order to define an improved IS for 3D by rationalising costs, improving satisfaction and streamlining apps and processes across divisions. Main mission: • Identify and compile current knowledge from various sources • Collect data on types of 3D data, applications, and use cases • Interview key users from different divisions (engineering, exploitation, deconstruction, training, etc.) • Streamline language around 3D data • Map all knowledge on 3D data types, use cases, lifecycles, applications, storage, etc. in complete yet easy-to-understand mappings • Identify areas of improvements • Prioritize recommendations with stakeholders

Design Strategist / Service & UX Designer / Creative Technologist / Founder

DICE Studio

Feb 2019 - Present

7 years 9 months

Lyon Area, France

Services provided: • Design Strategy / Design Management / ResearchOps / DesignOps • Service Design (including User Research) • UX Design (including User Research)

Member - Core team

Wikihero

Jul 2023 - Sep 2024

1 year 3 months

Remote

Member of the team behind Wikihero. I share my knowledge, experience and latest discoveries on the following topics: • Design Strategy • Design Management • ResearchOps / DesignOps • User / Design Research • Experience Design / UX We're a group of ten or so seniors who have come together to raise the level of UX practice through peer-to-peer sharing, and to create the highest-quality open-access library in our field. Discover our manifesto and join us 👉 https://bit.ly/3Rbwt7M

Product Strategist & UX Researcher

Holcim

Mar 2023 - May 2023

3 months

Lyon, France

Holcim Innovation Center was investigating the opportunity to further develop an internal digital application into a full-fledged product for their customers. I offered my services to support them in taking on a product-oriented approach and define a vision and roadmap for such a product. At the end of the mission, Holcim Innovation Center had all the necessary insights to decide on pursuing or not this product. Main missions: • Define the product vision (using Roman Pichler's extended Product Vision Board canvas) • Benchmark the competition • Audit the existing internal app (using Nielsen's Usability Heuristics for UI Design) • Define proto-personas for the main target user groups identified • Conduct customer interviews to validate the personas and gather insights to finalise the vision and roadmap • Define the roadmap for the product

Solvay

Jul 2020 - Dec 2022

2 years 6 months

Multi-Experience Sub-Platform Lead (ad interim) / Lead Researcher & Designer

Mar 2022 - Dec 2022

10 months

Main missions: • Define the vision and the strategy of the Multi-Experience (MX) platform to respond to the vision and needs of the Group in terms of design research work and experience design in close collaboration with peers from other teams to elevate the efficiency of the operating model • Provide leadership to a team of co-located and distributed Product Designers leading research and design work throughout the product development lifecycle  • Strengthen a dedicated research and design team that is passionate about our users (Employees, Customers, Distributors, etc.) and how they work • Lead specific research and design activities to ensure best-in-class methodologies Key Outputs: • Research & Design Processes - Improve existing processes to maximize engagement and reduce duplicated efforts - Define clear metrics of success based on business goals and ensure team alignment - Establish a clear scheme of research and design delivery in line with overall operating model - Continuously monitor and disseminate relevant industry and market trends and methods to the team and Solvay in general • Team Coordination - Work hand-in-hand with the MX Platform’s Coordinators to forecast work and manage resourcing (including the use of externals when necessary) - Recruit, mentor and nurture a highly engaged and passionate team of Design Researchers and Product Designers - Set up clear and efficient recruiting standards based on forecasted needs • Research & Design Tools - Standardize the tooling and methods used to ensure consistency, efficiency and adoption • Research & Design Culture - Create a Research & Design culture and promote it within Solvay - Evangelize research and design at Solvay - Establish strong cross-functional relations with other teams to foster collaboration and efficiency, and contribute to breaking down silos and improving processes within an Agile organisation

Senior UX Research/Design Lead @ The Design Studio

Jul 2020 - Mar 2022

1 year 9 months

Lyon, France

#1 Lead UX Researcher / Designer: Identify needs and correlations within a team. Choose appropriate methodology and ensure delivery from business requirements to interfaces. Promote continuous improvement • Research Planning and Recruitment • Data Collection • Data Analysis • Presentation of Insights • Strategy #2 Upskill the Design Studio team on Service and UX Design methodologies: UX Brief, UX Audits, Inclusive Design & Accessibility, UX for Dataviz, Prioritization methods, etc. #3 Evangelisation of Service and UX Design within the company

Econocom

May 2012 - Oct 2018

6 years 6 months

Lyon Area, France

hi! Practice Manager (Experience Design) - AI / Chatbots Lab Manager @Digital Labs (Econocom)

Jan 2017 - Oct 2018

1 year 10 months

Lyon Area, France

Manager of the eXperience Design practice: hi! - Building and promotion of our offer and strategy - Management of a team of 10 designers - Partnership management - Management of pre-sales and consulting services - Consulting on Service Design, UX Design, Innovative Services - Human resources AI / Chatbots Lab Manager: - Building and promotion of our offer - Partnership management - Management and consulting on chatbot and conversational services - Pre-sales, consulting, demonstration and delivery of innovative artificial intelligence and chatbot solutions

UX Design, Mobile & Apple Innovation Lab Manager @Digital Labs (Econocom)

May 2012 - Oct 2018

6 years 6 months

Lyon, France

Building offerings and strategy of our UX, mobile (iOS, Android, Windows) and Apple innovation services: - Pre-sales, promotion and demonstration - Management, consulting and delivery of innovative solutions to customers of Econocom, Digital Application Services - Management of technical partnership with Apple - Strong links with other domains of the Digit-all Labs structure: Internet of Things (IoT), Security, Smart Data, Cloud Solutions, Unified Collaboration, Google Innovations, Microsoft Innovations

IT Project Manager

SNCF (Direction des Systèmes d'Information et de la Télécommunication)

Apr 2013 - Jul 2013

4 months

Lyon, France

Project Manager – PDA version of “Fil Conducteur” (Windows Mobile 6) Emergency project management to finalise the development of the Windows Mobile version of “Fil Conducteur”, a corporate social network for train drivers and their management - Project management (2 developers) - Testing - Development support Technical environment: Windows Mobile 6, C#, .NET Compact Framework 3.5, OpenNetCF, SharePoint Online 2010/2013, HP Quality Center 11

IT Project Manager

SNCF (Direction des Systèmes d'Information et de la Télécommunication)

Jun 2012 - Sep 2012

4 months

Lyon, France

Communication Project Manager: Management of a team of 8 Web and mobile developers for the SNCF (Internet, Intranet, events, crisis management) Mobile UI/UX consultant: UI/UX consulting on 4 iPad applications for SNCF top managers

Consultant / Project Manager

Alter Systems

Apr 2010 - May 2012

2 years 2 months

Design of a real-time supervision and operation solution for the Greater Lyon water purification network Consultant on tailored .NET and mobile solutions (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile/Phone): functional and technical consultant in support of existing projects and in pre-sales; design of B2C iOS and Android applications; pre-sales in collaboration with sales manager .NET Project Manager: management of specific .NET development projects, off-shore development team management, respect of deadlines and quality. Responsible for monitoring national and international public tenders (BOAMP, JOUE, APA, Press, United Nations): identification of tenders, drafting of technical and commercial proposals, referencing of the company with the United Nations.

Project Manager / Product Manager / Creative Technologist

NetUnion

Apr 2001 - Jan 2010

8 years 10 months

Lausanne Area, Switzerland

Product manager, lead architect, designer and developer of NetUnion's Salut guided self-help programs for Bulimia (Salut BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (Salut BED). Project manager on EU and national R&D projects. European R&D projects: - PlayMancer: A European Serious Gaming 3D Environment (FP7-215839) - INTACT: Individually Tailored Stepped Care for Women with Eating Disorders (MRTN-CT-2006-035988) - DiOGenes: Diet, Obesity, and Genes (FP6-513946) - ENABLED: Enhanced Network Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired (FP6-004778) - Active-Health: Active Environment for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (IST-2001-37857) - Agentcities.NET: TrustFoundry.Lausanne (IST-2000-28385) - CASENET: Computer-Aided solutions to SEcure electroNic commercE Transactions (IST-2001-32446) - Salut: Intelligent Environment for Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Eating Disorders (IST-2000-25026) - OCTANE: Open Contracting TransActions in the New Economy (IST-1999-20553) Other projects: - RISIKO: guided self-help program for pathological gambling - Pilot secured proposal submission for the Swiss National Science Foundation - Salut Chat: chat application for ADHD, autistic and Tourette syndrome patients in Sweden - Internal payment system for Salut applications - Firefox and Internet Explorer extensions for the Health On the Net Foundation


Education

lSIMA Clermont-Ferrand

Diplôme d'ingénieur (MS), Ingénierie du Logiciel (Software Engineering)

1998 - 2001

3 years 2 months


Licenses & certifications

Accessible Technology Design (Second Edition)

Issued: Nov 2024

Certified by European Accessibility Resource Centre

Certified DocuSign Administrator

Issued: Jun 2016

Certified by DocuSign

eSCM-SP (eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers) v2.0.2

Issued: Apr 2013

Certified by ITSqc, LLC

Portfolio

“Trajectoire 3D” - Urbanisation study on the use of 3D in the nuclear sector (Iteration #1) (2024)

MixWise Product Strategy (2023)

Service Management Optimization (2022)

Digital Employee Journey Roadmap (2021)

Design Strategy & Studio Management (2020-2022)

French Parliament App Redesign (2020)

Breakapp' by PPTE (2015)

Mobile Intranet MVP (2015)

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