Maria Nehmé
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
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.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Head of Product
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.
Freelance Product Designer
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.
Product Designer
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.
Product Designer
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.
Art Director
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.
Education
Bootcamp in UX/UI Design
Ironhack - Ironhack.com
Master's Degree in Visual and Digital Communication
Ecole de Communication Visuelle - Paris, France
Preparatory Year in Applied Arts
Penninghen - Paris, France
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator, Zeplin, Adobe InDesign, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Miro, Bubble, Jira, Slack
Platforms
Figma, Productboard
Industry Expertise
Advertising, Fine Arts, Technology, Retail & Wholesale
Other
User Interface (UI), Art Direction, Web Design, User Experience (UX), Workshop Facilitation, Prototyping, Design, Design Systems, Branding, UX Flows, Product Design, Wireframing, UX Design, MVP Design, Landing Page Design, User Flows, Visual Design, Product Management, UX Research, Graphic Design, Typography, Drawing, Digital Communication, Illustration, UI Design, Ideation Workshops, Mobile Design, Facilitation, SaaS, B2B, Mobile UI, SaaS Design, CRM Design, Emojis & Emoticons, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Responsive UI, Environment, Ecology, UX Prototyping, Personas, Abstracts, Research, User Onboarding, Redesign, Apps, Sticker Design, App Store, User Research, User Testing, Design Workshops, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Design Leadership
Experience
- Design - 6 years
- Art Direction - 4 years
- Product Design - 2 years
- Wireframing - 2 years
- Design Systems - 2 years
- User Interface (UI) - 2 years
- User Experience (UX) - 2 years
- Prototyping - 2 years
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