I’m Nicolas Ménard, a Senior Product Designer designing data-intensive products across energy, mobility, and autonomous robotics. I combine user research and interaction design with design systems and hands-on front-end implementation, so the work translates cleanly from discovery to shipped UI—especially in B2B2C and regulated environments. Over the past decade, I’ve led multidisciplinary teams, including four designers at EF Education First, and helped build and scale component libraries that teams actually use. Most recently, I redesigned and built multiple connected product surfaces in a client codebase, making data availability explicit and creating token-driven documentation to preserve design decisions during AI-assisted development.…

Nicolas Ménard

I’m Nicolas Ménard, a Senior Product Designer designing data-intensive products across energy, mobility, and autonomous robotics. I combine user research and interaction design with design systems and hands-on front-end implementation, so the work translates cleanly from discovery to shipped UI—especially in B2B2C and regulated environments. Over the past decade, I’ve led multidisciplinary teams, including four designers at EF Education First, and helped build and scale component libraries that teams actually use. Most recently, I redesigned and built multiple connected product surfaces in a client codebase, making data availability explicit and creating token-driven documentation to preserve design decisions during AI-assisted development.…

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I’m Nicolas Ménard, a Senior Product Designer designing data-intensive products across energy, mobility, and autonomous robotics. I combine user research and interaction design with design systems and hands-on front-end implementation, so the work translates cleanly from discovery to shipped UI—especially in B2B2C and regulated environments.

Over the past decade, I’ve led multidisciplinary teams, including four designers at EF Education First, and helped build and scale component libraries that teams actually use. Most recently, I redesigned and built multiple connected product surfaces in a client codebase, making data availability explicit and creating token-driven documentation to preserve design decisions during AI-assisted development.

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Language

English
Fluent
French
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Product Designer - Independent at Yutugy
January 1, 2025 - Present
Redesigned and built five connected product surfaces in six weeks directly in the client’s codebase. Made energy-dashboard data availability explicit by distinguishing published, estimated, and unavailable values. Created automated checks to preserve agreed design decisions during AI-assisted implementation. Built DESIGN.md as a three-layer token system connecting Figma variables and JSON tokens to CSS custom properties and a React/TypeScript component library.
Senior Product Designer - Yutugy at Independent
January 1, 2025 - Present
Redesigned and built five connected product surfaces in six weeks directly in the client’s codebase; shipped a live version. Made data availability explicit on the energy dashboard by distinguishing published, estimated, and unavailable values. Created automated checks to preserve agreed design decisions during AI-assisted implementation. Started building DESIGN.md as a three-layer token system connecting Figma, JSON tokens, CSS custom properties, and a React/TypeScript component library.
UX Lead at EF Education First
January 1, 2023 - April 1, 2025
Led four designers on Backpack, EF’s design system, and helped ship 12 Figma and React components adopted across seven EF products. Owned the mobile-first redesign of EF.com’s global navigation, tested it across five European markets, and incorporated improvements back into Backpack. Documented component usage, states, responsive behavior, and accessibility; prioritized change requests and communicated design decisions to product teams.
Lead User Researcher (Contract) at Electromaps
August 1, 2022 - October 1, 2022
Led a three-person research team studying EV charging across multiple countries through interviews and surveys. Identified charger availability and pricing transparency as key issues and translated insights into user flows. Remotely tested prototypes; used findings to inform feature prioritization and presented recommendations to leadership and the wider organization.
UX Designer (Contract) at LightOn / Muse.AI
April 1, 2022 - July 1, 2022
Contributed to a responsive website redesign and API documentation intended for non-technical users.
UX Instructor (Contract) at Talent Garden / KEA
March 1, 2022 - December 1, 2021
Taught user research and usability testing in Copenhagen.
User Researcher (Contract) at Allianz Technology
February 1, 2022 - March 1, 2022
Led the French portion of a global research program in a regulated insurance environment, interviewing employees and running usability tests. Presented findings to leadership and facilitated workshops to align on which workflows to improve first.
Senior UX Designer (Contract) at BlackWood Seven | Kantar
February 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023
Worked on a marketing modelling platform for attribution, optimisation, and scenario planning. Interviewed expert marketing users and designed wireframes, prototypes, and dashboards that translate statistical model outputs into decision-making tools. Collaborated with data scientists, product management, and developers on trade-offs; designed in-app onboarding and evaluated new patterns against WCAG 1/2.
UX Designer at Stanley Robotics
November 1, 2015 - March 31, 2020
Joined as the fifth employee with end-to-end UX responsibility across booking, kiosks, car handoff, and robot supervision interfaces. Supported deployment of a valet-parking service at Paris CDG, Lyon, and London Gatwick (parking ~200 cars/day). Built a design system, ran workshops with parking operators, defined UX acceptance criteria for engineering, and studied the service with people with reduced mobility to improve the customer journey.
UX Researcher & Designer at Stanley Robotics
November 1, 2015 - March 1, 2020
Joined as the fifth employee with end-to-end UX responsibility across booking, kiosks, car handoff, and robot supervision interfaces. The valet-parking service was deployed at Paris CDG, Lyon, and London Gatwick, parking around 200 cars per day. Built a design system, ran workshops with parking operators, defined UX acceptance criteria for engineering, and studied the service with people with reduced mobility to improve the customer journey.
UX Researcher & Designer at Barry Energy
November 1, 2015 - March 1, 2020
Investigated support tickets and interviewed customers in France; fixes to invoicing and pricing explanations reduced support tickets by 52% in three months. Built a customer research community of 600+ and designed dynamic-pricing and consumption screens for the electricity app.

Education

Master's in UX Design at L'École Multimédia
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016
Bachelor's in Multimedia (Experience Design) at IESA
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2014
Master's in UX Design at L'École Multimédia
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016
Bachelor's in Multimedia (Experience Design) at IESA
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2014

Qualifications

Data-Driven Design: Quantitative Research for UX Interaction Design (Foundation)
July 1, 2025 - September 23, 2026

Industry Experience

Energy & Utilities, Transportation & Logistics, Software & Internet, Education, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services

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