Thomas Buisson
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Paris, France
Toptal member since April 8, 2021
Highly organized, hard-working, and self-motivated, Thomas possesses a true intrapreneurial mindset. He has experience on the strategic design side and in scaling a team while continuing to own the entire UI/UX process. Thomas wants to pursue a career working on exciting digital projects that positively impact our generation and future generations.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Designer
Palantir
- Redesigned a mission-critical analytics workflow, reducing the time analysts needed to synthesize multi-source data and reach operational decisions by 35%.
- Built and scaled a cross-product design system adopted by multiple teams, improving UI consistency, accelerating feature delivery, and reducing UX debt across the platform.
- Led the design of a data investigation interface for non-technical users, increasing product adoption and enabling business teams to work with complex datasets without constant engineering support.
Senior Product Designer
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.
Chief Experience Officer
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.
Head of UX
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.
Senior UX Designer
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.
Junior-Midweight UX Designer
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).
Education
Master's Degree in Interface Design
University Sorbonne Paris Nord - Paris, France
Bachelor's Degree in Web Design
Human and Social Sciences University - Limoges, France
Skills
Tools
Sketch, ProtoPie, InVision, UXPin, Axure RP Pro, UsabilityHub, OmniGraffle, Zeplin, Miro, Adobe After Effects, Lookback, Usertesting.com, Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Trello, Asana
Platforms
Figma, 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 Journey, User Feedback, Data-driven Design, User Research, User Validation, 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, Planning
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
- ProtoPie
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