Pauline Thomas

INTERACTION DESIGN - INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE - BRAND IDENTITY

Expressing the brand through the design process My book video, blogs, photograph works, books: http://www.paulinealapage.com

Resume

1 Benchmark and develop strategic online brand experience recommendations
2 Designing creative ideas for online campaigns and for an original information access
3 Creating and conducting UI design briefs, functional specifications
4 Developing fully designed documents for editorial, design, marketing, technical and communication teams
5 Prototyping story-boards, navigation process through information architecture, user personas and ergonomy principles
6 Collaborating with creative, editorial, marketing and technical teams to ensure that web designs meet both client and end user needs
7 Designing graphic interfaces
8 Managing technical and webdesign teams
9 Preparing specifications for usability tests
10 Analysing statistics to improve the new version

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EXPERIENCE
ORANGE/FT GROUP Design & User experience Team
INTERACTION DESIGNER, INFORMATION ARCHITECT, GRAPHIC DESIGNER,

UZIK.COM, WEB AGENCY
LEAD INTERACTION DESIGNER – PROJECT MANAGER
Permanent from march 2008

1 Benchmarking to write the strategic brand experience recommendations
2 Creating and conducting UI design briefs, functional specifications
3 Developing fully designed documents for editorial, design, marketing, technical and communication teams
4 Prototyping story-boards, navigation process through information architecture, users scenarii and ergonomy principles
5 Collaborating with creative, editorial, marketing and technical teams to ensure that web designs meet both client and end user needs

>Perrier-Jouët Champagne, France 3 Culture box (editorial system), Russian Standard Vodka (story-boarding video clips), MSN ( e-marketing), Orange (mini websites, manager teamboard, manager calendar), Societe Generale (miniwebsite for Somusis offer), Completude, Darqroom (design online application for retouching, selling pictures, creating a website printing pictures), Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création (interactive design), Manoukian (e-commerce), MCUR (interactive design for museum in Reunion island)

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INA.FR, INSTITUT NATIONAL AUDIOVISUEL
DESIGN MANAGEMENT (interactive/ info/ graphic design/brand identity) - PROJECT MANAGER
Permanent from october 2004 to february 2008

Designing the new video portal for french television and radio archives (first version of ina.fr/archivepourtous) and mini websites (Cannes Festival, Presidentielles, Rugby, Mai 68).
Creating the interactive and graphical guidelines for the brand.

1 Benchmarking to write the strategic brand experience recommendations
2 Designing creative ideas for an original information access
3 Creating and conducting UI design briefs, functional specifications
4 Developing fully designed documents for editorial, design, marketing, technical and communication teams
5 Prototyping story-boards, navigation process through information architecture, users scenarii and ergonomy principles
6 Collaborating with creative, editorial, marketing and technical teams to ensure that web designs meet both client and end user needs
7 Designing graphic interfaces
8 Managing technical and webdesign teams
9 Preparing specifications for usability tests
10 Analyse statistics to improve the new version

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ARSENAL-SEBASTOPOL.COM, STRATEGY AND CREATIVE AGENCY
DIGITAL CONSULTANT
Freelance in 2008
> Jean-Paul Gaultier, Fred jewels, Roeder Champagne, Superman and BettyBoop Widget

Benchmarking to write the strategic brand experience recommendations
Creating and conducting UI design briefs, functional specifications

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ORANGE.FR, TELECOM WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS
INTERACTION DESIGNER AND HELP COPYWRITER
Freelance in 2007
Prototyping story-boards, navigation process through information architecture, users scenarii and ergonomy principles
Writing online technical help of the dashboard application
Designing graphic interfaces of the msn portal inside Orange.fr

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MK2, CINEMA PRODUCER, DVD edition...
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT AND DVD PROJECT MANAGER
Internship from 2002 to 2004
>DVD-ROM for an artist (contains a C++ application to create videoclip and video art)
>Miniwebsites for promotion of new DVD packs

Creating and conducting design briefs, functional specifications
Developing fully designed documents for editorial, design, marketing, technical and communication teams
Managing technical and design teams

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PRISMA PRESSE, PRESS GROUP
GRAPHIC LAYOUT
Internship in February 2002

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LAURENT HERSCHTRITT , VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY
GALLERY ASSISTANT
Internship in September 2001 to September 2002

Writing Press Kits,
Valuing photographies,
Organizing fairs and auctions,
Creating exhibitions scenography,

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EDUCATION

ENSAD Paris, ARI POST DIPLOMA with honors
2004
Interactive Research and installations with sensors, webcam, gps techno

GOBELINS, MASTER'S DEGREE WITH HONORS
2002-2004
UCD methodologies: Information design - interactive design - graphic design for web -
Project management methodology
Actionscript and Director programming

UNIVERSITY PARIS 8 WITH HONORS
1999-2002
Undergraduate Studies PHOTOGRAPHY AND NEW MEDIA
1999 Studies PERFORMING ARTS

SECONDARY SCHOOL HUGHES CAPET WITH HONORS
1999
BAC Litterature Confirmed English + Music

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PRO FORMATIONS

INA, 3 DAYS FORMATION
TRAINING COURSE Portrait and little objects photo shooting

ICHIM 05, MASTERCLASS
Paul KAHN : Enterprise Information Architecture for Cultural Institutions

PYRAMYD, 3 DAYS FORMATION
ACCESSIBILITY AND USABILITY PRINCIPLES

SQLI, 3 DAYS FORMATION
E-business and ergonomy

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AWARDS

1 FWA 2008
russianstandardvodka.com
2 CLICS D'OR 2006
ina.fr/archivespourtous (2006 version)
2 Top Talent Award 2004 “Overall Winner &
cross-media category winner"
DVD-MAXI Edelweiss Müller Juicy Panic" project.
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2007
LUCIE AWARDS: HONORS FOR "Portrait" category

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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS GIVEN

PISAF, 10th STUDENT ANIMATION FESTIVAL, SEOUL
Workshop about interaction design
Workshop assistant for the artist Michel Jaffrennou
DIGITAL HOLLYWOOD, LONDON
Conference about to be creative with digital media
TOP TALENT AWARD, VIENNA
Conference about WEB 2.0
MIDEM, CANNES
Conference about to be creative with digital media

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ART ACTIVITY

16 EUROPEAN MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITIONS
7 PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS
PHOTO REPORTS FOR LECOQSPORTIF & PERRIER-JOUET
SELECTION AT "PHOTO D'HOTEL PHOTO D"AUTEUR"
EXHIBITION SCENOGRAPHY
CALVI ON THE ROCKS FESTIVAL EXTERIOR DESIGN
MUSIC COMPOSING

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MAC & PC SKILLS

Managing+ prototyping : Powerpoint, Omnigraffle, Project
Designing: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver
Music composing: Cubase, Peak...

Location

London, United Kingdom

Specialties

  • Interaction Design
  • Design Management
  • Art Direction

Experience

7 years

Education

European Studies in DesignEuropean Studies in Design
Gobelins + Ecole nationale des Arts Décoratifs

Awards

2 Clics d'or 2 Top Talent Awards 1 FWA