Loucas Papantoniou

Loucas Papantoniou

Senior Product Designer in Brussels, Belgium, He/Him

About

An empathetic, curious, flâneur of the intranets and daily life.

Jack of all trades, running the gamut of UX design responsibilities. Floating between high-level and in-the-weeds work and working with different disciplines, I like to serve as the glue that helps build sturdier projects.

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
Remote

Worked for the growth team of the Shop app, both on the activation and retention teams. Was responsible for redesigning the onboarding experience, increasing significantly our setup metrics. Helped setup a UI Kit for our emails platform. Contributed in several experiments that helped us learn and move the needle.

2018 — 2021
Mechelen, Belgium

Designing the Rydoo mobile application end-to-end:

  • Gathering user insights
  • Designing and prototyping possible solutions
  • Iterating and fine-tuning with visual design and animations
  • Testing
  • Building and maintaining a design system that help us stay consistent and scale. Designing the Rydoo mobile application end-to-end: - Gathering user insights - Designing and prototyping possible solutions - Iterating and fine-tuning with visual design and animations - Testing - Building and maintaining a design system that help us stay consistent and scale.
2013 — 2018
Brussels, Belgium

Worked for: Proxyclick, Stepstone, Voo, Touring Assurance, Artexis Easyfairs, RTBFL, RTL, SMart, Elium, Debating Europe

Initiatives: UXdesignin.be, Umami Design Talks and Umami Design Bites, workshops for Le Wagon

Making sure we're designing the right product for our users' and clients' needs. In design sprints we: work close together with our client. Frame the problem. Learn about the users needs and wants. Sketch possible solutions. Cherry pick the most promising ones. Prototype them natively in the browser. Test them. Adjust our assumptions and designs. Work on visual design. Test. Adjust. Deliver. Exceed expectations.

2011 — 2013
Brussels, Belgium

Work: UX for Sony Europe, Content Strategy for the European Council, Interaction design for a leading company in broadcasting equipment (EVS), Exploring Human-Machine Interfaces for emergency dispatching.

User experience and usability consultant. User research, personas, scenarios, mental models, customer journeys, wireframes, prototyping in Axure, and usability tests.

Education

2007 — 2009
Delft, the Netherlands

The master of Strategic Product Design approaches design from an holistic and multi-disciplinary point of view capturing all aspects of a product’s requirements (consumer needs, marketing and business plans, design language, brand identity etc.), choosing a strategic product direction and translating into proposals for product concepts.

Teams

Past
Shop