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Nicolas Ménard
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Engineering mindset,
user-focused heart

Impact-driven designer solving complex product challenges through user research and engineering craft.

Projects

  • Designing an Energy App Directly in Code project preview
    Design EngineeringEnergy DataAI Workflow

    Designing an Energy App Directly in Code

    Five surfaces of a live French electricity app, designed in the client repository instead of Figma, with recurring interface rules encoded as local checks.

  • Keeping Figma and React in Sync with DESIGN.md project preview
    Design SystemAI + DesignFigma MCP

    Keeping Figma and React in Sync with DESIGN.md

    A token-driven design system built in lockstep across Figma and React, where a single markdown contract lets AI agents do the execution without drift.

  • Redesigning EF Education First's Navigation project preview
    Design SystemUser TestsPrototypingUX/UI

    Redesigning EF Education First's Navigation

    A research-led navigation system validated across five markets that did not ship after leadership priorities changed.

  • Electricity App Design project preview
    UX/UIPrototypingUser Tests

    Electricity App Design

    4 weeks from prototype to production for EV charging planning

  • Redesigning the EV Charging Experience project preview
    UX/UIUser ResearchVisual DesignPrototyping

    Redesigning the EV Charging Experience

    A research-led EV charging redesign that solved real problems, but never shipped

  • Measuring What Matters project preview
    UX/UIUser Research

    Measuring What Matters

    A research-led service redesign focused on the recurring causes of customer support requests.

Nicolas Ménard

About me

I'm a design engineer and product designer with 10+ years shipping products across education, energy, mobility, and AI/robotics, turning complex challenges into meaningful, measurable outcomes.

Most recently, I led a team of designers at EF's Global Creative Studio, shaping the Design System and User Research strategy with product teams at EF. I helped grow the team, improved workflows, and delivered business-critical initiatives across digital and service touchpoints. I thrive at the intersection of product, tech and brand, aligning cross-functional teams, building design and research ops, and driving clarity in complex environments.

Before EF, I designed autonomous valet parking experiences at Stanley Robotics (employee #5, scaled to 70+) and reimagined EV charging flows at Barry Energy and Electromaps based on multi-country user research.

Outside of work, you'll find me climbing mountains, ski touring, and satisfying my never ending curiosity learning new things.

Based in

Zurich, Switzerland

Availability

Available for work

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Nicolas Ménard