Thomas Buisson, Designer in Tokyo, Japan
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Thomas Buisson

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Bio

Highly organized, hard-working, and self-motivated, Thomas is endowed with a true intrapreneur mindset. He has experience on the strategic design side of things and scaling a team while continuing hands-on owning the whole UX/UI process. He wants to pursue his career working on exciting digital projects that positively impact our generation and the next ones.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Product Designer and UX Researcher

2021 - PRESENT
Synspective
  • Designed vertical solutions showing measurement of land displacement and floods.
  • Delivered a new B2C proposition approach and led the required research to validate it.
  • Supported the product management of internal solutions enabling marketing to highlight use cases and customers services engineers to generate the materials they needed to deliver their analysis to clients faster.
Technologies: Figma, Miro, Asana

Senior Product Designer

2020 - 2021
Mind Gym
  • Built rapid prototypes to support two batches of user testing sessions to validate the MVP.
  • Designed flows, templates, and components to support the MVP experience.
  • Defined iterations to transit from an existing alpha version to the new approach validated by user testing and followed implementation.
Technologies: Figma, Miro

Chief Experience Officer

2019 - 2020
YurOn
  • Created high-fidelity prototypes that helped validate the value proposition with tests on real users and raised money at the raw beginning by showing the intended product to investors.
  • Launched and managed the YurOn lab to facilitate strategic decision making based on data (metrics and user feedback).
  • Oversaw all the experience and design, including animated workshops, mapping experience, design system, and managing assets on Zeplin.
  • Owned the delivery and implementation of new projects and features, such as MVP, new features implementation, and website.
Technologies: Sketch, Overflow, Zeplin, Adobe After Effects, UXPin

Head of UX

2016 - 2019
WeSwap.com
  • Evangelized a cross-service user-centric approach based on service design thinking rules and kickstarted a culture of experimentation.
  • Led the UX process from research to validation through user testing.
  • Oversaw customer discovery to anticipate user needs and help strategic decision making, including personas, surveys, and user interviews.
  • Owned the delivery and implementation of new projects and features.
Technologies: Axure, Sketch, Lookback, Usertesting.com, UsabilityHub, InVision, UXPin

Senior UX Designer

2015 - 2016
MSL
  • Managed the UX team for a few months after the head of UX resigned.
  • Led the UX on RSA corporate website redesign, including content audit, information architecture, user journey, and sketching.
  • Led the UX on Centrica campaign microsite, including user flows, wireframing, and prototyping.
Technologies: OmniGraffle, Axure

Junior-Midweight UX Designer

2012 - 2015
Freelance
  • Conducted UX research and design for an internal tool for HSBC to onboard users more efficiently.
  • Led the UX on an internal tool for Google to improve consistency in the way shops sell their products.
  • Created the user flows and wireframes for a controller made to control the 3M environment when receiving potential clients.
  • Performed storyboarding and wireframing for TouchTable (Gene U).
Technologies: Axure, OmniGraffle, Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC

Education

2009 - 2011

Master's Degree in Interface Design

University Sorbonne Paris Nord - Paris, France

2008 - 2009

Bachelor's Degree in Web Design

Human and Social Sciences University - Limoges, France

Skills

Tools

Sketch, Figma, ProtoPie, InVision, UXPin, Axure RP Pro, UsabilityHub, OmniGraffle, Zeplin, Miro, Adobe After Effects, Lookback, Usertesting.com, Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Trello, Asana

Platforms

Axure, UXPressia

Industry Expertise

Marketing, Fashion

Other

UX Design, UX Research, Rapid Prototyping, User Testing, Apps, Product Design, Fintech, Remote User Testing, Wireframing, Websites, Customer Journeys, User Feedback, Data-driven Design, User Research, User Validation Testing, Sitemaps, MVP Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Annotated Wireframes, User Flows, Remote Work, Content Mapping, Prototyping, Overflow, UI Design, Management, Intranets, Branding, Visual Identity, Social Media, Videos, User Needs, Design Patterns, Styled-components, Atomic Design

Experience

  • UX Design - 9 years
  • User Testing - 6 years
  • UX Research - 6 years
  • ProtoPie - 5 years
  • Sketch - 5 years
  • Product Design - 5 years
  • UI Design - 4 years
  • Figma - 2 years

Tools

  • Sketch
  • Figma
  • ProtoPie
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