Benoît Chabert
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Miami, FL, United States
Toptal member since December 2, 2015
Benoît has been creating digital apps for the past seven years. Since 2014, he has led product designs for startups—helping them create a unified design system and acquire new users. Benoît can do everything from low-fidelity prototypes and user flows to designing pixel-perfect layouts that adapt to any digital device.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Lead UX/UI Designer
Oblong Inc.
- Synthesized and participated in qualitative and quantitative user research. Shared insights with the rest of the team.
- Created an MVP that included slide decks and a landing page to help with fundraising. The MVP was a complete, interactive prototype turned into a video.
- Communicated frequently with the stakeholders and other team members to justify, show, and defend design decisions.
Senior eCommerce UX/UI Designer
Greendropship
- Designed a 2-sided dropshipping application with complex technical constraints.
- Built a design system to increase development productivity and output.
- Created clear workflows out of complex 3-sided transactions.
Lead Product Designer
ArtStation
- Acted as the product manager and lead product designer for the apps' development, leading a mobile development team of seven developers and two designers.
- 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.
Product Designer Advisor
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.
Freelance UX/UI Designer
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.
Interactive Developer
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).
Education
Master of Arts Degree in Interface Design
Laval University - Quebec, Canada
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Digital Creation
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue - Quebec, Canada
Technical Degree in Multimedia (Web Design and Front-end)
Maisonneuve College - Montreal, Canada
Certifications
Pragmatic Marketing
Pragmatic Institute
Skills
Tools
Figma, Photoshop, Axure, UXPin, Marvel, Mockups, InVision, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Sketch, Adobe After Effects Design, Adobe After Effects Design, Adobe InDesign, Sketch, Balsamiq, OmniGraffle Design, Flash, Prototype Design, Interface Builder, Flow, Prototype Design, Principle Design, UX Tools, UX Design
Languages
HTML5, CSS3, CSS, HTML, Swift
Platforms
WordPress Theme Design, Android Design, iOS Design, Shopify, OS X, Axure, MacOS, Mobile App Design
Industry Expertise
Life Insurance
Other
Interaction Design (IxD), Icon Design, Landing Page Design, Web UI, Dashboard Design, Dashboard, Web UX Design, User Flow Design, Animation Design, Data Visualization Design, Prototype Design, Visual Design, UX Design, UX Design, Web Design, Design, Mobile App, UI Design, UX Design, UI Design, Animated Prototypes, Squarespace Design, Wireframing, Illustration, Icon Design, Freelance Design, Responsive Web Design, Visual Identity Design, B2B Design, Enterprise SaaS, User Testing, User Research, Prototyping, Product Design, SaaS Design, Enterprise Design, Web App Design, Information Architecture, SaaS Design, Design Systems, UX Prototyping, UI Prototyping, UX Design, User Journeys, Lottie, User Stories, UX Design, MVP Design, UI Design, Mockups, UX Wireframes, Graphic Design, Mobile App Design, B2B2C, E-commerce Website Design, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C), Design Thinking, Digital Product Design, Mockups, Component Libraries, Mockups, Mobile App Design, Responsive Web Development, AI Design, Mobile App Design, Infographics, iOS Design, Branding, E-commerce UX Design, Design Leadership, Usability, Mobile App, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Mobile App Design, Mobile App Testing, Web Design, UI Design, UI Design, App UX, App UI, UX Design, Creativity, Sign-up Forms, Scroll Animations, Analytic Design, UI Design, UI Design, Product Management, Agile Development, UX Engineering, Communication Design, Digital Communication, Communication Design, Website Builders, Onboarding, User Onboarding, UX Design, Data Flows, Research, UX Research, UI Design, Data Research, Quantitative User Research, Qualitative Research, UI Design, Rapid Prototyping, Remote Prototyping, Mobile Web Design, iOS Design, SVG Animation, Text Animation, UI Design, UI Design, Prototype Design, Health Insurance, Web Dashboards, Analytics Development, UX Design, Data, DataViz, Data-informed Visual Design, Web Notifications, Notification Center, User Experience Design, User Experience Strategy, UX Review, UX Design, UX Design, UX Design, UX Thinking, UIKit, User, User Paths, UI Design, Interface Testing
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