Cristian Esanu, Designer in Paris, France
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Cristian Esanu

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Designer

Location
Paris, France
Toptal Member Since
December 13, 2022

Cristian is a Paris-based designer with seven years of experience focusing on digital product design and art direction. His creative work aims to create thoughtful, memorable, and beautiful solutions. Cristian has been fortunate enough to collaborate with an array of brands from diverse domains, such as social, community, fashion, and lifestyle. He is a curious person, always up for new challenges.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Senior Product Designer

2023 - 2023
Vestiaire Collective
  • Ran stakeholder workshops and creative brainstorms.
  • Communicated research findings, conceptual ideas, and design rationale verbally and visually.
  • Mentored and led junior designers on their projects.
  • Translated research, data, business goals, and technical constraints into thoughtful design solutions.
  • Designed the app and web experience, maintaining a consistent design system usage and ensuring it evolves.
Technologies: Figma, Usertesting.com, Origami, eCommerce, Marketplaces, Material UI, Product Benchmarking, Mobile App Design, Workshop Facilitation

Product Designer

2019 - 2022
Vestiaire Collective
  • Ensured consistency of the design system on all media, maintaining it and constantly evolving it.
  • Participated in a product's definition, conception, and creation, providing extensive rationale around my design decisions.
  • Created user journeys and identified pain points to develop product improvement recommendations.
  • Created and adapted deliverables for iOS, Android, and a web platform.
  • Elaborated high-fidelity interactive prototypes for testing and presentation purposes.
  • Conducted moderated and unmoderated user tests, wrote test scenarios and screeners and analyzed their results.
Technologies: Figma, Usertesting.com, Origami, Dovetail, Sketch, User Experience (UX), Wireframing, Web App UI, Responsive Web Apps, Web App UX, Layout, Interaction Design (IxD), Mobile, iOS, App UI, App Design, Mobile First, iOS Animations, Consumer Products, eCommerce, Marketplaces, Material UI, Product Benchmarking, Mobile App Design, Workshop Facilitation

Product Designer

2018 - 2019
Playgrnd
  • Defined content architecture and designed mobile and web interfaces.
  • Contributed to user research, UX workshops, and usability tests.
  • Designed wireframes, prototypes, and user interface specifications.
  • Presented and justified choices to stakeholders and a design team.
Technologies: Sketch, Photoshop CC, Figma, User Experience (UX), Wireframing, Web App UI, Responsive Web Apps, Web App UX, B2B, Layout, Interaction Design (IxD), Mobile, iOS, App UI, App Design, Mobile First, Consumer Products, Product Benchmarking, Mobile App Design

Visual and Product Designer

2016 - 2018
FloAgency
  • Built websites while enhancing the user experience and designing branding and marketing materials based on clients' needs.
  • Designed visual experiences by merging them with market insights to make the interaction meaningful, valuable, and easy to use.
  • Defined visual and creative direction of selected projects and premium WordPress themes.
  • Collaborated with a development team, project managers, and other designers.
  • Presented projects with a detailed justification of each solution.
Technologies: Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Sketch, InVision, Wireframing, Web App UI, Responsive Web Apps, Web App UX, B2B, Layout, Interaction Design (IxD), App UI, Mobile First, iOS Animations, eCommerce, Product Benchmarking, Mobile App Design

UX/UI Designer

2014 - 2015
Freelance
  • Designed responsive web pages for local and international clients, such as Survata and Ascend Financial.
  • Created marketing assets and print materials for community events.
  • Improved the user experience and existing features for selected products.
Technologies: Photoshop CC, Sketch, Figma, User Experience (UX), Product Benchmarking
2018 - 2019

Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction

University of Paris-Saclay - Paris, France

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