Amélie Lamont

Designer in New York, NY, United States

Member since April 5, 2019

Amélie is an independent product designer, writer, and UX teacher based in New York with more than ten years of experience. She specializes in using research to drive design decisions, design systems and running design sprints. Her past clients include Google, Slack, L'Oréàl, Penguin Group, and Universal McCann.

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Digital Design

The New York Times: User Hub
- UX Design
- Information Architecture (IA)
- UI Components
- Git
- Pencil Sketches
- News
- Media
- Publishing
- Design Systems
The New York Times: CP Design System
- Design Systems
- UI Design
- Accessibility
- Sketch
- Git
- GitHub
- Business Logic
- News
- Media
- Publishing
The New York Times: Missing Paper
- UX Flows
- Business Logic
- Design Systems
- Media
- News
- Publishing
- UX Design
- UI Design
The New York Times: Cancel Online
- UI Design
- Design Systems
- UX Design
- Business Logic
- Media
- News
- Publishing
Sexual Health Innovations: Callisto
- UX Design
- User Flows
- Research
- UI Design
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- User Experience (UX)
- Education
- Social Good
- Sexual Assault
- Sketch
- Git
- GitHub
- Branding
- Accessible Design
- Writing & Editing
VenueBook: Redesign
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Brand Design
- Brand Guidelines
- Website Redesigns
- User Research
- Quantitative Research
- Qualitative Research
- User Interviews
- Marketing Design
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Information Architecture (IA)
- Events
- Event Planning
- SaaS
- Two-sided Marketplaces

Employment

Independent Product Designer
2004 - PRESENT
Self-employed
- Facilitated deep discussions and conversations about design’s impact on culture and society via interviews, writing, speaking, mentoring, teaching, and consulting.
- Coached collaborators to better understand their customer’s needs through user and market research.
- Implemented data-tracking tools that help collaborators track business metrics and compare them against goals.
- Designed user-friendly and mobile-first websites and applications using an end-to-end product design approach.
Technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Git, Middleman, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Sketch, Figma
Product Designer
2018 - 2019
thoughtbot
- Managed client relationships and expectations by providing solutions that both benefit the client and their users. Clients included early-stage startups, all the way to established companies.
- Acted as an authoritative voice that provided product and design suggestions to clients, as needed. This included, if appropriate, research, testing, design sprints, front-end development, product management, and product thinking .
Technologies: Git, Middleman, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Sketch, Figma
Design Mentor
2017 - 2019
Bloc, Thinkful
- Contributed to the Bloc and Thinkful design curriculum.
- Met with design mentees regularly to provide career guidance and curriculum feedback.
- Provided portfolio reviews and reviewed design assignments for quality and clarity.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, InVision, Sketch
Design Mentor | Teacher
2014 - 2018
Startup Institute
- Contributed to the Startup Institute design and front-end development curriculum.
- Taught students completely new to tech, the basics of front-end development (HTML and CSS).
- Conducted career sessions outside of school hours for students to book.
- Voted top design mentor three sessions in a row.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, InVision, Sketch
Product Design Lead
2016 - 2017
The New York Times
- Acted as the design lead of User Hub, a large, specialty, cross-functional team that shipped features that cultivate a better relationship for subscribers of the Times.
- Managed and led initiatives for at least five projects (since August 2016), including the customer product design system, suspend delivery, report missing paper, cancel online, and the billing UX.
- Created and managed the customer product design system.
Technologies: Zeplin, Figma, Git, InVision, Sketch
Product Designer
2015 - 2016
VenueBook
- Redesigned the VenueBook brand and product creating a cohesive user experience that resulted in a more than 250% increase in venue bookings.
- Conducted research and user interviews to influence VenueBook’s business decisions with market data.
Technologies: Sketch

Education

Master's degree in Design, Research, Writing and Criticism
2020 - 2021
School of Visual Arts - New York, New York
Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies
2016 - 2020
SUNY Empire State College - Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

Experience

Web Design15 years
Protoyping15 years
UX Design15 years
MacOS15 years
Wireframing12 years
iOS12 years
User Research12 years
Design Systems4 years

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