Maria Nehmé, Designer in Paris, France
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Maria Nehmé

Verified Expert  in Design

Designer

Location
Paris, France
Toptal Member Since
August 12, 2020

After spending four years as an art director, Maria chose to specialize in products and worked for two years in a startup as the first and only product designer. She now works part-time as a head of product in an HR company based in Paris, helping HR and management teams enhance their teams' career paths. Also freelance, Maria helps companies develop their MVPs or improve products while using the design thinking process throughout, from user research to prototyping and workshop facilitation.

Art DirectionUser Interface (UI)SketchUser Experience (UX)Design SystemsUX FlowsProduct DesignWireframingPhotoshop CCAdobe IllustratorZeplinWeb DesignUX DesignMVP DesignUser Flows

Portfolio

Work Experience

Head of Product

2020 - PRESENT
Empowill
  • Built a design system including fonts, icons, and components (buttons, inputs, charts, layouts, tables, popups).
  • Made some design improvements on the website to align it with the new vision and strategy (fonts, illustrations, website architecture).
  • Conducted various design workshops using the design thinking process to address specific problems and generate solutions (opportunity solution trees, Crazy Eights, How Might We (HMW), and solution sketching).
  • Took part in the design strategy and roadmap, prioritizing the features and improvements based on data, user interviews, and the founder's long-term vision.
  • Hired a new team member and managed her throughout her first experience in a company.
  • Built a whole new version of our product with a much more powerful technical stack and a lot of user feedback and data.
Technologies: Design Strategy, Design Workshops, User Testing, User Research, Prototyping, Bubble, Figma

Freelance Product Designer

2020 - PRESENT
Twine Labs
  • Teamed with designers and engineers to build a design component library in order to simplify the team's work and make it more efficient, adding consistency to the product.
  • Conducted user tests on many existing and new features and made improvements based on the results.
  • Created user flows for new features based on user interviews and gathered data.
Technologies: User Research, Prototyping, Design Systems, Miro, Figma

Product Designer

2021 - 2022
Front
  • Worked with product managers and engineers in the workflow team to help improve and enhance the workflow experience for users.
  • Researched customer needs in relation to the company's user management in order to design and build the right user management features.
  • Designed improvements for the new analytics tool based on user feedback.
Technologies: Figma

Product Designer

2018 - 2020
Supermood
  • Designed the company's first design system and assisted the developers in its implementation.
  • Organized and facilitated many design sprints and workshops to solve problems.
  • Conducted various interviews with our users and potential users to get feedback and refine our existing personas.
  • Helped improve the user experience of the product as well as the visual design.
Technologies: Product Design, UX Flows, Sketch, User Interface (UI), Zeplin, Figma, InVision

Art Director

2014 - 2017
Rosa Paris
  • Designed an emoji library for Monoprix, one of the leading French retail stores. It was ranked first in the sticker category of the App Store.
  • Created a film that won a competition and helped us sign with a new client—Kalenji, part of the Decathlon group.
  • Worked closely with photographers, illustrators, and movie directors on various advertising campaigns.
Technologies: Photoshop CC, Branding, Art Direction, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
2018 - 2018

Bootcamp in UX/UI Design

Ironhack - Ironhack.com

2009 - 2013

Master's Degree in Visual and Digital Communication

Ecole de Communication Visuelle - Paris, France

2008 - 2009

Preparatory Year in Applied Arts

Penninghen - Paris, France

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