Hi! My name is abien,

I am looking for a junior designer position!

FI am a french heavy rock and crumble lover,recently graduated as a product designer/managerfrom l’École de design Nantes Atlantique and IEMN-IAE,mainly specialized in industrial/product design based on human experiencebut to be honest with you,

Use concerns, usability of materials, making a concept real, and communicating it.

Seven month working on industrial product development through a human-centered methodology, design engineers approach

and prototyping.

A six month experience through a professional methodology, team

development and managing projects with clients until industrialisation.

User-centered reflection design based on social innovations, services

and health-care issues.End of studies project about

every day diabetes treatment.

Company development formation taking in account economical aspects in order to lead

a project toward the market.Product Design as a two year option.

Industrial design assistant at Bluelarix Designworks

Industrial design assistant at Charlwood Design.

sept 2012 - Jan 2013 (Melbourne, Australia)

July 2014 - Jan 2015 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

L’École de design Nantes Atlantique 2010 - 2012 (Nantes, France)

L’École de design Nantes Atlantique 2012 - 2014 (Nantes, France)

IEMN-IAE 2013 - 2014 (Nantes, France)

Responsible Innovationsas my Master Degree option.

Management and Strategyas my second Master Degree.

I believe that design is a tool making particular part of your life easier. Through a user-centered understanding,this process can be applied to consumer products as well as medical ones.

This specific approach makes then products better adapted and integrated to every day habits.The idea is then to improve the intimate relationship between objects and users.

And so ?

or how to improve meal time autonomy for people in retired houses.

an easy and healthyway of transportation.

simplify and improve atechnical movement.

a new way ofliving diabetes.

Olé

Bearing tool

Cargobike

Naja

an easy and healthyway of transportation.Cargobike

The bike is nowadays considered as new way of mobility.During a six month internship at Charlwood Design in Melbourne, Australia, I have had the occasion to work on such a subject.

Cargocycles, a renting bike company in Melbourne, asked us to think about a new kind of bike. It had to consider professional and leisure habits in the city.

Here is my first professional project that I could manage, from the strategy level to concept design. It has been supervised by one of my colleague Dean Beanstead.

2013 - Charlwood Design - Melbourne, Australia.

from a client requestto first strategic orientations.Cargobike

First difficulties I have been through was to understand clearly what this project was about. A bike that could fit a Melbourne postman as well as a family visiting the city. What do they need? How much space do they require? Many questions that led to a market overview and to a first strategic orientation.

?What is it

going to do?

Who is it made for?

What would they carry?

Where is going to be used?

How two differentsuses will be combined?

What kind of professionnal

would use this bikeand why?

Why would it be better for them to

use a bike?

This overview allowed me then to analyse different way of carrying either people or goods. It was also about understanding specific shape languages that a particular use is speaking. From this step, my supervisor and I chose to go for a robust, performance and unique bike.

ROBUST PERFORMANCE UNIQUE

robustfunction

performance

trendy

Nihola Family

Gazelle Caddy

Fietfabriek BF 18

Fietsfabriek CargoBike 995

Urban Arrow

Fietsfabriek Bakfiets Classic

Smith & co. Long John

Bullitt

CETMA

a visual birth out of words.Cargobike

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The main goal of this project was to create a new frame using existing wheels and technical parts. Once ergonomic dimensions were defined and fixed, sketches began. Different kinds of inspirations were used always keeping the strategy in mind. Shapes, technical aspects, every element were drawn before to get to 3D development.

Strong lines

easy to assemble

avoid sharp anglesfor a better comfort?

final concept result.Cargobike

2020

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805

24 INCH RIM26 INCH RIM

750

1100 870

This bike has been developed to be as light as possible thanks to a tubular structure. But in order to make it even more practical, we decided with the client to think about a new way of sending the full bike. It ended on a complete disassembled product. Every element fit in a regular size box making easier the delivery service. The new owner needs then to assemble it by himself.

I quit the project when I left the company. Here are some visuals about the last version I have developped.

Solidworks - Keyshot - Photoshop

or how to improve meal time autonomyfor people in retired house.Olé

Eating autonomously is an important every day pleasure lost with ages. On the occasion of a one week personal project workshop with FHF (French Hospital Federation), the problematic has been asked. The goal was to find a simple and easy solutions thanks to a process of understanding by experiencing personaly.

2013 - Nantes - L’École de design Nantes Atlantique

dive in the subjectand understand from inside.Olé

tableware

canteen wise

personal

A benchmark was my first step to oversee the subject. I realized that escaping this medical atmosphere for a short moment is a true important aspect.

But to consider every user, the reflexion had to take care also about the staff using those tools everyday.

medical equipment

But how to get as close as a real experience?An empathy experimentation has been realized. I blocked few of my articulations with cardboard to feel every hard movements. Everything gets difficult, grabbing a glass or even a fork, A very simple conclusion came up, eating by using one hand would make this moment way easier.

Analyse the empathy experienceuntil ideations and modeling.Olé

Cross the observation stepto create ideas.

After this inner-vision experience, observations led to different answers. At this stage, drawings and models were important to visualize answers and test them, but it wasn’t easy to get to a proper answer yet. Models and sharing

knowledge helped me centering my development to reach a final concept.

strong identity

how to deal withdraft angles?

better understandingwith asymetric shape

adapted spoonwhat kind of interaction?

A two tools set improving the abilityof having food by yourself.Olé

This plate concept use a simple way of grabbing the food. Everything is about a small gesture that children do, pushing everything with their fingers.

Here, fingers are transformed into this adapted spoon and important edge. The principle is to push the food against this side area perfectlystabilized by rubber part. One hand is then needed.

This project has been exposed at Salon de l’Autonomie et de la Santé (Health and autonomy Fair) in Paris in 2013.

Solidworks - Keyshot - Illustrator

simplify and improve atechnical movement.Bearing tool

Releasing a bearing from a wheel is quite a complex task usually badly realised. Zeleritas, a new sport brand company asked the agency, Bluelarix Designworks, to think about a new way of realising the inside bearing.

Working in a team with Eelco Siebring, we developed this new tool for roller and skate users.

2014 - Amsterdam - Bluelarix Designworks

simplify and improve atechnical movement.

a technicalergonomy.Bearing tool

When I started to work on this project, the technical aspect and way of working were already defined. I then began to explore the ergonomic aspect and how to make this product completely communicative about its function.

squeezing? what would be the more convenient shape? recognize the top pushing area

after ergonomy, shapes.

how to see the target from above?

from the prototypeto the market.Bearing tool

Once we decided a final version of this product with the client, the project has been prototyped to test it. Place it on the wheel helped by the tube, push the top-front area, and squeeze. Quick and easy.

It was a very good and complete subject to work on taking in account teamwork, modeling, sketching, prototyping until final production.

(3D realized by Eelco Siebring, Rendering and pictures by myself)

Keyshot - Photoshop - Illustrator

a new way of living diabetes.Naja

Diabetes is nowadays a major hidden problem.During one year, I have worked on this particular issue as my end of studies project. Personally working witha French association of diabetic persons (AFD 44),I developed this prospective concept with people involved in the problem. The goal, reach an answer improving their treatment and everyday life.

2013/2014 - Nantes - L’École de design Nantes Atlantique

integrate it, dig it, experience it, live it.Naja

As a designer but also as a human being, I first explored this unknown subject. First difficulties, understand diabetes. But how? I had the opportunity to work with patients and doctors. They litteraly teached me. At this right moment I realized such a project would be more about a human experience than anything else.

Empathy is the ultimate tool to feel the problem, to see it, to live it. During one month, I have acted almost like a diabetic person. I quickly understood that diabetes was not just about the treatment but mostly about its way of living and its everyday reflex.

glycemy checker

insulin pen

one useneedles.

stinger forblood dropes

stripes forblood samples

ref lexion throughshared knowledge.Naja

Even if this project is of course about medication, I choosed to orientate my reflexion around a concept that could be way more accepted for new patients (like I was during my experience). But I pushed this step forward by exposing those ideas directly to patients and conferences. Feedbacks that I received helped me to guide my reflexion in order to obtain a concept suiting them.

plug smartphone?

easy access totreatment

play with interactions

opening quickly

opening quickly

interchangeable inhaledinsuline compartments

customizable fabric part

Inhalation lid

bracelet housing structure

batteries

lid

computer plug

wireless transmitter

calculating system

blood sugar sensor

a new wayof living diabetes.Naja

The word Naja comes from a family snake venerated by ancien egypt civilization. It symbolizes revival and eternity.

Here, Naja is a connected bracelet using existing inhaled insulin recharges technology and painless micro-waves glycemia

sensor. It transforms the type 1 diabetes treatment in an easier and more acceptable way for everyday life.

Those two integrated technologies allow to remove every single day injections and stings. It makes the treatment less scary than

the current one, changing completely the vision of diabetes.

Solidworks - Keyshot - Photoshop

a self-careproduct.Naja

Autonomy and control for the user were the guide lines of this project. Even if the product itself allows to see diabetes differently, a related application gives a complete new overview. You can then see your blood sugar instantaneously and being aware of any hypo or hyperglycemia coming. This is a new way of treating diabetes.

This project is prospective, but it is for me a way of working I would love to keep in every projects. Recently, Naja has been exhibitied in «Design l’expo» in Nantes. I hope this project would put foreground the problematic of diabetes and every chronical diseases.

home communityand daily news

advice of treatmentfrom the app depending on results.

find a pharmacyfor recharginginsulin containers

alert signal of a high or low bloodsugar level.

settings forbloodsugar alerts

and find a doctornear your area.bloodsugar

results summary.

personnaldoctorinformations

Indesign - Illustrator - photoshop

I feel gladyou read this.

Thank you for watchingand looking forwardto hearing from you.

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