Nathalie de Vallière
Lead Product Designer in London
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About
Currently at technology-driven design studio Bakken & Baeck in London.
Projects
Defining, designing and building systems end-to-end at Bakken & Baeck for tracing plastic in a circular infrastructure with Aion.
Led project at Bakken & Baeck to help the Norwegian fashion start-up Fjong streamline their business and enable their international expansion to Denmark. Oversaw design and build of internal tools for warehouse and partner management. Created assets, designed and oversaw build for marketing sites. Created wireframes and initial concepts for a customer-facing app.
At Bakken & Baeck worked with spatial computing team to create designs and prototypes for an AR app that democratises interior design. Created extension of existing IKEA SKAPA design system to suit AR environment.
Created winning concept for a re-design pitch of the Stink Films website.
Designed and oversaw development of portfolio website.
Designed ecommerce platform for clothing brand ATID by Alexander Taylor.
Created concepts for a redesign of the digital platform of It's Nice That to showcase the best of the creative industry.
Created concepts in C4D for teaser page and designed website for Odunpazarı Modern Museum in Turkey.
Created concepts, 3D motion work and designed the website for the exclusive secret sale site of one of the world's most famous designer shoe brands.
Created seasonal interactive cursor to add element of playfulness. Created visual assets for cursor from sketches from the designer Manolo Blahnik himself.
Speaking
Presented a case study of work I led at Bakken & Baeck to help the next generation of creatives understand what a design career can look like.
Side Projects
Seen is an internal initiative that began a year and a half ago, against the backdrop of pandemic-triggered racism against Asians.
Through a collection of personal conversations between Asian practitioners within BB and beyond, the project explores the interplay between race, ethnicity, and our creative practices and careers in the design industry.
Built and designed an experimental project with Twomuch studio and Pitch studio that presents a time capsule of the innermost thoughts of young people in a digitally-driven world, experienced through an interactive website and installation.
Built and designed the degree show website with Twomuch studio of graduating class of BA graphic and communication design at Central Saint Martins.
Created concepts for branding using prototypes done in code, Unity3D, C4D and AfterEffects.
Features
“How do we make it cuter?”: Seen uses soft Y2K aesthetics to welcome users into an ongoing conversation about Asian identity in the creative industry.
IKEA has taken its Place app and pimped it to create IKEA Studio, a much-needed overhaul of the furniture brand's augmented reality offering.
A new publication that proves print and digital don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Work Experience
Education
Graduated with First Class Honours
6 month Erasmus exchange