Adrien Castelain

Designer in Wellington, New Zealand

Member since October 1, 2019

Adrien is an award-winning designer and digital art director who specializes in strategy, user experience (UX), user interface (UI), brand identity, and interaction design. For the last 15 years, Adrien's been crafting and delivering unique digital experiences for global companies and startups. Adrien's clients hire him for his UX and UI expertise, user-centered approach, strategic mindset, collaborative leadership, creativity, and effectiveness.

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Digital Design

Help Bring Your Goals to Life | Banking App
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- Branding
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Visual Hierarchy
- Design Systems
- Sketch
- InVision
- Adobe Illustrator
- Online Banking
- Investment Banking
- Agile
- Design Sprints
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Atomic Design
- Design Strategy
- Digital Product Design
- Wireframing
- User Flows
- User Onboarding
Rebranding a Real Estate Agency
- Branding
- Logotype
- Guidelines
- User Interface (UI)
- User Experience (UX)
- Responsive Design
- Sketch
- Webflow
- Real Estate
- Property Investment
- Digital Strategy
- Website Redesign
- Responsive UI
AI-powered Business Assistant App
- Mobile Apps
- User Interface (UI)
- User Experience (UX)
- User Flows
- User Onboarding
- AI Design
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Business Applications
- Startups
Sustainable Housing Collaboration Platform
- Logotype
- Brand Guidelines
- Wireframing
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- property development
- Digital Branding
- Sustainability
- Collaboration
- Digital Strategy
- Digital Design
Pay for Fuel From Your Car
- Advertising
- Mobile App Design
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- Branding
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- Advertising Campaigns
- Online Marketing
- User Flows
- User Onboarding
Promotional Traveling Web App
- User Experience (UX)
- Digital Design
- User Interface (UI)
- Creative Thinking
- Responsive Design
- UI Branding
- Digital Advertising
- Digital Experience Design
- Creative Design
- Advertising Campaigns
- Aircraft & Airlines
- Wireframing
- Brand Activation
Collaborative Digital Transformation App
- Digital Product Design
- Design Systems
- UX Flows
- Complex Application User Interfaces (UI)
- Branding
- User-centered Design (UCD)
- User Research
- Digital Design
- Digital Transformation
- Crowdsourcing
- Customer Interviews
- Wireframing
- UX Strategy
- Startups
Kellogg's VR Experience
- VR Interfaces
- User Interface (UI)
- User Experience (UX)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Google Cardboard
- Advertising
- kellogg's
- Retail & Wholesale

Employment

Consultant Digital Designer of UX/UI, Interaction, and Strategy
2016 - PRESENT
Bold&Bald (New Zealand)
- Led UX and UI for an investment banking web app, delivering clean and uncluttered look and feel based on research, creating, testing and enhancing main user-flows (onboarding, investing, withdrawing, customer feedback, and so on), building the design system, working across different teams and in an agile environment, collaborating efficiently with multiple stakeholders.
- Developed creative concepts, UX and UI for innovative AI-powered experience startups, working closely with the production teams and the different stakeholders, using a design-thinking and user-centered approach to develop and improve user-flows and interactions.
- Directed user research, UX/UI and branding for an innovative crowdsourcing map application, running interviews, developing creative concepts, wireframing, prototyping, and testing, scaling the design system, iterating, and rebranding the overarching guidelines.
- Oversaw branding, UX/UI, and launch of an MVP for an online tutoring platform.
- Implemented user research, wireframing, prototyping for and design for complex in-house software, using design thinking process.
- Designed the UX and UI for Air New Zealand's promotional app.
Technologies: Adobe Experience Design (XD), Webflow, MacOS, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Zeplin, Sketch
Senior Digital Designer | Digital Art Director
2013 - 2016
Ogilvy & Mather (New Zealand)
- Led the UX and UI for an innovative VR experience for Kellogg's, from creative concepts and brand guidelines to user experience and production-ready UI.
- Oversaw the art direction and design of various creative digital campaigns for Pernod Ricard.
- Designed the UX and UI for an innovative mobile app for called BPme (an app that allowed you to pay for your fuel from your phone).
- Designed hundreds of social media ads for global companies.
Technologies: MacOS, UXPin, InVision, Adobe Suite
Web Designer | UX/UI Designer
2009 - 2013
Freelance (Global)
- Designed interfaces for a variety of clients.
- Provided digital design services for agencies in France, Spain, Switzerland, and Australia.
- Delivered efficient and responsive support for digital and communication agencies via curated art direction and creative designs.
Technologies: WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe Photoshop
Web Designer
2007 - 2009
Quelinka (Spain)
- Designed and developed the front ends for various companies.
- Provided comprehensive digital solutions focusing on identity, websites, blogs, videos, and mobile applications, and so on.
- Managed accounts and client expectations.
Technologies: Drupal, WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe Photoshop
Multimedia Designer
2006 - 2007
Mouss Production (France)
- Filmed and edited videos for international outdoor sports events (France, Spain, Italy, and Libya).
- Edited videos and implemented special effects and diffusion for web and TV.
- Designed, developed, and maintained a web TV.
Technologies: JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop

Education

Master's Degree in Communication and Marketing Strategy
2004 - 2005
Wesford Grenoble Graduate Business School - Grenoble, France
Postgraduate Diploma in Multimedia Design and Direction
2002 - 2004
Les Gobelins - Annecy, France
Bachelor's Degree in Digital Communication
2000 - 2002
University of Savoie - Chambéry, France

Experience

User Experience (UX)13 years
Digital Design13 years
User Interface (UI)13 years
Branding7 years
Design Leadership7 years
Digital Product Design7 years
User-centered Design (UCD)5 years

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