Cristian Esanu
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
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
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.
Product Designer
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.
Product Designer
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.
Visual and Product Designer
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.
UX/UI Designer
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.
Education
Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction
University of Paris-Saclay - Paris, France
Skills
Tools
Figma, Usertesting.com, Photoshop CC, Maze, Sketch, Adobe CC, Adobe Creative Suite, Origami, Illustrator CC, InVision
Platforms
Web, Mobile, iOS, Dovetail, WordPress
Industry Expertise
Technology, Consumer Products, Hospitality
Other
Prototyping, User Flows, Mobile UI, Websites, Product Design, Digital Product Design, Responsive UI, Visual Design, Responsive, Responsive Layout, Web UX Design, Mockups, Landing Page Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), UX Audits, Apps, Mobile Prototypes, UX Wireframes, User Experience (UX), Web UX, Wireframing, Mobile Design, Collaboration, UX Principles, Layout, App UI, App Design, Product Benchmarking, UX Design, UX Research, UX Strategy, Usability Heuristics, User Research, Product Branding, eCommerce UI, Branding, Style Kits, Web Layout, Web Design, Information Architecture (IA), Web UI, Web App Design, Logo Design, Brand Design, Web UI Design, UI Design, Logotype, Brand Identity, Photography, System Design, Atomic Design, Microinteractions, User Interviews, User Interface (UI), User Experience Design, Design Systems, Landing Pages, eCommerce, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), User Journeys, Mobile UX, Design Strategy, Icon Design, Iconography, User Testing, Design Guidelines, Web App UI, Responsive Web Apps, Web App UX, Style Guides, Typography, Interaction Design (IxD), Mobile First, iOS Animations, Marketplaces, Material UI, Mobile App Design, Workshop Facilitation, Programming, Art Direction, Social Networks, Identity, Event Planning, Interactive UI, Custom CMS Development, B2B
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