Benoît Chabert

Designer

Los Angeles, CA, United States

Member since November 23, 2015

Benoît Chabert has been creating digital apps for the past seven years. Since 2014, he has been leading product designs for startups—helping them create a unified design system and acquire new users. Benoît can do everything from low-fidelity prototypes, user flows to designing pixel-perfect layouts that adapt to any digital device.

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Portfolio

Properkeys
- UX Design
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- UI Design
- App Design
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Usability
- Visual Design
- Icon Design
- Iconography
- Apps
- Mobile UI
- Mobile App UX
- Mobile App UI
- Mobile App Design
- Mobile App Testing
- iOS UI Design
WorkRamp
- Dashboards
- Dashboard Design
- Analytic Design
- Web App UI
- App UI
- Complex Application User Interfaces (UI)
- Data Visualization
Coder Factory
- Creativity
- Landing Page Design
- Web UI
- Sign-up Forms
- Iconography
- Animation
- Scroll Animations
Accompany.io
- Dashboard Design
- Dashboards
- App UX
- App UI
- Web UI
- Web UX
- Web App UX
- User Flows
AllHere
- Landing Page Design
- Websites
- Web UI
- Responsive UI
- Responsive Web Design (RWD)
- UI Branding
Radialpoint
STORM
W.illi.am
ArtStation

Employment

Lead Product Designer
2015 - 2017
ArtStation
- Led the product redesign and art direction of the platform; including mobile apps.
- Communicated weekly with artists and conducted user interviews for UX research.
- Performed comparative analysis with other websites in the entertainment industry for UI research.
- Helped with product strategy by putting forward principles of design.
- Gave conferences to aspiring artists and professional artists.
Technologies: InVision, Photoshop, Balsamiq, OmniGraffle, Sketch, Illustrator, Affinity Designer
Product Designer Advisor
2014 - 2015
Coveo
- Helped with a major product redesign (web based products, admins, and interfaces).
- Aided marketing efforts including online communities, documentations and website.
- Led professional services UX/UI design on projects involving companies like Go Pro, Microsoft, L'oreal.
- Established common UX/UI guidelines for various products.
- Led R&D design for future concepts, improvements, and new product ideas.
Technologies: Balsamiq, Sketch, Axure, Affinity Designer, Photoshop, Illustrator
Freelance UX/UI Designer
2014 - 2014
Government of Quebec
- Designed and led the content strategy and information architecture efforts. Redesigned the entire products sitemaps and established a cohesive content strategy.
- Led user research and user experience efforts to gather information to lead further design decisions. Conducted user interviews, user surveys, and shadowing techniques.
- Established user interface guidelines in order to managed user interface deliverables. These could be also used for their other products.
- Produced twice as much of a previous version in a 140 page book of recommendations, patterns, and user research results as a guideline elaborating our design strategy.
- Consulted on future products and initiatives.
- Provided recommendations on existing products and offered modern solutions.
Technologies: Balsamiq, Sketch, Axure, Affinity Designer, Photoshop, Illustrator
Interactive Developer
2011 - 2013
lg2
- Developed animated online ad campaigns for various clients.
- Created marketing websites and microsites for clients in various industries.
- Helped with interactive apps and installations for advertising purposes.
- Conducted R&D for future campaigns, concepts, and pitches.
- Helped sporadically with small internal initiatives (internal tools).
Technologies: Photoshop, Flash, After Effects, HTML/CSS

Other Experience

Why Startups Need a Styleguide (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/ux/why-startups-need-a-styleguide
The top five reasons why creating a styleguide early is especially important for startups in spite of the inherent challenges.

Education

Master of Arts degree in Interface Design
2013 - 2014
Laval University - Quebec, Canada
Bachelor of Arts degree in Digital Creation
2011 - 2013
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue - Quebec, Canada
Technical degree in Multimedia (Web Design and Front-end)
2008 - 2011
Maisonneuve College - Montreal, Canada

Experience

Illustration6 years
Web Design6 years
Visual Design6 years
User Interface (UI)6 years
UI Design6 years
Design6 years
Wireframing3 years
App Design3 years