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Doriane Le Rest
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
With over 10 years of design industry experience, Doriane is a French designer with a master's degree in Product Design at L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique and an Interaction Design Specialization from UC San Diego. She moved to London, where she started as a product designer for several brand agencies to finally get promoted to head of design and run a full team. Doriane now lives in Stockholm, Sweden, where she worked for startups before integrating one of the worldwide textile leaders.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Product Designer | UX/UI Consultant
Independant
- Gathered and evaluated user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers.
- Illustrated design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps.
- Designed graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets.
- Built page navigation buttons and search fields.
- Developed UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like.
- Created original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches, and tables).
- Prepared and presented rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders.
- Identified and troubleshot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness).
- Conducted layout adjustments based on user feedback.
- Adhered to style standards on fonts, colors, and images.
Head of Design
Xcel Bespoke
- Worked for clients such as Just Eat, Bacardi, Heineken, Benefit, Beiersdorf, Dunlop-Goodyear, KMI, Coty, TTI, Estee Lauder, etc.
- Managed the design team and freelancers as required and helping develop the team.
- Influenced design led thinking across the business.
- Led concept development in relation to design and creative outputs.
- Took a lead role in managing the design and creative elements of projects and became a point of contact for clients brand and creative projects.
- Developed creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives of the organization and that advance the brand and proposition strategy.
- Ensured that design and creative projects are delivered on time and to budget ensuring commercial success.
- Worked with internal teams to generate ideas for pitching and proposals.
- Provided quality control over design outputs and production.
- Established and developed best practice with the design and creative team.
- Communicated with our audience, positioning of ClientsFirst’s design and creative capability.
Senior Brand Designer
Supremia International
- Worked for important clients such as Unilever (Dove, Axe), COTY (Chloe, Playboy, Lancaster), P&G (Max Factor X, Head & Shoulders, Aussie), YR ( incl. Stanhome), ABI (Jupiler, Becks), etc.
- Kept up with the latest industry knowledge, trends, and ideas and transformed them into promotional products reflecting brand values.
- Created mood boards and graphic images developed at the onset to better illustrate the ideas.
- Developed designs and innovative products by using varied resources and tools including 3D modeling and CAD, professional photo studio, packaging design, prototyping, and concept presentations.
- Completed technical drawings for samplings.
Product Designer
Xcel Concepts
- Worked for clients such as Bacardi, Heineken, Benefit, Beiersdorf, Dunlop-Goodyear, KMI, Coty, TTI, etc.
- Adapted the creativity to different brands with different universes on versatile projects including graphic, product, and fashion design. Work based on pure custom items answering specific client expectations.
- Created new product lines for some new business, from brand guidelines to products in their own packaging.
- Created artwork presentations with the aim to get new clients and present a decent image of the company business.
- Worked with quality on different projects at the same time with very short deadlines.
- Contributed to the branding and customization of existing merchandise.
- Created technical drawings for samplings.
- Monitored design projects with factories.
Product Designer
Group Seb - Tefal
- Designed cookware and bakeware.
- Worked on projects for Jamie Oliver (UK), Emeril (US), Tefal & T-Fal (International), Moulinex (France), and Korkmaz (Turkey).
- Contributed to design strategy, ergonomics, user studies, project and business management, drawing, sketching, and modeling.
- Developed a new tea and coffee sets range for the Turkish market.
Designer
Cotérue
- Created work based on two furniture lines and a sofa kit.
- Met with clients.
- Monitored construction sites.
Education
Master's Degree in Product Design
L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique - Nantes, France
Certifications
Responsive Website Basics: Code with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
University of London
Designing, Running, and Analyzing Experiments
University of California San Diego
Input and Interaction
University of California San Diego
Information Design
University of California San Diego
Social Computing
University of California San Diego
User Experience: Research & Prototyping
University of California San Diego
Interaction Design
University of California San Diego
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