Hi, I’m Nicolas, a creative User Experience designer with a focus on innovative product conception. I'm currently working for Deeplink.aiHalf Swiss, half English, I am a computer science engineer from EPFL and have a background in research: I hold Ph.D. in Human-Computer interaction on the topic of recommender systems. From 2011 to 2019, I was working at the Swiss IT company ELCA. I spent many years involved in its ticketing spinoff, SecuTix. I designed the omnichannel B2C, B2B and C2C platforms, and became one of the enterprise’s product managers, balancing the clients’ needs with the product’s growth goals, whilst maintaining a cohesive system.My goals are to combine my creativity and product-oriented mind, and reposition the users at the center of the innovation process. Committed and open, I like interacting with people, appreciate team-work and seek to contribute in a challenging and stimulating field. I have deep knowledge regarding Agile, Design Thinking and Lean UX methodologies. My expertise is cross-domain (expert applications, responsive websites, intranets, e-commerce). My specialities are UX, UI, strategy & analysis, user insight & innovation, roadmap scoping. Other topics include Recommender Systems, Collaborative Filtering, Cognitive Science and Sociology. In my spare time, I preside the JVAL Openair music festival, am involved in an organic-local-zero waste food cooperative and have co-founded CoursesVirtuelles.ch running platform.