France

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Product Design

DesignOps Assembly

GOBELINS Paris

Nicolas Chatelain

DesignOps Lead

Communication

Collaboration

Empathy

Team player

Trello

Zeplin

Figma

Miro

Within the Sanofi Accelerator, member of the Consumer Experience (CX) Design System pod.

• Team of 1 PO, 4 DEV, 1 Lead Tech, 1 Lead Design & me.
• Objective to create the global Design System, from scratch.
• Design/Dev collaboration via Hot Potato Process.
• Tokens & multi-branding.
• DesignOps topics: design acculturation, DS awareness, creation of an internal community...

Chapter Lead Paris with my buddy Gregory @Thales

Member of the Design OPS team for Orange France.


Design System Lead for the TV universe
• Creation of the governance and exchange rituals with my adopters.
• Establishment of the contribution process and communication channels.
• Establishment of the ways of designing.
• Migration from Sketch + Zeplin to Figma.
• Accompaniment of the hand-off process on Figma.
• Creation of code review rituals with DEV profiles (Finland & France).
• 75+ components created.
• 100k inserts in 3 months.

Design System Designer for Orange brand / Sosh brand / Business & in-house tools
• Animation of weekly meetings for the 100 designers of the Experience & Interfaces Department.
• Daily support and coaching of the designers on the new internal tool Figma.
• Accessibility project within the Design System: empathy lab.
• 2M inserts & 0.16% detach in 6 months.
• 220+ designers adopters.

Community Builder
• Search and interview external speakers in front of an audience of 80+ (designers, lead design, managers).
• Creation & animation of community events.

Organization of design events to contribute to the French collective intelligence:

• Creation of a team of 8 volunteer organizers.
• Constitution of contribution processes within the team.
• Monthly aperitif, workshop, conference & panel discussion.
• Principles of accessibility and openness whatever the level and the appetence of the participants.
• Relational with hosts and speakers.
• Ambition to co-construct with other communities for the good of all.

As part of the Design System core team @Thales Digital Factory :

• Understanding of frictions, behavior and user needs, through qualitative and quantitative research - interview facilitation, usability testing, co-creation workshops...
• Enrichment and iteration of the Design System based on Figma.
• UI creation of components - atomic design - and associated tokens for the DEV team.
• Awareness of the contribution of UX methods and federating teams around the use of a Design System.
• Enrichment of the Design System documentation - Zeroheight and Storybook.
• Animation of pilot projects and of the Guild on an international scale.
• Regular reporting of progress to stakeholders and various actors.

I remain with a strong UX sensibility and I am passionate about DesOps and collective intelligence design.

• Management of 2 junior profiles.
• Technical manager of TV and radio arrivals in multiples areas - Africa, France, Caribbean, Indian Ocean.
• Relation with the different editor contacts (Disney, OCS...) and operators.
• Preventive and curative maintenance support on the entire production chain.
• Responsible during 24/7 on-call weeks: in charge of B2B incident tickets and emergencies.
• Contact with Canadian and American international manufacturers.

Nicolas Chatelain🇫🇷